Feminist and Queer Imaginaries of Hope in a Turbulent Era.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liinason, Mia.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

In a turbulent era series.

In a turbulent era series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hope.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.

Summary:

In a world characterized by democratic decline, this book explores the ways in which struggles for feminist, queer and trans rights build imaginaries and shared hopes.Drawing on global and local ethnographic studies, contributors examine protests against the rise of ultra-conservative, right-wing, anti-gender and anti-feminist actors.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

List of contributors

List of figures

Chapter 1: Introduction: feminist and queer imaginaries of hope in a turbulent era

PART I: Feminist and queer possibilities of hope vis-à-vis neoliberal optimism

Chapter 2: The dialectics of hope/lessness in feminist academia: from storytelling to nurturing 'quiet hope'

Chapter 3: We are all activists now: activist-washing of labor and marketization of hope in Zalando's #activists of optimism campaign

Chapter 4: Resistance to anti-gender movements: deep coalitions, a possibility of hope?

Chapter 5: An examination of Turkish law regarding LGBTIQ+ rights: the pursuit of judicial hope in an atmosphere of non-optimistic hope

PART II: Discourses and practices of hope in movements

Chapter 6: 'Now, I have a mind of my own, I decide who to love': a raging insistence on queer hope, love and liveability

Chapter 7: Resistance through counter-archives: lubunya digital platforms and imaginaries of radical hope

Chapter 8: Collective hope, spade work, and freedom fertilizing against despair and defeat: diasporic Iranian leftist-feminist activist mobilizations during and after the Jina Revolts

Chapter 9: Europe between denial and guilt: the potentiality of dysphoric hope

Chapter 10: Finding solidarity through feeling: affective negotiations in organizing for feminist activism in Turkey

Chapter 11: "Already emancipated"? Queer refugee women in the Netherlands, dirty labor and the paradox of respectability

PART III: Cultural and artistic practices of feminist and queer hope

Chapter 12: Beyond boundaries: queer screens, drag dreams, and the hopeful revolutions of Filipino resistance

Chapter 13: In search of utopia: feeling through lesbian desires and discomforts at sapphic strip night.

Chapter 14: "Reclaiming the artifact that we have become!" Performing politics of change in Delaine Le Bas's Romani Embassy

Chapter 15: Transcending dominant depictions of transness in contemporary television: trans fluidity in RuPaul's Drag Race and Euphoria

Chapter 16: Narrating resilience, resisting erasure: feminist and LGBTI+ storytelling in Turkey

Chapter 17: Queer kinship, solidarity and queerfulness: three sources of hope in LGBTIAQ+ fiction

Chapter 18: Epilogue: conversation on hope and despair - with Hannah Proctor, author of Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-03-539928-8

1-03-533684-7

OCLC:

1587647239