The Feminist Fourth Wave Affective Temporality
This book examines the fourth wave of feminism within the United Kingdom. Focusing on examples of contemporary activism it considers the importance of understanding affect and temporality in relation to surges of feminist activity. Examining the wave’s hi
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Prudence Chamberlain
The Feminist Fourth Wave Affective Temporality
Prudence Chamberlain Royal Holloway, University of London London, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-3-319-53681-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-53682-8
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Acknowledgements
Aspects of this book have been presented at various conferences, where discussion helped me to develop my thinking on affect and understanding of the wave narrative. ‘Feminism in the Academy’ hosted at RHUL allowed me to have a dialogue with Ika Willis on negativity and the power of ‘no’, while Radical Negativity at Goldsmiths similarly forced me to focus on bad affect as well as the feelings of solidarity associated with feminist groups. Finally, Queen Mary’s Feminism: Influence: Inheritance Symposium served as a stimulating forum for discussing irony and contemporary activism. A number of the ideas included in the book have been developed in and through previously published work. ‘Critical Waves: Exploring Identity, Discourse and Praxis in Western Feminism’, co-written with Elizabeth Evans, was published in Social Movement Studies: New Feminisms in Europe. ‘Inheriting Irony and the Development of Flippancy’ was included in Feminism, Influence, Inheritance: New Essays in English Studies and most recently ‘Affective Temporality: Towards a Fourth Wave’ in Gender and Education: If Not Now, When? Feminism in Contemporary Activist, Social and Educational Contexts. These articles all had rigorou
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