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This book analyses rape culture through the lens of the 'me too'
era. Drawing feminist theory into conversation with peace studies
and improvisation theory, it advocates for peace- building
opportunities to transform culture and for the improvisatory
resources of 'culture- jamming' as a mechanism to dismantle rape
culture. The book's key argument is that cultural attitudes and
behaviours can be shifted through the introduction of disrupting
narratives, so each chapter ends with a 'culture- jammed' re-
telling of a traditional fairy tale. Chapter 1 traces an overlap of
feminist theory and peace studies, arguing that rape culture is
most fruitfully understood through the concept of 'structural
violence.' Chapter 2 investigates the gender scripts that rape
culture produces, considering a female counterpart to the concept
of 'toxic masculinity': 'complicit femininity.' Chapter 3 offers
analysis of non- consensual sex and a history of consent education,
culminating in an argument that we need to move beyond consent to
conceptualise a robust 'respectful mutuality.' Chapter 4 's history
of sexual harassment in the workplace and the rise of #metoo argues
that its global manifestations are a powerful peace- building
initiative. Chapter 5 situates 'me too' within a culture- jamming
history, using improvisation theory to show how this movement's
potential can shape cultural reconstruction. This is a provocative
and interventionist addition to feminist theory scholarship and is
suitable for researchers and students in women's and gender
studies, feminist theory, sociology and peace studies.
This book analyses rape culture through the lens of the 'me too'
era. Drawing feminist theory into conversation with peace studies
and improvisation theory, it advocates for peace- building
opportunities to transform culture and for the improvisatory
resources of 'culture- jamming' as a mechanism to dismantle rape
culture. The book's key argument is that cultural attitudes and
behaviours can be shifted through the introduction of disrupting
narratives, so each chapter ends with a 'culture- jammed' re-
telling of a traditional fairy tale. Chapter 1 traces an overlap of
feminist theory and peace studies, arguing that rape culture is
most fruitfully understood through the concept of 'structural
violence.' Chapter 2 investigates the gender scripts that rape
culture produces, considering a female counterpart to the concept
of 'toxic masculinity': 'complicit femininity.' Chapter 3 offers
analysis of non- consensual sex and a history of consent education,
culminating in an argument that we need to move beyond consent to
conceptualise a robust 'respectful mutuality.' Chapter 4 's history
of sexual harassment in the workplace and the rise of #metoo argues
that its global manifestations are a powerful peace- building
initiative. Chapter 5 situates 'me too' within a culture- jamming
history, using improvisation theory to show how this movement's
potential can shape cultural reconstruction. This is a provocative
and interventionist addition to feminist theory scholarship and is
suitable for researchers and students in women's and gender
studies, feminist theory, sociology and peace studies.
Fanon and the Decolonization of Philosophy explores the range of
ways in which Frantz Fanon's decolonization theory can reveal new
answers to perennial philosophical questions and new paths to
social justice. The aim is to show not just that Fanon's thought
remains philosophically relevant, but that it is relevant to an
even wider range of philosophical issues than has previously been
realized. The essays in this book are written by both renowned
Fanon scholars and new scholars who are emerging as experts in
aspects of Fanonian thought as diverse as humanistic psychiatry,
the colonial roots of racial violence and marginalization, and
decolonizing possibilities in law, academia, and tourism. In
addition to examining philosophical concerns that arise from
political decolonization movements, many of the essays turn to the
discipline of philosophy itself and take up the challenge of
suggesting ways that philosophy might liberate itself from colonial
and colonizing assumptions. This collection will be useful to those
interested in political theory, feminist theory, existentialism,
phenomenology, Africana studies, and Caribbean philosophy. Its
Fanon-inspired vision of social justice is endorsed in the foreword
by his daughter, Mireille Fanon-Mendes France, a noted human rights
defender in the French-speaking world."
Who is white, and why should we care? There was a time when the
immigrants of New York City’s Lower East Side—the Irish, the
Poles, the Italians, the Russian Jews—were not white, but now
“they” are. There was a time when the French-speaking working
classes of Quebec were told to “speak white,” that is, to speak
English. Whiteness is an allegorical category before it is
demographic. This volume gathers together some of the most
influential scholars of privilege and marginalization in
philosophy, sociology, economics, psychology, literature, and
history to examine the idea of whiteness. Drawing from their
diverse racial backgrounds and national origins, these scholars
weave their theoretical insights into essays critically informed by
personal narrative. This approach, known as “braided
narrative,” animates the work of award-winning author Eula Biss.
Moved by Biss’s fresh and incisive analysis, the editors have
assembled some of the most creative voices in this dialogue, coming
together across the disciplines. Along with the editors, the
contributors are Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Nyla R. Branscombe,
Drucilla Cornell, Lewis R. Gordon, Paget Henry, Ernest-Marie
Mbonda, Peggy McIntosh, Mark McMorris, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Victor
Ray, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Louise Seamster, Tracie L. Stewart,
George Yancy, and Heidi A. Zetzer.
An Ethics of Improvisation takes up the puzzles and lessons of
improvised music in order to theorize the building blocks of a
politically just society. The investigation of what politics can
learn from the people who perform and listen to musical
improvisation begins with an examination of current social
discourses about "the political" and an account of what social
justice could look like. From there, the book considers what a
politically just society's obligations are to people who do not
want to be part of the political community, establishing respect
for difference as a fundamental principle of social interaction.
What this respect for difference entails when applied to questions
of the aesthetic value of music is aesthetic pluralism, the book
argues. Improvised jazz, in particular, embodies different values
than those of the Western classical tradition, and must be judged
on its own terms if it is to be respected. Having established the
need for aesthetic pluralism in order to respect the diversity of
musical traditions, the argument turns back to political theory,
and considers what distinct resources improvisation theory-the
theorizing of the social context in which musical improvisation
takes place-has to offer established political philosophy
discourses of deliberative democracy and the politics of
recognition-already themselves grounded in a respect for
difference. This strand of the argument takes up the challenge,
familiar to peace studies, of creative ways to rebuild fractured
civil societies. Throughout all of these intertwined discussions,
various behaviors, practices, and value-commitments are identified
as constituent parts of the "ethics of improvisation" that is
articulated in the final chapter as the strategy through which
individuals can collaboratively build responsive democratic
communities.
Who is white, and why should we care? There was a time when the
immigrants of New York City’s Lower East Side—the Irish, the
Poles, the Italians, the Russian Jews—were not white, but now
“they” are. There was a time when the French-speaking working
classes of Quebec were told to “speak white,” that is, to speak
English. Whiteness is an allegorical category before it is
demographic. This volume gathers together some of the most
influential scholars of privilege and marginalization in
philosophy, sociology, economics, psychology, literature, and
history to examine the idea of whiteness. Drawing from their
diverse racial backgrounds and national origins, these scholars
weave their theoretical insights into essays critically informed by
personal narrative. This approach, known as “braided
narrative,” animates the work of award-winning author Eula Biss.
Moved by Biss’s fresh and incisive analysis, the editors have
assembled some of the most creative voices in this dialogue, coming
together across the disciplines. Along with the editors, the
contributors are Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Nyla R. Branscombe,
Drucilla Cornell, Lewis R. Gordon, Paget Henry, Ernest-Marie
Mbonda, Peggy McIntosh, Mark McMorris, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Victor
Ray, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Louise Seamster, Tracie L. Stewart,
George Yancy, and Heidi A. Zetzer.
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