Title: Affective intellectuals and the space of catastrophe in the Americas /
Authors: Sierra-Rivera, Judith,
Year: 2018
Subjects: Social justice Western Hemisphere.; Social justice; Social conditions.; Politics and government.; Western Hemisphere Politics and government.; Western Hemisphere Social conditions.; Western Hemisphere
Abstract: "A study of contexts of crisis--natural disasters in Mexico, forced displacements between Central America and the United States, a whitewashed transition to democracy in Chile, colonialism and wars in Puerto Rico, and racism and patriarchy in Cuba--which examines the role of intellectuals in working toward social justice"--
Contents: Introduction: Emotional intellectual interventions and the politics of collective enunciation in the neoliberal space of catastrophe -- No sin nosotros: Monsiváis's emergent, moving, and cruel optimism -- For the believers: Francisco Goldman's Moro hybrid place as a bridge for the agents of hope -- Pedro Lemebel's queer intellectual discourse or la loca's angry, enamored, and melancholic call -- Angry brotherly love: U.S. militarized Puerto Rican bodies and Josean Ramos's filin -- Afro-Cuban cyberfeminism: love/sexual revolution in Sandra Álvarez Ramírez's blogging -- Epilogue: Intimacies of a "we," commonalities, and intellectual discourses.