Contingency plans

An Introduction

Bibliographic Data

ID4517062
AuthorsVivian L Huang (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Williams College, Cambridge, MA, USA, corresponding author), Summer Kim Lee (University of California System)
Year2020
Volume30
Issue1
Pages1-19
Publication date2020-01-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWomen & Performance a journal of feminist theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0740-770X • E-ISSN: 1748-5819
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0740770x.2020.1801968
OpenAlexW3088626810
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited22

This introduction offers contingency as a framework for Asian American and minoritarian world-making in the face of ongoing crisis, precarity, and violence. During the time of a pandemic, the Movement for Black Lives, the uprisings calling for the abolition of police and prisons, and a public reckoning with the safety, support, and “diversity” of staff, students, and faculty within the academy, how have contingency plans become critical, necessary sites for building feminist and queer of color affiliations and coalitions beyond the scope of institutionality? How is Asian American performance the site where such contingencies and their emergent relations are acted out and made possible? Contingency plans are made to be used during the perceived exceptionality of a crisis and so rarely used. Yet in the current moment, they have come to constitute everyday life, not as solutions, but as the place from which we express dissatisfaction and a desire for something more. What relations can and has contingency given form, dimension, and weight to, across differential, entangled histories of crisis, empire, and capital? Here, we offer frameworks for this issue's navigation of the promise of institutionality, disciplinary formations, and the forging of connections through practices of relationality, care, and interdisciplinarity

Contingency · Contingency plan · Criminology · Diversity (politics) · Epistemology · Management · Political science · Public relations · Queer · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society