[ecrea] New book: Awkward Politics: Technologies of Popfeminist Activism

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*Awkward Politics***

*Technologies of Popfeminist Activism***

/Carrie Smith-Prei & Maria Stehle/

        The increased use of digital tools for political activism has 
triggered heated debates about the effectiveness of digital campaigns 
for political change and feminist causes. While technology’s immediacy 
and transnational reach have broadened the potential impact of activism, 
it has, at the same time, complicated the goals, materiality, and 
consumption of feminist actions. In /Awkward Politics/, Carrie 
Smith-Prei and Maria Stehle suggest that awkwardness offers a means of 
engaging with twenty-first century feminist activism by accounting for 
the uncertainty of popfeminist moments and movements, its sometimes 
illegible meanings, affects, and aesthetics. By investigating 
transnational media ranging from popfeminist performance art, music, 
street activism, blogs, and hashtags to literature, film, academic 
theory, and protests, the authors demonstrate that viewing activist art 
through the lens of awkwardness can yield a nuanced critique. By 
developing awkwardness into a theoretical tool for intervention, a key 
concept of feminist politics, and a moving target, this innovative study 
dramatically alters the ways in which we approach activism, its forms, 
movements, and effects. It also suggests a broad range of applicability, 
from social movements to the academy.  Breaking new ground through the 
intersections of technology, consumerism, and the political in 
popfeminist work,/ Awkward Politics/ highlights the urgency of feminist 
politics and activism.


Carrie Smith-Prei is associate professor of German studies at the 
University of Alberta.

Maria Stehle is associate professor of German and a faculty member in 
cinema studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

McGill-Queen's University Press

May 2016 280pp  9780773547476 PB £22.99 now only £18.39* when you quote 
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