Institutional Transformations

Imagination, Embodiment, and Affect

Danielle Celermajer, Millicent Churcher, Moira Gatens, Danielle Celermajer, Millicent Churcher, Moira Gatens

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780367521776
• eBook ISBN: 9781000194128
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art General

Formal and informal institutions structure our social interactions by giving rise to normative expectations and patterns of collective behaviour. This collection grapples with how affect, imagination, and embodiment can operate to either constrain or enable the justice of institutions and the experiences of specific social identities.

This anthology explores the myriad ways institutions work to systematically disadvantage people with particular identities whilst privileging others, and considers the legal, political, and normative interventions that might serve to promote a more just society. Taken together, the chapters represent the scope of existing research within institutional theory, affect theory, race theory, and theories of social imaginaries. Across a range of topics (human rights, racial and sexual violence, transitional justice and democratic movements) this collection critically assesses the extent to which theorists have attended to the conjoined influence of the imagination, embodiment, and affective phenomena on processes of institutional change that aim to achieve social justice.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Angelaki.

Index

Note: Page numbers in italics denote figures.

Ackerman, Bruce 82n10

action-orientations 97n5

ActionStation 127, 128

actual imaginaries 136

advantaged communities, engagement in structural injustice: listening via conventional modes of engagement 126–128; listening via novel frames and focus 128–130

affairs 10, 51, 52; and scandals 52–54, 61–62

affective cultural dynamics 102

affective energies 103, 108

affective labour 6

affective solidarity 8

affects 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 121, 146n3

Agamben, Giorgio 69

agency–structure problem 4, 13–14n3

Ahmed, Sara 4, 146n5

Alcoff, Linda Martínì 141, 142, 143, 160n11

Al-Saji, Alia 8, 14n8

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 96n4

American Revolution: democratic groove 106–109

Anker, Elisabeth R. 55–56, 63n5

anti-lynching movement 26; NAACP pamphlet 26–32

anti-racist-violence movements 21, 24, 34

anti-violence movements 21

Aotearoa New Zealand, inequality in 120, 122, 126, 131

apartheid 10, 36–41, 43–44, 46

Appiah, Kwame Anthony 154, 159n8, 160n19

appraisal respect 155

Arendt, Hannah 71, 94, 95, 106

Argento, Asia 156–158, 160n16, 160n18

argumentationism 23

Arnason, Johann 145n2

artistic memory 10

Ashkanasy, Neal 5

asymmetrical racial epistemics 124

Aziz, Philippe 56

Barber, Paul 122

Bartky, Sandra 26, 27

Benford, Robert 9

Benjamin, Walter 82n9

Berentson-Shaw, Jessica 126

Berlant, Lauren 93–94

Berman, Harold 69

Bibi, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitlepage
• Titlepage
• Copyright-Page
• Table Of Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• Racial Violence, Emotional Friction, and Epistemic Activism
• South Africa’s Blue Dress
• The “Affairs” of Political Memory
• Character is a Sacred Bond
• The Tick-Tick-Ticking Time Bomb and Erosion of Human Rights Institutions
• Toward a Democratic Groove
• Listening to Claims of Structural Injustice
• The Imaginary Institution of the University
• Reframing Honour in Heterosexual Imaginaries
• Index