Red Chidgey
Biographic Data
| ID | 274750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Red Chidgey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Red |
| FAMILY NAME | Chidgey |
| SIGNATURE | CHIDGEY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9921-1187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism
Is memory studies experiencing an activist turn? What discourses and practices surround such a pronouncement, and what forms of forgetting might such an assertion usher in? This commentary explores recent claim-making around memory studies’ activist turn and seeks to understand its provocations and critiques. It anchors these discourses within a wider constellation of scholar-activism, paying particular attention to citational politics and memory…
How to Curate a ‘Living Archive’: The Restlessness of Activist Time and Labour
PostfeminismTM: Celebrity feminism, branding and the performance of activist capital
This article contributes to postfeminist media debates by interrogating an emerging configuration of celebrity feminism; one in which authenticity, entrepreneurial subjectivities and intersectionality mark the uneasy contours of a new political subject. Coining the term “activist capital”, this paper moves beyond the impasse of celebrity feminism debates (where branding and commerce = bad, grassroots organising = good) to establish the uneven con…
Feminist Afterlives: Assemblage Memory in Activist Times
This book interrogates why feminist memories matter. Feminist Afterlives explores how the images, ideas and feelings of past liberation struggles become freshly available and transmissible. In doing so, Red Chidgey examines how popular feminist memories travel as digital and material resources across protest, heritage, media, commercial and governmental sites, and in connection with the concerns and conditions of the present. Central case studies…
Reassess Your Weapons: The Making of Feminist Memory in Young Women's Zines
This article argues that young women's zines—non-commercial, small-scale magazines published with few resources—are sites of feminist memory work in which the personal and political are fused. Building on previous scholarship in ‘cultural memory’, ‘feminist cultural memory’ and ‘memory work’, this article offers a revised concept of ‘feminist memory work’ to refer to a set of intentional and unintentional narrative and material practices upholdin…
Abortion Democracy: An Interview with Sarah Diehl
Complicated Inheritance: Sistershow (1973–1974) and the Queering of Feminism
In complicating feminist inheritance, this article disrupts teleological narratives of ‘second’ and ‘third wave’ feminist activism by locating ‘queer tendencies’—often rooted within contemporary frameworks of Western feminisms—within the British Women's Liberation Movement (WLM). Understanding ‘queer tendencies’ allows a reappraisal of feminist strategies that have operated outside state formations; those feminisms that use disruptive cultural po…
Rumours from around the bloc: Gossip, rhizomatic media, and the Plotki Femzine
In the past two decades, an increasing number of young women have taken the tools of media production into their own hands; feminist zines have evolved into a medium for transnational dialogue, community building, and networking. In focusing on the Plotki Femzine (2006, 2007), a Central and Eastern European (CEE) feminist print and online zine project, we use the theoretical framework of “rhizomatic media” to problematize existing scholarship on …
Free, Trade: Distribution Economies in Feminist Zine Networks
Zines are considered “micro media”—self‐managed publications that carry few or no advertisements and are often distributed without an international standard serial number (although this is not a strict requirement, especially as many publications are increasingly blurring the boundaries between zine and magazine). Some are published with little intention to circulate—a couple of copies printed from home computers and passed on to friends may meet…
PostfeminismTM: Celebrity feminism, branding and the performance of activist capital
This article contributes to postfeminist media debates by interrogating an emerging configuration of celebrity feminism; one in which authenticity, entrepreneurial subjectivities and intersectionality mark the uneasy contours of a new political subject. Coining the term “activist capital”, this paper moves beyond the impasse of celebrity feminism debates (where branding and commerce = bad, grassroots organising = good) to establish the uneven con…
Feminist Afterlives: Assemblage Memory in Activist Times
This book interrogates why feminist memories matter. Feminist Afterlives explores how the images, ideas and feelings of past liberation struggles become freshly available and transmissible. In doing so, Red Chidgey examines how popular feminist memories travel as digital and material resources across protest, heritage, media, commercial and governmental sites, and in connection with the concerns and conditions of the present. Central case studies…
Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism
Is memory studies experiencing an activist turn? What discourses and practices surround such a pronouncement, and what forms of forgetting might such an assertion usher in? This commentary explores recent claim-making around memory studies’ activist turn and seeks to understand its provocations and critiques. It anchors these discourses within a wider constellation of scholar-activism, paying particular attention to citational politics and memory…
Complicated Inheritance: Sistershow (1973–1974) and the Queering of Feminism
In complicating feminist inheritance, this article disrupts teleological narratives of ‘second’ and ‘third wave’ feminist activism by locating ‘queer tendencies’—often rooted within contemporary frameworks of Western feminisms—within the British Women's Liberation Movement (WLM). Understanding ‘queer tendencies’ allows a reappraisal of feminist strategies that have operated outside state formations; those feminisms that use disruptive cultural po…
Abortion Democracy: An Interview with Sarah Diehl
Rumours from around the bloc: Gossip, rhizomatic media, and the Plotki Femzine
In the past two decades, an increasing number of young women have taken the tools of media production into their own hands; feminist zines have evolved into a medium for transnational dialogue, community building, and networking. In focusing on the Plotki Femzine (2006, 2007), a Central and Eastern European (CEE) feminist print and online zine project, we use the theoretical framework of “rhizomatic media” to problematize existing scholarship on …
Free, Trade: Distribution Economies in Feminist Zine Networks
Zines are considered “micro media”—self‐managed publications that carry few or no advertisements and are often distributed without an international standard serial number (although this is not a strict requirement, especially as many publications are increasingly blurring the boundaries between zine and magazine). Some are published with little intention to circulate—a couple of copies printed from home computers and passed on to friends may meet…
Complicated Inheritance: Sistershow (1973–1974) and the Queering of Feminism
In complicating feminist inheritance, this article disrupts teleological narratives of ‘second’ and ‘third wave’ feminist activism by locating ‘queer tendencies’—often rooted within contemporary frameworks of Western feminisms—within the British Women's Liberation Movement (WLM). Understanding ‘queer tendencies’ allows a reappraisal of feminist strategies that have operated outside state formations; those feminisms that use disruptive cultural po…
Abortion Democracy: An Interview with Sarah Diehl
Reassess Your Weapons: The Making of Feminist Memory in Young Women's Zines
This article argues that young women's zines—non-commercial, small-scale magazines published with few resources—are sites of feminist memory work in which the personal and political are fused. Building on previous scholarship in ‘cultural memory’, ‘feminist cultural memory’ and ‘memory work’, this article offers a revised concept of ‘feminist memory work’ to refer to a set of intentional and unintentional narrative and material practices upholdin…
Feminist Afterlives: Assemblage Memory in Activist Times
This book interrogates why feminist memories matter. Feminist Afterlives explores how the images, ideas and feelings of past liberation struggles become freshly available and transmissible. In doing so, Red Chidgey examines how popular feminist memories travel as digital and material resources across protest, heritage, media, commercial and governmental sites, and in connection with the concerns and conditions of the present. Central case studies…
How to Curate a ‘Living Archive’: The Restlessness of Activist Time and Labour
PostfeminismTM: Celebrity feminism, branding and the performance of activist capital
This article contributes to postfeminist media debates by interrogating an emerging configuration of celebrity feminism; one in which authenticity, entrepreneurial subjectivities and intersectionality mark the uneasy contours of a new political subject. Coining the term “activist capital”, this paper moves beyond the impasse of celebrity feminism debates (where branding and commerce = bad, grassroots organising = good) to establish the uneven con…
Activist turns: The (in)compatibility of scholarship and transformative activism
Is memory studies experiencing an activist turn? What discourses and practices surround such a pronouncement, and what forms of forgetting might such an assertion usher in? This commentary explores recent claim-making around memory studies’ activist turn and seeks to understand its provocations and critiques. It anchors these discourses within a wider constellation of scholar-activism, paying particular attention to citational politics and memory…
Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Feminism (3 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works)