Allen, K orcid.org/0000-0002-5583-8519 (2022) Re-claiming resilience and re-imagining welfare: A response to Angela McRobbie. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 25 (1). pp. 310-315. ISSN 1367-5494
Abstract
Across popular media and political discourse, subjects are increasingly addressed through the language of resilience – called upon to be positive, to show ‘grit, and to ‘bounceback’ from adversity. In her latest book, Feminism and The Politics of Resilience: Essays on Gender, Media and the End of Welfare (2020), Angela McRobbie offers an incisive analysis of the gendered address that this call to resilience takes; teasing out its complex relation to the logics of post-feminism and locating its traction against a backdrop of neoliberal austerity which has disproportionately punished women – and poor, black and brown women especially. In this short piece, I reflect upon the book’s contributions and consider whether the language of resilience, rather than be abandoned, might be reclaimed and repoliticised as part of radical feminist re-imaginings of welfare
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Nov 2021 12:11 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2022 11:20 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/13675494211036922 |
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