Imagination under Racial Capitalism: the Affective Salience of Racialised and Gendered Tropes of 'Black excellence'

种族资本主义下的想象力：“黑人卓越”的种族化和性别化比喻的情感显着性

基本信息

批准号：
2889627
负责人：
金额：
--
依托单位：
University of Cambridge
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2023 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2889627
关键词：
Imagination under Racial Capitalism Affective

项目摘要

Racialised capitalism shapes embodiment and subjectivity, specifically imagination and aspiration. A central predicament is why racial capitalism is so persistent, even drawing in those it harms to be its advocates under banners like 'Black excellence'. Focussing on the affective dimensions of cultural tropes of 'Black excellence', I aim to answer the following questions: How does racial capitalism shape imaginations? How does imagination sustain and/or resist racial capitalism? 'Western' social theory rests on 'abyssal thinking', the creation of an abyss between what is imaginable and what is not, the latter rendered non-existent and less worthy (Sousa Santos, 2007). I aim to find out how an "economy of exhaustion and fatigue" (Vergès, 2021) affects the imagination and thus affects what is recognised as existent. Looking at affective economies (Ahmed, 2004) of aspiration makes a difference to how we understand racism and racialised subjectivity. Asthe imagination is contested, subjective, intimate and embodied, I aim to use in-depth open-ended interviews as well as visual methodology to comparatively understand how Black people from different walks of life imagine otherwise and how they conceptualise and employ notions of 'Black excellence'

种族化的资本主义塑造了实施和主观性，特别是想象力和愿望。一个中心的预测是为什么种族资本主义如此持久的原因，即使是那些在诸如“黑人卓越”之类的横幅下成为其倡导者的人。重点关注“黑人卓越”文化热带彩虹的影响方面，我的目标是回答以下问题：种族资本主义如何塑造想象力？想象力如何维持和/或抵抗种族资本主义？ “西方”的社会理论基于“深渊思维”，这是可以想象到的东西之间的深渊，后者呈现不存在和不那么宝贵（Sousa Santos，2007）。我的目的是找出“疲惫和疲劳的经济”（Vergès，2021）如何影响想象力，从而影响被认为存在的事物。研究情感经济（Ahmed，2004年）的愿望与我们如何理解种族主义和种族化的主观性有所不同。由于想象力是有争议的，主观的，亲密的和体现的，我的目标是使用深入的开放式访谈以及视觉方法学，以相对了解来自不同各行各业的黑人如何否则，否则他们如何概念化和员工对“黑人卓越”的概念和注释。