The Politics of Beauty: Discourses and Intersections in the Global Sphere

The Politics of Beauty: Discourses and Intersections in the Global Sphere

Veranstalter
University of Cambridge
Veranstaltungsort
Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 4
Ort
Cambridge
Land
United Kingdom
Vom - Bis
02.09.2016 - 03.09.2016
Deadline
29.08.2016
Von
Dominique Grisard

This conference aims to engage with the politics of beauty and their ramifications. Since the 1970s social movements have been stimulating a wealth of studies on beauty as a racist, classist, ableist, colorist, lookist, sizeist, ageist, and (cis and hetero)sexist regime of representation. Recent research has focused on beauty as a practice or rather as incessant “body work” in neoliberal times – working out, body-building, make-overs, cosmetic surgery, shopping, dieting, etc. –, and its oppressive, discriminatory effects.

Despite this invaluable work, some pertinent questions remain opaque and understudied. How does beauty culture (re)produce and/or stand in tension to discourses of gender, class, race, ethnicity, skin colour, and colonialism? How is beauty productive? What does it produce? What are people’s affective, social, economic, and global investments in beauty? Why does the desire to prescribe beauty standards persist? How to analytically grasp the pleasure of doing body work? What different media strategies are used to programmatically present, transmit and disperse beauty concepts? Crucially, what is beauty doing in helping us understand lived experience and temporalities, language and representation, media images, and physicality? In other words, how to grasp the politics of beauty as forming intersectional selves, corporations, nations and global discourses?

Information and Registration:
http://www.politicsofbeautysite.wordpress.com
http://www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/about/events/beauty-summer-school

Contact:
politicsofbeauty2016@gmail.com

Programm

Confirmed speakers are, in alphabetical order:

Christine Checinska, University of Johannesburg VIAD, SA & Goldsmiths College, UK
Diane Negra, University College Dublin, IR
Dominique Grisard, University of Basel & Swiss Center for Social Research, Switzerland
Francis Ray White, University of Westminster, UK
Jackie Sanchez Taylor, University of Leicester, UK
Joy Gregory, Slade School of Fine Art, UK
Marcia Ochoa, UC Santa Cruz, USA
Margrit Vogt, Europa-University Flensburg, Germany
Meeta Rani Jha, University of Winchester, UK
Meredith Jones, Brunel University, UK
Mimi Thi Nguyen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Mónica Moreno Figueroa, University of Cambridge, UK
Ng’endo Mukii, independent artist, Nairobi
Paula Villa, LMU Munich, Germany
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University, USA
Rosalind Gill, City University London, UK
Sarah Banet-Weiser, USC Annenberg, USA
Shirley Tate, University of Leeds, UK

Kontakt

Dominique Grisard

Zentrum Gender Studies, Petersgraben 9/11, Universität Basel

Dominique.grisard@unibas.ch

http://www.politicsofbeautysite.wordpress.com
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