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This book is a provocative new study of global feminist activism
that opposes neoliberal regimes across several sites including
Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United
States. The feminist performative acts featured in the book contest
the aggressive unravelling of collectively won gains in gender,
sexual and racial equality, the appearance of new planes of
discrimination, and the social consequences of political economies
based on free market ideology. The investigations of affect theory
follow the circulation of intensities - of political impingements
on bodies, subjective and symbolic violence, and the shock of
dispossession - within and beyond individuals to the social and
political sphere. Affect is a helpful matrix for discussing the
volatile interactivity between performer and spectator, whether
live or technologically mediated. Contending that there is no
activism without affect, the collection brings back to the table
the activist and hopeful potential of feminism.
This book is a provocative new study of global feminist activism
that opposes neoliberal regimes across several sites including
Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United
States. The feminist performative acts featured in the book contest
the aggressive unravelling of collectively won gains in gender,
sexual and racial equality, the appearance of new planes of
discrimination, and the social consequences of political economies
based on free market ideology. The investigations of affect theory
follow the circulation of intensities - of political impingements
on bodies, subjective and symbolic violence, and the shock of
dispossession - within and beyond individuals to the social and
political sphere. Affect is a helpful matrix for discussing the
volatile interactivity between performer and spectator, whether
live or technologically mediated. Contending that there is no
activism without affect, the collection brings back to the table
the activist and hopeful potential of feminism.
Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas
explores how performance art and poetry convey utopian desires even
in the bleakest of times. Candice Amich argues that utopian longing
in the neoliberal Americas paradoxically arises from the material
conditions of socioeconomic crisis. Working across national,
linguistic, and generic boundaries, Amich identifies new political
and affective modes of reception in her examination of resistant
art forms. She locates texts in the activist struggles of the
Global South, where neoliberal extraction and exploitation most
palpably reanimate the colonial and imperial legacies of earlier
stages of capitalism. The poets and artists surveyed in Precarious
Forms enact gestures of solidarity and mutual care at sites of
neoliberal dispossession. In her analysis of poems, body art, and
multimedia installations that illuminate the persistence of a
radical utopian imaginary in the Americas, Amich engages critical
debates in performance studies, Latin American cultural studies,
literature, and art history.
Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas
explores how performance art and poetry convey utopian desires even
in the bleakest of times. Candice Amich argues that utopian longing
in the neoliberal Americas paradoxically arises from the material
conditions of socioeconomic crisis. Working across national,
linguistic, and generic boundaries, Amich identifies new political
and affective modes of reception in her examination of resistant
art forms. She locates texts in the activist struggles of the
Global South, where neoliberal extraction and exploitation most
palpably reanimate the colonial and imperial legacies of earlier
stages of capitalism. The poets and artists surveyed in Precarious
Forms enact gestures of solidarity and mutual care at sites of
neoliberal dispossession. In her analysis of poems, body art, and
multimedia installations that illuminate the persistence of a
radical utopian imaginary in the Americas, Amich engages critical
debates in performance studies, Latin American cultural studies,
literature, and art history.
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