Fugitive Feminism - Akwugo Emejulu

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Résumé :
What does existence mean for Black women without the anchor of humanity and the struggle to inhabit it? How can one be oneself without being human? What is it to become a fugitive from the confines of 'the human'?

Humanity has always excluded Others on the basis of race and gender. What happens to people who choose to flee, following in the footsteps of those who resisted enslavement?

This audacious manifesto draws on the legacies of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis and others to consider the ways in which Black women have been excluded from, struggled to achieve and opted to reject the category of 'human'. Sociologist Akwugo Emejulu argues that it is only through embracing the status of the 'fugitive' that Black women can determine their own liberation. Fugitive Feminism is a call for the collective process of speculative dialogue and a bold new model for action.

Fugitive feminism - a wild proposition, a paradoxical experiment to see whether it is possible to embrace the fugitive's porous, shifting and unstable identity for a Black feminist politics of liberation. -- Akwugo Emejulu...

Biographie:
Akwugo Emejulu is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include the political sociology of race, class and gender, and women of color's grassroots activism in Europe and the United States. She is the author of several books including Precarious Solidarity (Manchester University Press, forthcoming) and Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (Policy Press, 2017). She is co-editor of To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe (Pluto Press, 2019)....

Sommaire:
Akwugo Emejulu is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include the political sociology of race, class and gender, and women of color's grassroots activism in Europe and the United States. She is the author of several books including Precarious Solidarity (Manchester University Press, forthcoming) and Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (Policy Press, 2017). She is co-editor of To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe (Pluto Press, 2019)....