Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times [Paperback]

This book is a provocative new study of global feminist activism that opposes neoliberal regimes across several sites including Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the United States. The feminist performative acts featured in the book contest the aggressive unravelling of collectively won gains in gender, sexual and racial equality, the appearance of new planes of discrimination, and the social consequences of political economies based on free market ideology. The investigations of affect theory follow the circulation of intensities  of political impingements on bodies, subjective and symbolic violence, and the shock of dispossession  within and beyond individuals to the social and political sphere. Affect is a helpful matrix for discussing the volatile interactivity between performer and spectator, whether live or technologically mediated. Contending that there is no activism without affect, the collection brings back to the table the activist and hopeful potential of feminism.

Introduction.- Part I. Affect, Performance and the Neoliberal State.- Chapter 1. The Affective Performance of State Love; Sue-Ellen Case.- Chapter 2. Not Now, Not Ever; Denise Varney.- Chapter 3. Performing Sovereignty against Jurisprudential Death in an Australian State of Exception; Sandra Durso.- Chapter 4. Imagining Love in a Neoliberal Japan; Nobuko Anan.- Chapter 5. Nisti St?rks Affective Spaces in For Sweden  With the Times (F?r Sverige i tiden!); Christina Svens.- Part II. Violence and Performance Activism.- Chapter 6. Raging On; Diana Taylor.- Chapter 7. The Limits of Witness; Candice Amich.- Chapter 8. Protesting violence; Bishnupriya Dutt.- Chapter 9. My Cunt, My Rules!; Tiina Rosenberg.- Part III. Global Spectacles.- Chapter 10. Mapping Abramovi, From Affect to Emotion; Marla Carlson.- Chapter 11. Virtuosity: Danclóz