Gender and Postsecularity in Visual Culture and Knowledge Production
A…Series, Vol. 27
Boka En, Sabine Grenz, Doris Guth, Fatma Uysal (Eds.)
Over the last three decades, religious practices and belongings have gained increased visibility across the globe, turning secularity and its relationship with religion into subjects of intense interdisciplinary and international debate. Previously marginalized in gender studies, the secular and the religious now attract growing interest in academic and activist feminism, prompting a critical reflection on secularity’s emancipatory potential. This publication aims to foster this interest by providing a platform for interdisciplinary and transregional discussions on the complex dynamics of secularity, religiosity, and gender, as well as new approaches to explore these relationships.
The contributions examine the entanglements and boundaries of religions and secularities in everyday life, art, culture, and knowledge production. By presenting relevant case studies, this book underscores an understanding of religion as both a category of knowledge and a marker of identity.
ISBN: 978-1-915609-43-4
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Price: 22.00 €
Standpoint Autotheory
A…Series, Vol. 28
Ana de Almeida, Mariel Rodríguez (Eds.)
Standpoint Autotheory encompasses a multitude of manifestations of radically self-reflexive research attitudes. It traces research based artistic practices through twelve contributions that propose a performative integration of the personal within the production of theory and explore the entanglements of subjectivity with criticality aimed at social transformation by questioning dominant epistemologies.
The positions assembled in the book are permeated by different modes of thinking and practice such as autoethnography, practices of the self, auto-historia teoría, standpoint theories, strong objectivity and situated knowledge, self-authority, narrativity and storytelling, radical positioning, performative philosophy, autofiction, thinking-feeling, and other methods that, through the interrogation of embodied experiences, illuminate the connections between the personal and the political, as well as the individual and the communal.
ISBN: 978-1-915609-64-9
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Price: 24.00 €
Sexual Dissidences: Frau Diamanda's Catalan Scenes, Travesti Politics of Resistance, and Anti-canonical Knowledge
A…Series, Vol. 29
Oke Fijal, Marina Gržinić, Sen Reyes, Melina Vesely (Eds.)
Despite its long history, the unique Latin American phenomenon of sexual identity, travesti, has been largely overlooked in Western European discourse. Travesti brings to life systems of knowledge and the attitude of autonomy that occupies a distinct position within the clash of class, gender, and race. The development of long-term forms of ephemerality sheds light on processes of travesti anti-capitalist revolt, as well as the capacity of travesti to exploit and/or migrate themselves in order to make life possible and worth living, and the dynamics of practices and reflections to emerge anew. Despite the necropolitical grip on their lives, the swaying of travesti bodies is both witty and powerful. They themselves have taken detailed steps to find a way to exist and build communities.
Drawing together numerous writers, voices, performers, artists, and historians, this book is not merely about travesti, it is travesti.
ISBN: 978-1-915609-78-6
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Price: 24.00 €
