Politics of containment

Disruptions and interventions

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ID12292995
AutoresKumarini Silva (Department of Communication, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen30
Número4
Páginas562-573
Fecha de publicación2022-06-21
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGender Place & Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0966-369X • E-ISSN: 1360-0524
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0966369x.2022.2089095
OpenAlexW4283218795
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas13

In this essay I consider three interrelated aspects of comfort feminism, to consider and unpack its potential use beyond the critique of comfort feminism itself. First, I approach comfort feminism as always intimately implicated in additional affective labor for non-white bodies. I then identify these non-white bodies as geo-bodies: geographically produced subjects/objects. It is a body that is always produced as a disruption to, or an impingement on, the geography and politics of an implicit normative whiteness that is both overt and covert, even in more progressive spaces, including feminist spaces. Ultimately, I consider what pleasure there might be in disrupting the normative despite the (triple) labor geo-bodies do, especially in contemporary politics. To do this, I turn to two separate, but interrelated incidents—one public, the other personal—to extrapolate my approach. In engaging with these examples, I consider the notion of discontainment—where the unhappiness (discontentment) from the disciplining (containment) results in the refusal of both—as a form of radical possibility for the geo-body, especially when occupying spaces—political, geographic, raced, and gendered—not intended for them. By focusing on the interrelated aspects of comfort feminism, my hope is that these negotiations between comfort/discomfort and containment/discontainment may potentially open interesting ways to rethink the relationship between space, race, affect, and politics

Aesthetics · Covert · Feminism · Negotiation · Normative · Pleasure · Political science · Politics · Queer · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology

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