Book Review: The Power of Vulnerability. Mobilising Affect in Feminist, Queer and Anti-Racist Media Cultures edited by Anu Koivunen, Katariina Kyrölä and Ingrid Ryberg, Manchester University Press, 2018, 246 pages. ISBN: 978-1-5261-3309-0

Verena Kettner

doi:10.33134/rds.343

Abstract

Book Review: The Power of Vulnerability. Mobilising Affect in Feminist, Queer and Anti-Racist Media Cultures edited by Anu Koivunen, Katariina Kyrölä and Ingrid Ryberg, Manchester University Press, 2018, 246 pages. ISBN: 978-1-5261-3309-0

Highlights

Mobilising Affect in Feminist, Queer and Anti-Racist Media Cultures edited by Anu Koivunen, Katariina Kyrölä and Ingrid Ryberg, Manchester University Press, 2018, 246 pages
All the contributions have an affect theoretical,feminist and partly anti-racist perspective on vulnerability, showing that vulnerability can be more than weakness and disadvantage in political cultures
The contributions of Katariina Kyrölä, Jack Halberstam, and Sara Ahmed deal with vulnerability in recent trigger warning debates in different contexts and the empowering as well as repressive potentials of the different handlings of vulnerability

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Introduction

Mobilising Affect in Feminist, Queer and Anti-Racist Media Cultures’, edited by Anu Koivunen, Katariina Kyrölä and Ingrid Ryberg, is a very diverse and theoretically loaded contribution to current (queer-)feminist and anti-racist debates about vulnerability in medial contexts. The issue consists, together with the editors’ introduction, of three sections with different content focus: (1) vulnerability in current feminist debates, such as trigger warnings or #MeToo, (2) the positive and negative effects of vulnerability’s visibility, and (3) vulnerability in cultural political contexts.

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