Dissident Acts – serie
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38 produkter
Performances of Spiral Time
Häftad, 2025
288 kr
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In Performances of Spiral Time, famed Afro-Brazilian thinker Leda Maria Martins theorizes forms of African and African diasporic temporality, corporeality, and space that exist apart from and critique Eurocentric notions of linear time. Martins introduces the notion of “spiral time”—curved and …
Disappearing Rooms
The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law
Häftad, 2023
251 kr
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In Disappearing Rooms Michelle CastaÑeda lays bare the criminalization of race enacted every day in US immigration courts and detention centers. She uses a performance studies perspective to show how the theatrical concept of mise-en-scÈne offers new insights about immigration law and the absurdist …
Extractive Zone
Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives
Inbunden, 2017
1166 kr
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In The Extractive Zone Macarena GÓmez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. The work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists in spaces GÓmez-Barris labels extractive zones-majority …
Extractive Zone
Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives
Häftad, 2017
297 kr
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In The Extractive Zone Macarena GÓmez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. The work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists in spaces GÓmez-Barris labels extractive zones-majority …
Abject Performances
Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production
Inbunden, 2018
1717 kr
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In Abject Performances Leticia Alvarado draws out the irreverent, disruptive aesthetic strategies used by Latino artists and cultural producers who shun standards of respectability that are typically used to conjure concrete minority identities. In place of works imbued with pride, redemption, or …
Abject Performances
Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production
Häftad, 2018
413 kr
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In Abject Performances Leticia Alvarado draws out the irreverent, disruptive aesthetic strategies used by Latino artists and cultural producers who shun standards of respectability that are typically used to conjure concrete minority identities. In place of works imbued with pride, redemption, or …
¡Presente!
The Politics of Presence
Av Diana Taylor
Inbunden, 2020
1253 kr
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In ¡Presente! Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done. As much an act, a word, an attitude, a theoretical intervention, and a performance pedagogy, Taylor maps ¡presente! at work in scenarios ranging from …
¡Presente!
The Politics of Presence
Av Diana Taylor
Häftad, 2020
340 kr
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In ¡Presente! Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done. As much an act, a word, an attitude, a theoretical intervention, and a performance pedagogy, Taylor maps ¡presente! at work in scenarios ranging from …
Cry of the Senses
Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics
Inbunden, 2020
1646 kr
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In The Cry of the Senses, Ren Ellis Neyra examines the imaginative possibility for sound and poetics to foster new modes of sensorial solidarity in the Caribbean Americas. Weaving together the black radical tradition with Caribbean and Latinx performance, cinema, music, and literature, Ellis Neyra …
Another Aesthetics Is Possible
Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War
Inbunden, 2021
1265 kr
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In Another Aesthetics Is Possible Jennifer Ponce de LeÓn examines the roles that art can play in the collective labor of creating and defending another social reality. Focusing on artists and art collectives in Argentina, Mexico, and the United States, Ponce de LeÓn shows how experimental practices …
Cry of the Senses
Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics
Häftad, 2020
402 kr
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In The Cry of the Senses, Ren Ellis Neyra examines the imaginative possibility for sound and poetics to foster new modes of sensorial solidarity in the Caribbean Americas. Weaving together the black radical tradition with Caribbean and Latinx performance, cinema, music, and literature, Ellis Neyra …
Another Aesthetics Is Possible
Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War
Häftad, 2021
326 kr
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In Another Aesthetics Is Possible Jennifer Ponce de LeÓn examines the roles that art can play in the collective labor of creating and defending another social reality. Focusing on artists and art collectives in Argentina, Mexico, and the United States, Ponce de LeÓn shows how experimental practices …
Unsettled Borders
The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land
Inbunden, 2022
1161 kr
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In Unsettled Borders Felicity Amaya Schaeffer examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache, Tohono O’odham, and Maya who fight to protect their sacred land. Schaeffer traces the scientific and technological development of militarized border …
Planetary Longings
Inbunden, 2022
1253 kr
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In Planetary Longings eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first mark a turning point in the human and planetary condition. Examining the forces of modernity, neoliberalism, coloniality, and indigeneity …
Puta Life
Seeing Latinas, Working Sex
Inbunden, 2023
1166 kr
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In Puta Life, Juana MarÍa RodrÍguez probes the ways that sexual labor and Latina sexuality become visual phenomena. Drawing on state archives, illustrated biographies, documentary films, photojournalistic essays, graphic novels, and digital spaces, she focuses on the figure of the puta-the whore, …
Disappearing Rooms
The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law
Inbunden, 2023
983 kr
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In Disappearing Rooms Michelle CastaÑeda lays bare the criminalization of race enacted every day in US immigration courts and detention centers. She uses a performance studies perspective to show how the theatrical concept of mise-en-scÈne offers new insights about immigration law and the absurdist …
Force of Witness
Contra Feminicide
Inbunden, 2023
1133 kr
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In The Force of Witness Rosa-Linda Fregoso examines the contra feminicide movement in Mexico and other feminist efforts to eradicate gender violence. Drawing on interviews, art, documentaries, and her years of activism, Fregoso traces the micro and macro scales of misogyny and the patterns of state …
Unsettled Borders
The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land
Häftad, 2022
288 kr
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In Unsettled Borders Felicity Amaya Schaeffer examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache, Tohono O’odham, and Maya who fight to protect their sacred land. Schaeffer traces the scientific and technological development of militarized border …
Planetary Longings
Häftad, 2022
340 kr
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In Planetary Longings eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first mark a turning point in the human and planetary condition. Examining the forces of modernity, neoliberalism, coloniality, and indigeneity …
Puta Life
Seeing Latinas, Working Sex
Häftad, 2023
297 kr
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In Puta Life, Juana MarÍa RodrÍguez probes the ways that sexual labor and Latina sexuality become visual phenomena. Drawing on state archives, illustrated biographies, documentary films, photojournalistic essays, graphic novels, and digital spaces, she focuses on the figure of the puta-the whore, …
Force of Witness
Contra Feminicide
Häftad, 2023
272 kr
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In The Force of Witness Rosa-Linda Fregoso examines the contra feminicide movement in Mexico and other feminist efforts to eradicate gender violence. Drawing on interviews, art, documentaries, and her years of activism, Fregoso traces the micro and macro scales of misogyny and the patterns of state …
Visual Disobedience
Art and Decoloniality in Central America
Inbunden, 2024
1617 kr
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In Visual Disobedience, Kency Cornejo traces the emergence of new artistic strategies for Indigenous, feminist, and anticarceral resistance in the wake of torture, disappearance, killings, and US-funded civil wars in Central America. Cornejo reveals a direct line from US intervention to current …
Rio As Method
Collective Resistance for a New Generation
Av Paul Amar
Inbunden, 2024
1301 kr
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Rio as Method provides a new set of lenses for apprehending and transforming the world at critical junctures. Challenging trends that position Global South scholars as research informants or objects, this Rio de Janeiro-based network of scholars, activists, attorneys, and political leaders center …
Hemispheric Blackface
Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas
Inbunden, 2025
1195 kr
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In Hemispheric Blackface, Danielle Roper examines blackface performance and its relationship to twentieth- and twenty-first-century nationalist fictions of mestizaje, creole nationalism, and other versions of postracialism in the Americas. Challenging both the dominance of the US minstrel tradition …
Queer Traffic
Sex, Panic, Free Trade
Inbunden, 2025
1414 kr
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In Queer Traffic, Jennifer Tyburczy traces how sexual dissidents across the Mexico-Canada-US borderlands transport the objects and experiences that nourish their sexual and social lives. She situates the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as a pivot point in the formation of panics aimed …
Performances of Spiral Time
Inbunden, 2025
1175 kr
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In Performances of Spiral Time, famed Afro-Brazilian thinker Leda Maria Martins theorizes forms of African and African diasporic temporality, corporeality, and space that exist apart from and critique Eurocentric notions of linear time. Martins introduces the notion of “spiral time” - curved and …
Acoustic Colonialism
Acts of Mapuche Interference
Inbunden, 2025
1358 kr
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In Acoustic Colonialism, Luis E. CÁrcamo-Huechante examines the role of sound in Chilean and Mapuche cultural production over the last two centuries. CÁrcamo-Huechante theorizes sound as a territory of racial, patriarchal, and colonial hegemony as well as of Mapuche struggle, agency, and response …
Visual Disobedience
Art and Decoloniality in Central America
Häftad, 2024
321 kr
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In Visual Disobedience, Kency Cornejo traces the emergence of new artistic strategies for Indigenous, feminist, and anticarceral resistance in the wake of torture, disappearance, killings, and US-funded civil wars in Central America. Cornejo reveals a direct line from US intervention to current …
Rio As Method
Collective Resistance for a New Generation
Av Paul Amar
Häftad, 2024
345 kr
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Rio as Method provides a new set of lenses for apprehending and transforming the world at critical junctures. Challenging trends that position Global South scholars as research informants or objects, this Rio de Janeiro-based network of scholars, activists, attorneys, and political leaders center …
Hemispheric Blackface
Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas
Häftad, 2025
297 kr
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In Hemispheric Blackface, Danielle Roper examines blackface performance and its relationship to twentieth- and twenty-first-century nationalist fictions of mestizaje, creole nationalism, and other versions of postracialism in the Americas. Challenging both the dominance of the US minstrel tradition …
