Abstract

ABSTRACT Sally R. Munt is best known for her work on shame, especially her book Queer Attachments: The Cultural Politics of Shame, published in 2007. Noticing that shame is a particularly relational affect Munt’s work focuses in on and explores the politics of shame. What happens when we refuse to acknowledge shame’s role in the production and creation of political subjects? Can bypassed shame be found at the root of fascist political movements? Might shame be used as a tool to further emancipatory political projects? Given our historical moment, these questions feel especially timely and their exploration existentially essential. That is what is why we are delighted that Sally Munt agreed to a dialogue in the form of an interview with the editors of this issue, Daniel Goldin and Allison Merrick. What follows is their e-mail exchanges.

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