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Object Lessons de Robyn Wiegman

Object Lessons

Autor Robyn Wiegman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 ian 2012

În volumul Object Lessons, Robyn Wiegman propune o analiză metacritică de o rigoare remarcabilă asupra disciplinelor academice articulate în jurul identității. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autoarea nu se mulțumește să apere sau să respingă aceste domenii, ci investighează însăși dorința politică ce alimentează dezbaterile actuale. Considerăm că această lucrare reprezintă o evoluție necesară față de textele anterioare ale autoarei, precum American Anatomies sau Women's Studies on Its Own. Dacă în lucrările precedente Wiegman se concentra pe teoretizarea rasei și a genului sau pe instituționalizarea studiilor de gen, în Object Lessons ea face un pas în spate pentru a chestiona credința tacită că o teorie „mai bună” va genera automat o transformare socială progresistă.

Comparabil cu Identity Politics Reconsidered de L. Alcoff în ceea ce privește rigoarea analizei, volumul de față este actualizat pentru tensiunile contemporane din mediul academic, unde activismul și cercetarea se intersectează adesea conflictual. Structura cărții este organizată temeinic, debutând cu o examinare a conceptului de „progres” în studiile de gen și continuând cu disjuncțiile dintre feminism și teoria queer. Capitolele dedicate studiilor despre albitate și pursuit-ului americanist de „non-complicitate globală” dezvăluie paradoxurile profunde ale reprezentării politice în mediul universitar. Recomandăm acest volum pentru felul în care demontează mecanismele de conformitate intelectuală pe care, paradoxal, le pot impune tocmai câmpurile critice ce își propun eliberarea subiecților lor.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822351603
ISBN-10: 0822351609
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 154 x 234 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Duke University Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Object Lessons cercetătorilor și studenților din științele sociale care doresc să înțeleagă limitele instituționale ale activismului academic. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care activează în studii de gen, etnice sau culturale, oferind un instrumentar critic pentru a evalua dacă propriile practici teoretice produc într-adevăr schimbarea vizată sau dacă alimentează doar o „vertij” a criticii fără finalitate practică.

Despre autor

Robyn Wiegman este profesor asociat de studii de gen și director al programului Margaret Taylor Smith la Duke University. Cu o carieră dedicată analizei politicilor instituționale din SUA și studiilor de identitate, Wiegman s-a impus ca o voce critică influentă. Printre lucrările sale de referință se numără American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender și volumul colectiv The Futures of American Studies, ambele publicate sub egida Duke University Press. Expertiza sa îmbină teoria literară cu sociologia culturii, oferind perspective profunde asupra modului în care identitatea este construită și negociată în spațiul academic contemporan.

Descriere scurtă

No concept has been more central to the emergence and evolution of identity studies than social justice. In historical and theoretical accounts, it crystallizes the progressive politics that have shaped the academic study of race, gender, and sexuality. Yet few scholars have deliberated directly on the political agency that notions of justice confer on critical practice. In Object Lessons, Robyn Wiegman contemplates this lack of attention, offering the first sustained inquiry into the political desire that galvanizes identity fields. In each chapter, she examines a key debate by considering the political aspirations that shape it. Addressing Women's Studies, she traces the ways that "gender" promises to overcome the exclusions of "women." Turning to Ethnic Studies, she examines the deconstruction of "whiteness" as an antiracist methodology. As she explores American Studies, she links internationalization to the broader quest for non-complicity in contemporary criticism. Her analysis of Queer Studies demonstrates how the commitment to anti-normativity normalizes the field. In the penultimate chapter, Wiegman addresses intersectionality as the most coveted theoretical approach to political resolution in all of these fields.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: How to Read This Book 1 1. Doing Justice with Objects: Or, the "Progress" of Gender 36 2. Telling Time: When Feminism and Queer Theory Diverge 91 3. The Political Conscious: Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity 137 4. Refusing Identification: Americanist Pursuits of Global Noncomplicity 197 5. Critical Kinship: Universal Aspirations and Intersectional Judgments 239 6. The Vertigo of Critique: Rethinking Heteronormativity 301 Bibliography 345 Index 391

Recenzii

“[Wiegman’s] book left me reeling in the best possible way, precisely because it focuses in on the affective life of our critical impulses. Wiegman peels back the veneer on our investments in a variety of politics — feminist, anti-racist, imperialist, queer— leaving us to confront why we show up to struggle with our work. This book gave me the gift of recognizing conflict and incommensurability as powerful sites from which to continue to passionately invest in politics.”—Naomi Greyser, Feminist Studies

“This brilliant, commodious book gives us a name for that fast-moving conceptual traffic arrayed across the academic galaxy from the 1970s to the present; as a strategy for naming, Object Lessons brings about ‘identity knowledges’ as a rethought object of desire and destination, its political commitments pursued to the bone, in the immediacy of its institutional arrangements. The reader will not want to miss Robyn Wiegman in this quite stunning and masterful outcome.” Hortense Spillers, Vanderbilt University

“This book is as incisive in its articulation of the stakes involved in post–Civil Rights academic field formations as it is responsive to the affective investments shaping specific fields' modes of self-governance and self-reinvention. What do we want from identity knowledges—and what do they offer us? In the incongruent spaces opened up by these questions, and against the non-synchronized discourses marked by political obligations, institutional structures, and methodological ambitions, Robyn Wiegman narrates what she calls object lessons with inimitable intensity, agility, and imagination. If visionary thinking about identity studies is an art, she has given us a brilliant master-class performance.” Rey Chow, author of Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture


"[Wiegman's] book left me reeling in the best possible way, precisely because it focuses in on the affective life of our critical impulses. Wiegman peels back the veneer on our investments in a variety of politics - feminist, anti-racist, imperialist, queer - leaving us to confront why we show up to struggle with our work. This book gave me the gift of recognizing conflict and incommensurability as powerful sites from which to continue to passionately invest in politics." - Naomi Greyser, Feminist Studies "This brilliant, commodious book gives us a name for that fast-moving conceptual traffic arrayed across the academic galaxy from the 1970s to the present; as a strategy for naming, Object Lessons brings about 'identity knowledges' as a rethought object of desire and destination, its political commitments pursued to the bone, in the immediacy of its institutional arrangements. The reader will not want to miss Robyn Wiegman in this quite stunning and masterful outcome." Hortense Spillers, Vanderbilt University "This book is as incisive in its articulation of the stakes involved in post-Civil Rights academic field formations as it is responsive to the affective investments shaping specific fields' modes of self-governance and self-reinvention. What do we want from identity knowledges - and what do they offer us? In the incongruent spaces opened up by these questions, and against the non-synchronized discourses marked by political obligations, institutional structures, and methodological ambitions, Robyn Wiegman narrates what she calls object lessons with inimitable intensity, agility, and imagination. If visionary thinking about identity studies is an art, she has given us a brilliant master-class performance." Rey Chow, author of Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking about Capture

Descriere

Examining debates in interdisciplinary identity studies, Robyn Wiegman finds the repeated assumption that a better critical theory will produce a better political outcome. She studies debates in Women’s Studies, American Studies, Queer Theory and Whiteness studies, especially at points when the key terms changed, as happened when Women’s Studies was superseded by Gender Studies. While scholars each time imagined that a new configuration of the field would be more politically effective, instead the field reshapes itself around the new terms in ways that are not as different as hoped. Her metacritical analysis is sympathetic to the political desires she traces, but also clear about the limitations of this means of producing change.