Contemporary Cultural Tools for Identities in the Making

This book asks how cultural and artistic practices constitute a central tool for the expression and recognition of individual and collective identities, and how shared creative efforts shape alternative lexical and symbolic languages.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
Part 1 - through
1. Camouflage and hybridity in postmigrant Black cultures
2. Filmmaking and new narratives for Palestine beyond borders: In conversation with Sameer Qumsiyeh
3. Liquid portraits of selves-in-translation in Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue
4. Planetary-Plotting (with) Art Institutions
Part 2 - against
5. I felt emptied
6. Self-made: Martine Gutierrez, the Indigenous Woman
7. Jean Genet's Palace of Mirrors
Part 3 - beyond
8. Sculpting Interstitial Passages: An Interview-Essay on Monia Ben Hamouda's Work
9. 'Taking responsibility for my frequencies': Biosemiotics, Sylvia Wynter, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs
10. Reversing the Immanence of Architecture as Identity Shaping: Every Island's A Comparative Dialogue Act, Disruptive Bodies in Malleable Spaces
Index

About the author

Federico Rudari is a doctoral researcher in Culture Studies at the Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture at Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
Luísa Santos is a senior researcher at the Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture and Assistant Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

Product details

• Authors: Federico (Catholic University of Portugal) Rudari
• Assisted by: Federico Rudari (Editor), Luísa Santos (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032679938
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3267993-8
• No. of pages: 158
• Series: Routledge Studies in Material Culture and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; History, Media Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, The arts: general issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Social History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Documentary, Documentary films, Theatre Studies, Humanities, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Performance Art, Media, Information & Communication Industries, The arts: general topics