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On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adler, Ṭal, Author.
- Cibic, Jasmina, Author.
- Flohr, Zsuzsi, Author.
- Freudmann, Eduard, Author.
- Junghaus, Tímea, Author.
- Krameritsch, Jakob, Author.
- Martinon, Jean-Paul, Author.
- Mooshammer, Helge, Author.
- Mörtenböck, Peter, Author.
- Ngwane, Trevor, Author.
- Schneider, Karin, Author.
- Sonti, Primrose, Author.
- Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, Author.
- Das Kollektiv, Author.
- Working Group Four Faces of Omarska, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geopolitics.
- Historiography.
- Imperialism.
- Postcolonialism.
- Colonialism.
- Genre:
- Discursive works
- Interviews
- Critical Writing.
- Essay Collection.
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified], Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2016.
- [Place of publication not identified], Sternberg Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "On Productive Shame, Reconciliation, and Agency prompts a unique crossdisciplinary inquiry into the productive potential of the affect of shame. This book contests the ontological understanding of shame and the psychoanalytical interpretation of it based on personal traumatic experiences linked to lack, loss, memory repression, and absence. Rather, the book builds on complex issues (initially proposed by Paul Gilroy) that concern the coming to terms with a grim colonial and imperial past: How can one deal with the personal and collective memories of "paralyzing guilt" after dreadful atrocities and genocides? How can such negative experiences be transformed into "productive shame" (not only for the perpetrators but also for the victims and witnesses)? This collection of essays, discussions, and interviews reflects on the intersection of the historicity, materiality, and structures behind culturally constructed race and racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Romaism, and queer shame across different disciplines, fields, and theories (for example, in philosophy, art and art history, visual culture, architecture, curating, postcolonial history, gender and queer studies). Various case studies and artistic projects employing collaborative and participatory research methods are analyzed as practices that empower the process of turning shame into productive agency. The ensuing role of productive shame is to prevent the recurrence of the institutional structures, patterns, and events that are responsible and constitutive of racism, and has been contextualized in recent debates on political responsibility and reconciliation in Europe and Africa."-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- Standard Copyright.
- Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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