The Power of Vulnerability
Mobilising Affect in Feminist, Queer and Anti-Racist Media Cultures
Published on 21. December 2018
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-1-5261-3309-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. -- .
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
14 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-3309-0 (9781526133090)
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Anu Koivunen | Katariina Kyroelae | Ingrid Ryberg
The Power of Vulnerability
Mobilising Affect in Feminist, Queer and Anti-Racist Media Cultures
E-Book
12/2018
1st Edition
Manchester University Press
€0.00
Available for download
Anu Koivunen | Katariina Kyroelae | Ingrid Ryberg
The Power of Vulnerability
Mobilising Affect in Feminist, Queer and Anti-Racist Media Cultures
E-Book
12/2018
1st Edition
Manchester University Press
€7.99
Available for download
Persons
Anu Koivunen is Professor of Cinema Studies (Department of Media Studies) at Stockholm University, Sweden
Katariina Kyroelae is Lecturer in Gender Studies at Abo Akademi University, Finland
Ingrid Ryberg is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Gothenburg University, Sweden -- .
Katariina Kyroelae is Lecturer in Gender Studies at Abo Akademi University, Finland
Ingrid Ryberg is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Gothenburg University, Sweden -- .
Content
List of figures
1 Vulnerability as a political language - Anu Koivunen, Katariina Kyroelae and Ingrid Ryberg
Part I: Vulnerability as a battleground
2 Negotiating vulnerability in the trigger warning debates - Katariina Kyroelae
3 Trigger happy: from content warning to censorship - Jack Halberstam
4 Feminist hurt/feminism hurts - Sara Ahmed
Part II: Vulnerability and visibility
5 Little Pink: white fragility and black social death - Ylva Habel
6 Visibility and vulnerability: negotiating transgender representation and encounters with translatina worlds in The Salt Mines and Wildness - Laura Horak
7 White vulnerability and the politics of reproduction in Top of the Lake: China Girl - Johanna Gondouin, Suruchi Thapar-Bjoerkert 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: Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves as a reparative fantasy - Anu Koivunen
Index -- .
1 Vulnerability as a political language - Anu Koivunen, Katariina Kyroelae and Ingrid Ryberg
Part I: Vulnerability as a battleground
2 Negotiating vulnerability in the trigger warning debates - Katariina Kyroelae
3 Trigger happy: from content warning to censorship - Jack Halberstam
4 Feminist hurt/feminism hurts - Sara Ahmed
Part II: Vulnerability and visibility
5 Little Pink: white fragility and black social death - Ylva Habel
6 Visibility and vulnerability: negotiating transgender representation and encounters with translatina worlds in The Salt Mines and Wildness - Laura Horak
7 White vulnerability and the politics of reproduction in Top of the Lake: China Girl - Johanna Gondouin, Suruchi Thapar-Bjoerkert 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: Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves as a reparative fantasy - Anu Koivunen
Index -- .