UID:
almahu_9948236336002882
Format:
1 online resource (xii,246 pages) :
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illustrations (black and white); digital file(s).
Edition:
Open Access Edition.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2018. Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
ISBN:
9781526133113
Content:
This book investigates the new language of vulnerability that has emerged in feminist, queer and antiracist debates on media, taking a particular interest in the historical legacies and contemporary forms and effects of this language. Contributors such as Jack Halberstam and Sara Ahmed examine how vulnerability has become a battleground, how affect and vulnerability have turned into a politicised currency both for addressing and obscuring asymmetries of power, and how media activism and state policies address so-called vulnerable groups. Taking on such heated topics as trigger warnings and diversity policies, the book will be of interest to scholars and students in media and cultural studies, affect theory, gender studies, queer theory and critical race studies.
Content:
"In popular campaigns such as #MeToo and #TimesUp, questions of power and agency are increasingly discussed as issues of injury or empowerment. Vulnerability has emerged as a key concept in these discussions and their academic analyses.This book investigates the historical legacies and contemporary forms and effects of the language of vulnerability. In today’s media culture, traumatic first-person or group narratives have popular currency, mobilising affect, from compassion to rage, in order to gain visibility and political advantage. Vulnerability is seen as a kind of capital; not only as victimhood but also as a resource that can be adopted for various purposes. Contributors to the book, including Jack Halberstam and Sara Ahmed, examine how affect and vulnerability not only reveal but also obscure asymmetries of power, how media activism and state policies address so-called vulnerable groups, and how we determine whose vulnerability counts as socially and culturally legible.Providing keen insights into the political potential as well as the constraints of vulnerability for feminist, queer and anti-racist criticism, the book will be of interest to scholars and students in media and cultural studies, affect theory, gender studies, queer theory and critical race studies." -- Back cover.
Note:
Made available via: manchesterhive.
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MUP 2020 titles.
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This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
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List of figures -- 1. Vulnerability as a political language / Anu Koivunen, Katariina Kyrölä and Ingrid Ryberg -- Part I: Vulnerability as a battleground -- 2. Negotiating vulnerability in the trigger warning debates / Katariina Kyrölä -- 3. Trigger happy: from content warning to censorship / Jack Halberstam -- 4. Feminist hurt/feminism hurts / Sara Ahmed -- Part II: Vulnerability and visibility -- 5.〈i〉Little Pink〈/i〉: white fragility and black social death / Ylva Habel -- 6. Visibility and vulnerability: negotiating transgender representation and encounters with translatina worlds in 〈i〉The Salt Mines〈/i〉 and 〈i〉Wildness〈/i〉 / Laura Horak -- 7. White vulnerability and the politics of reproduction in 〈i〉Top of the Lake: China Girl〈/i〉 / Johanna Gondouin, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert and Ingrid Ryberg -- 8. Spectacularly wounded: white male vulnerability as heterosexual fantasy / Susanna Paasonen -- Part III: Vulnerability and cultural policy -- 9. The invulnerable body of colour: the failure and success of a Swedish Film Diversity initiative / Mara Lee Gerden -- 10. Naming, shaming, framing? The ambivalence of queer visibility in audio-visual archives / Dagmar Brunow -- 11. Abortion prevention: lesbian citizenship and filmmaking in Sweden in the 1970s / Ingrid Ryberg -- 12. The caring nation: 〈i〉Don’t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves〈/i〉 as a reparative fantasy / Anu Koivunen -- Index.
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Also available in print form.
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Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web.
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader (latest version recommended), Internet Explorer or other browser (latest version recommended).
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In English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Koivunen, Anu. The power of vulnerability: mobilising affect in feminist, queer and anti-racist media cultures, Manchester, UK. : Manchester University Press, 2018, ISBN 9781526133090
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7765/9781526133113
URL:
https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526133113/9781526133113.xml
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526133113
URL:
https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526133113/9781526133113.xml
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526133113
