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

• 批准号: 2889627
• 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

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具体化和主观性，特别是想象力和愿望，一个核心困境是为什么种族资本主义如此持久，甚至在“黑人卓越”等文化比喻的情感维度上吸引那些有害的人。 “黑人卓越”，我的目的是回答以下问题：种族资本主义如何塑造想象力？“西方”社会理论如何维持和/或抵制种族资本主义？可想象的与不可想象的、不存在的和不那么有价值之间的深渊（Sousa Santos，2007）我的目标是找出“疲惫和后期疲劳的经济”（Verges，2021）如何影响想象力，从而影响想象力。审视愿望的情感经济（Ahmed，2004）会影响我们如何理解种族主义和种族化的主观性。由于想象力是有争议的、主观的、亲密的和具体化的，我的目标是利用深入的开放式访谈以及视觉方法论来比较了解来自不同阶层的黑人如何想象，以及他们如何概念化和运用“黑人”的概念。卓越'