Visibility Politics: Theorizing Racialized Gendering, Homosociality, and the Feminicidal State

Signs ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-319
Author(s):  
Mary Hawkesworth
Keyword(s):  
Visibility Politics

scholarly journals Sovereignty and the Politics of Property

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eyal Benvenisti
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Interests ◽  
Economic Market ◽  
Political Market ◽  
Political Markets ◽  
High Politics ◽  
Visibility Politics

AbstractThe debate whether property is a limit on or the product of sovereignty envisages a tension between “the individual owner” and “the state.” But “the state” is not more than the aggregate of individuals who define theirs and others’ property rights through the state’s political process. The underlying tension between property and sovereignty is thus the tension between the economic market and the political market. Owners and others compete simultaneously at both levels to define, protect or improve the value of property. There are two ways to compete in the political marketplace: by engaging in either “high visibility politics” or “low visibility politics.” Diffuse owners rely on high visibility politics promoted by agents such as political parties or trade unions and on elections, referenda and the like, whereas smaller groups of owners prefer the low politics of capturing lawmakers and state executives.When economic markets became global at the end of the Cold War, so did the political markets: property rights increasingly became defined by international agreements, by decisions of international organizations, and by the exercise of “low politics” in foreign, weaker states. The global political markets were dominated by the executive branches of a handful of relatively strong states that, in turn, were responsive to the “low politics” of special interests. The high transaction costs of cooperation among diffuse owners inhibited the parallel rise of “high politics” at the global level. The skewed global political market for property continues to favor special interests, but there are budding attempts to reclaim the space for “high politics” by national regulators and courts. Current negotiations over the so-called “Mega Regional” agreements between the United States and its trading partners will, if successful, nip these buds as they render certain property rights almost immune to the subsequent challenges of high politics.

Identity Politics, Consciousness-Raising, and Visibility Politics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Whittier
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Gender And Race ◽  
Specific Experience ◽  
Identity Group ◽  
Visibility Politics

This chapter describes the emergence of consciousness-raising, including differences among women. It then discusses collective identity, explaining the concept and describing activists’ attempts to reconstruct collective identity as women and to determine how to practice their collective identity in daily life. Next, it discusses coming out and other forms of visibility politics, which aim to display collective identity and change conceptualizations of the group and its issues. Finally, the chapter explains the controversies and debates over identity politics and describes some of its contemporary manifestations. “Identity politics” refers to organizing around the specific experience or perspective of a given group and to organizing that has identity visibility as a goal. Identity politics has, from its beginning, grappled with the question of differences within each identity group. For women’s movements, questions of the intersections between gender and race, class, sexuality, and other dimensions have been fundamental.

scholarly journals Performatywne rozpoznania medialności polityki w myśli Judith Butler

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (55) ◽  
pp. 212-225
Author(s):  
Marcin Sanakiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The Body ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Visibility Politics ◽  
A Performance

Judith Butler, an American philosopher and performance theorist, sees the transformations of public sphere and democracy in the possibilities of making visible the human bodies. Butler interprets a performance as a setting boundary for belonging to a community. Public appearance requires the existence of the body and media technologies. In this way, the performative nature of political activities acquires the characteristics of biopower, according to Michel Foucault: control over the coupling of social and biological existence of man, taking into account his public visibility. Politics, by merging with what is media, obtains a performative (discursive/event) character.

Markets, Information, and Benevolence

1994 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Brennan
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Corporate Law ◽  
Law School ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Death Row ◽  
Death Sentences ◽  
Foundation Funding ◽  
Visibility Politics

In the January 6, 1991, issue of the Washington Post Magazine, reporter Walt Harrington wrote a profile of Bryan Stevenson. Mr. Stevenson is a 31-year-old working-class African-American from Delaware who graduated from Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government. Like the typical graduate of Harvard Law School, Mr. Stevenson had the opportunity to join the worlds of six-figure corporate law or high-visibility politics. Rather than follow his colleagues, however, Mr. Stevenson works seven-day, eighty-hour weeks as director of the Alabama Capital Representation Center. He appeals death sentences, handling twenty-four death-row cases himself, supervises five other lawyers who cover about thirty cases, and raises federal government and foundation funding. He does this living a Spartan existence on a salary of $24,000, refusing even the $50,000 directorship salary offered to him.

The Post‐Raciality and Post‐Spatiality of Calls for LGBTQ and Disability Visibility

Hypatia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carly Thomsen
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Racial Difference ◽  
Rural Studies ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Lgbtq Rights ◽  
Material Bodies ◽  
Sexuality And Disability ◽  
Visibility Politics

In this article, I consider the ideologies that emerge when disability and LGBTQ rights advocates' ubiquitous calls for visibility collide. I argue that contemporary visibility politics encourage the production of post‐racial and post‐spatial ideologies. In demanding visibility, disability and LGBTQ rights advocates ignore, ironically, visible markers of (racial) difference and assume that being “out, loud, and proud” is desirable trans‐geographically. I bring together disability studies and queer rural studies—fields that have engaged in remarkably little dialogue—to analyze activist calls for LGBTQ and disability visibility. The discourses evident in such calls transcend movements and virtual spaces and emerge as some of the LGBTQ women in the rural Midwest whom I interviewed discuss their relations to (their own and others') LGBTQ sexuality and disability. I analyze several cases to illustrate how visibility discourses compel the erasure of material bodies, and in the process, render certain (spatialized and racialized) experiences obsolete. I close by considering how my critique of visibility discourses might influence critical discussions of identity politics more broadly.

Documenting the undocumented: Toward a queer politics of no borders

Sexualities ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 976-997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Autumn White
Keyword(s):  
Open Space ◽  
Primary Site ◽  
The State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Queer Politics ◽  
Visibility Politics

This article explores the challenges of developing queer migrant justice strategies within nation-state contexts. With a focus on the Toronto-based ‘Let Alvaro Stay’ campaign (2011) and Julio Salgado’s collaborative ‘I Am Undocuqueer’ project, I critically examine queer anti-deportation activists’ reliance on methodological nationalisms and visibility politics in making claims hearable to the state. While such tactics risk reinforcing the nation-state as a primary site of identification, thereby contributing to its naturalization as an inevitable horizon of belonging, I argue that they also open space for imagining queer(er) no borders futures.

scholarly journals Topological and networked visibility: Politics of seeing in the digital age

Semiotica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (231) ◽  
pp. 259-277
Author(s):  
Michele Martini
Keyword(s):  
Visual Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Centralized Control ◽  
Internet Communication ◽  
Social Existence ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
Digital Landscape ◽  
Visibility Politics

Abstract Today, the convergence of video-based Internet Communication Technologies (ICTs) is challenging centralized control over cultural topologies. Accordingly, this paper proposes a theoretical prism for the analysis of the sociopolitical impact of online audio-visual communication. More precisely, this study discusses how topological visibility (i.e. culture-based, highly centralized and spatially organized visibility structures) and networked visibility (i.e. occurrence-based, decentralized and network organized visibility structures) interact in today’s digital landscape. To this aim, four examples divided into two clusters will be discussed. The first cluster (i.e. Occupy Movement and BlackBerry Riots) will describe the functioning of topological visibility, while the second cluster (i.e. NO DAPL drone activism and Aleppo residents’ live-streaming) will illustrate how technology-enhanced mediability may create networked spaces of appearance. The paper concludes by arguing that networked visibility does not neutralize the relational nature of the human gaze but rather forces and expands the culturally-defined boundaries of its legitimate social existence.

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