Embodied Liminality and Gendered State Violence: Artivist Expressions in the MMIW Movement

No. Panggil :	eja-21-0694
Nama Orang :	Presley, Rachel






Penerbitan :	[Place of publication not identified] : Proquest - Crime Justice and Cyber Criminology, 2020

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Abstrak	This article examines four multimedia artivist artefacts at the nexus of the missing and murdered Indigenous womens (MMIW) crisis. I position artivism as a decolonial methodology that radically alters our attunement to embodied aesthetics, contending that feminist artivists employ a radical imagination to liberate the body/body politic. Decoloniality must be an enacted praxis, and for many Indigenous feminists, creative and artistic practices provide a transformative pathway towards making and living out ones indigeneity as knowledge and tradition-bearers. Each of the four exhibits illustrate the ways in which settler politics are narrated and resisted through and by the Indigenous body. My analysis illuminates what I theorize as an embodied liminality allied to Anzaldúas (1987) Borderlands and Bhabhas (2004) Third Space. By articulating both feminist and decolonial forms of liminality, I explore the radical dimensions of artivism and the strategic subjugation of the liminals in-between threshold in which Indigenous women are traditionally relegated as monstrous Others. Using feminist artivism as a pathway to decolonization renders indigeneity clearly visible, such that the once-shadowy forms of its liminality are now simultaneously the protagonist and antagonist of the settler state. Building a decolonial movement against the MMIW crisis must begin with the recognition of the Indigenous body across fluid boundaries of radical resistance and critical vocabularies of aesthetic deviance.
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Kata Kunci	This article examines four multimedia artivist artefacts at the nexus of the missing and murdered Indigenous womens (MMIW) crisis. I position artivism as a decolonial methodology that radically alters our attunement to embodied aesthetics, contending that feminist artivists employ a radical imagination to liberate the body/body politic. Decoloniality must be an enacted praxis, and for many Indigenous feminists, creative and artistic practices provide a transformative pathway towards making and living out ones indigeneity as knowledge and tradition-bearers. Each of the four exhibits illustrate the ways in which settler politics are narrated and resisted through and by the Indigenous body. My analysis illuminates what I theorize as an embodied liminality allied to Anzaldúas (1987) Borderlands and Bhabhas (2004) Third Space. By articulating both feminist and decolonial forms of liminality, I explore the radical dimensions of artivism and the strategic subjugation of the liminals in-between threshold in which Indigenous women are traditionally relegated as monstrous Others. Using feminist artivism as a pathway to decolonization renders indigeneity clearly visible, such that the once-shadowy forms of its liminality are now simultaneously the protagonist and antagonist of the settler state. Building a decolonial movement against the MMIW crisis must begin with the recognition of the Indigenous body across fluid boundaries of radical resistance and critical vocabularies of aesthetic deviance.
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Tahun Terbit	2020
No. Induk	eja-21-0694
Entri Sumber Data	Proquest - Crime Justice and Cyber Criminology
Entri Utama Nama orang	Presley, Rachel
Volume, Nomor, Tahun dan Hlm.	vol. 21, no. 7, p. 91-109
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Barcode	eja-21-0694
Subjek Topik
Judul Utama	Embodied Liminality and Gendered State Violence: Artivist Expressions in the MMIW Movement
Kode Bahasa	eng
Sumber Koleksi	Perpustakaan Nasional