Commitment and Complicity in Cultural Theory and Practice

✍ Scribed by Begum Ozden Firat, Sarah de Mul, Sonja van Wichelen (editors)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 208
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In this book, an international line-up of scholars examines the role of the intellectual in the twenty-first century, looking at the gap between contemporary cultural theory and cultural practice, and asking whether knowledge and methodologies in the humanities can intervene in everyday politics and vice-versa.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
1 Introduction: Commitment and Complicity......Page 12
Part I: Rethinking Commitment......Page 32
2 Commitment as a Nonperformative......Page 34
3 Commitment or Commitment-Kitsch? Rethinking the ‘Woman Question’, Agency, and Feminist Politics......Page 56
4 ‘Human’ in the Age of Disposable People: The Ambiguous Import of Kinship and Education in Blind Shaft......Page 75
Part II: Commitment and Complicity in the Production of Knowledge......Page 90
5 The Middle East and the Disciplinary (Re)Production of Knowledge......Page 92
6 Empty Versatility and the Art of the Circular Reading......Page 113
7 The Commitment to Face......Page 131
Part III: Putting Complicity to Work......Page 148
8 The Necessity of ‘Terror’......Page 150
9 Putting Complicity to Work for Accountability: An Australian Case Study......Page 165
10 Layers of Labor in Cultural Production: Notes on Aesthetics and Commitment from the Transparent Factory......Page 178
11 The Politics of ‘Contemporary Islamic Art’......Page 193
H......Page 206
S......Page 207
W......Page 208

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