Full Description
This book explores the critical significance of the visual arts to transnational feminist thought and activism.
This first volume in Marsha Meskimmon's powerful and timely Trilogy focuses on some of the central political challenges of our era, including war, migration, ecological destruction, sexual violence and the return of neo-nationalisms. It argues that transnational feminisms and the arts can play a pivotal role in forging the solidarities and epistemic communities needed to create social, economic and ecological justice on a world scale. Transnational feminisms and the arts provide a vital space for knowing, imagining and inhabiting - earth-wide and otherwise. The chapters in this book each take their lead from a current matter of political significance that is central to transnational feminist activist organizing and has been explored through the arts in ways that permit dialogues across geopolitical borders to take place.
Including examples of artwork in full colour, this is essential reading for students and researchers in art history, theory and practice, visual culture studies, feminism and gender studies, political theory and cultural geography.
The Transnational Feminisms and the Arts Trilogy:
Transnational Feminisms, Transversal Politics and Art: Entanglements and Intersections
Transnational Feminisms and Art's Transhemispheric Histories: Ecologies and Genealogies
Transnational Feminisms and Posthuman Aesthetics: Resonance and Riffing
Contents
Introduction
Knowing, Imagining and Inhabiting: Earth-wide and Otherwise
Chapter One
Post-Truth, Compelling Fiction
Chapter Two
Citizens, Migrants and Worldmaking Denizens
Chapter Three
Critical Ecofeminism and Ecological Thinking
Chapter Four
Sexual Violence, Structural Silence and Transversal Solidarity
Chapter Five
Imagining Peace: Art, Politics and Irenic Attention
Concluding...
Contingent Thoughts
