How can we create a model of politics that reaches beyond the nation-state, and beyond settler-colonialism, authoritarianism, and neoliberalism? In Beyond the Pink Tide, Macarena Gómez-Barris explores the alternatives of recent sonic, artistic, activist, visual, and embodied cultural production. By focusing on radical spaces of potential, including queer, youth, trans-feminist, Indigenous, and anticapitalist movements and artistic praxis, Gómez-Barris offers a timely call for a decolonial, transnational American Studies. She reveals the broad possibilities that emerge by refusing national borders in the Americas and by seeing and thinking beyond the frame of state-centered politics. Concrete social justice and transformation begin at the level of artistic, affective, and submerged political imaginaries—in Latin America and the United States, across South-South solidarities, and beyond.
By:
Macarena Gomez-Barris
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 7
Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780520296664
ISBN 10: 0520296664
Series: American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 28 August 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Overview ix Preface xi Introduction 1 Beyond the Pink Tide 1. Sounds Radical 22 Ana Tijoux, Student Protests, and Palestinian Solidarity 2. How Cuir Is Queer Recognition? 46 A Manifesto from the Sexual Underground 3. Art in the Shadow of Border Capitalism 68 Migration, Militarism, and Trans-Feminist Critique 4. An Archive of Starlight 88 Remapping Patagonia through Indigenous Memories Conclusion 107 Rogue Waves
Macarena Gómez-Barris is Chairperson of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute, Director of the Global South Center, and author of Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile and The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives.
