The power of vulnerability : mobilising affect in feminist, queer and anti-racist media cultures / edited by Anu Koivunen, Katariina Kyrölä, Ingrid Ryberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koivunen, Anu, editor.

Kyrölä, Katariina, editor.

Ryberg, Ingrid, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vulnerability (Personality trait).

Affect (Psychology).

Power (Social sciences).

Minorities in mass media.

Women in mass media.

Sexual minorities in mass media.

Minorities--Social conditions.

Minorities.

LGBTQ+ people in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii,246 pages) : illustrations (black and white); digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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. 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-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: Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves as a reparative fantasy / Anu Koivunen

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781526133113

1526133113

OCLC:

1085908892

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access