Precarious Intimacies
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4212-1 (ISBN)
Drawing on and responding to the writings of theorists such as Judith Butler, Sarah Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, and Lisa Lowe, this book proposes the notion of “precarious intimacies” to navigate a dilemma: how to recognize, affirm, and value love, touch, and care while challenging the racialized and gendered politics in which they are embedded.
Twenty-first-century Europe is undergoing dramatic political and economic transformations that produce new forms of transnational contact as well as new regimes of exclusion and economic precarity. These political and economic shifts both circumscribe and enable new possibilities for intimacy. Many European films of the last two decades depict experiences of political and economic vulnerability in narratives of precarious intimacies. In these films, stories of intimacy, sex, love, and friendship are embedded in violence and exclusion, but, as Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber show, the politics of touch and connection also offers avenues to theorize forms of attention and affection that challenge exclusive notions of race, citizenship, and belonging.
Precarious Intimacies examines the aesthetic strategies that respond to this tension and proposes a politics of interpretation that identifies the potential and possibility of intimacy.
Maria Stehle is an associate professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Ghetto Voices in Contemporary Germany: Textscapes, Filmscapes, Soundscapes and a coauthor of Awkward Politics: The Technologies of Popfeminist Activism. Beverly Weber is an associate professor of German studies and Jewish studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Violence and Gender in the “New” Europe: Islam in German Culture.
Preface and Acknoledgements: Intellectual Intimacies
1. Introduction: Politics of Intimacy in Contemporary European Cinema
2. Touching Journeys: Precarious Intimacies and Narratives of Non-Arrival
3. Touch as Narrative Disruption: Race, Gender, and Queering Intimacy
4. Religion, Sexuality, and Precarious Intimacy
5. Commodified Intimacy in a Globalizing Europe
6. White Fragility and The White Gaze: Race, Gender, and Neoliberalism
7. Conclusion: Precarious Intimacies, Collaborations, and Solidarities
Filmography
Bibliography
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.09.2020 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 36 black & white images |
| Verlagsort | Evanston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 633 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8101-4212-0 / 0810142120 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8101-4212-1 / 9780810142121 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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