The power of vulnerability: Mobilising affect in feminist, queer and anti-racist media cultures
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Kyrölä, Katariina (Hrsg.) / Ryberg, Ingrid (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-3309-0
- EAN: 9781526133090
- Produktnummer: 27611466
- Verlag: Manchester Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.2 cm 568 g
- Gewicht: 568
Über den Autor
Anu Koivunen is Professor of Cinema Studies (Department of Media Studies) at Stockholm University, SwedenKatariina Kyrölä is Lecturer in Gender Studies at Åbo Akademi University, FinlandIngrid Ryberg is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Gothenburg University, Sweden
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