In an era of scholarship greatly oriented to area studies or simplified categorisations suited to narrow disciplinary categories, Áine Mangaoang’s Dangerous Mediations: Pop Music in a Philippine Prison Video defies expectations by bringing together multiple threads in transdisciplinary ways. The title does very little to allude to the author’s focused and embraced complexity in speaking to the topic

Christabelle Sethna and Gayle Davis, eds., Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2019, 360pp., ISBN: 978-1-421-42729-4, $59.95 (Hbk)

The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music by Professor Nina Sun Eidsheim opens with four distinct epigraphs. The first is from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, as Juliet ponders the distinct sound of Romeo, a Montague. The second is a quote on tone from Monty Python’s Flying Circus. The third is from the court record of the 1995 California v. O.J. Simpson trial

Calls to ‘decolonise’ have swept across academia in recent years. Although music and sound studies have historically been slower than other disciplines to incorporate minoritised perspectives, they too have begun responding to the surge in attention to the entrenched consequences of colonialism and Empire. Yet, in many iterations, ‘decoloniality’ has become a buzzword for, or even a softer and less

While the subject of women’s activity in historical and contemporary punk scenes has attracted significant attention, the presence of trans women in punk has received comparatively little research, in spite of their increasing visibility and long history in punk. This article examines the conditions for trans women’s entrance in punk and the challenges and opportunities that it offers for their self-assertion

In the 1980s, new reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilisation and embryo transfer became commercially available in the United States, and somatic cell nuclear transfer—the cloning process by which Dolly the Sheep would be conceived in 1996—was in its experimental phase. While anxieties concerning these new technologies escalated in the popular sensorium, Laurie Anderson explored the phenomenon

I argue that sound-centric scholarship can be of use to feminist theorists if and only if it begins from a non-ideal theory of sound; this article develops such a theory. To do this, I first develop more fully my claim that perceptual coding was a good metaphor for the ways that neoliberal market logics (re)produce relations of domination and subordination, such as white supremacist patriarchy. Because

Live coding is an embodied, sensorial and live technological–human relationship that is recursively iterated through sonic and visual outputs based on what we argue are kinship relations between and through bodies and technology. At the same time, and in a familiar moment of déjà vu for feminist scholars, live coding is most often discussed not in relation to the lived and sensory human–technology

This article explores the ways in which Janelle Monáe’s audiovisual performances leverage black female flesh to trouble historically constituted imaginings of ‘the human’. Tracking Monáe’s audiovisual aesthetics across ‘Many moons’ and Dirty Computer, I interrogate acoustic and imagistic resonances that recall the repeating horrors of bondage, and which also constitute performative ‘fabulations’ whereby

In this article, I explore the auditory technopolitics of prenatal sound systems, asking what kinds of futures, listeners and temporalities they seek to produce. With patents for prenatal audio apparatus dating back to the late 1980s, there are now a range of devices available to expectant parents. These sound technologies offer multiple benefits: from soothing away stress to increasing the efficiency

In this article, I examine the marginalisation and abjection of strongwilled and assertive women in Dagaaba settings in rural north-western Ghana. This is done by paying attention to a local identity category known as pog gandao—‘a woman who is more than a man’. The pog gandao, or what I gloss as the wilful woman, concept is used by men and women locally to stigmatise hard-working and assertive Dagaaba

Sisterhood and After explores and contextualises the oral histories of sixty women involved in the UK women’s liberation movement (WLM) in the 1970s and 1980s. Conducted in the early 2010s as part of a project with the British Library (which Jolly also directed), these interviews elicit memories of the WLM, along with reflections on the movement’s afterlife and the paths that the women have since taken

Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora is Gayatri Gopinath’s much anticipated second monograph. The author, who is one of the most influential and poignant voices in queer diaspora studies, sets out to foreground new directions in the field. Citing her influential first text, Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (2005), Gopinath declares that her scholarly

In the seventh decade of academic and broadly cultural interest in the Beat Generation, Mary Paniccia Carden accomplishes something new: the first single-author book on women writers associated with the original Beat Generation. Carden focuses on autobiographical books by poets Diane di Prima, Hettie Jones, Joanne Kyger and ruth weiss, and fiction writers Bonnie Bremser and Joyce Johnson, all of whom

On International Women’s Day 2019, feminists involved in the Women’s Strike UK organised political ‘stay and play’ events across London—in Walthamstow, Tooting, Haringey, Clapton and Deptford—and in Cardiff—called ‘My Mum is on Strike’ (MMIOS). These were events where children could be collectively cared for while their mums, carers and parents could have a chance to chat about what it means to care

Recent years have seen an increased interest in black feminism. Whether thinking of the explosion of activism, the reprinting of classics such as Heart of the Race (Bryan, Dadzie and Scafe, 2018 [1985]) and Finding a Voice (Wilson, 1978) or the numerous journalistic or scholarly inquiries into black feminist formations in Britain in the 1970s–1990s, black feminism is a topic of interest once again

How does war reconfigure women’s social roles and status? This article investigates how women’s volunteering during conflict can challenge gendered divisions within society and transform the binary of masculine protector and feminine protected. When the Donbas conflict erupted in Ukraine in 2014, women assumed central roles as civilian volunteers who aided populations affected by violence. They gained

There has been substantial work in recent years, from different contexts and traditions, on the use of archives. The possibilities and limitations of the archive, as theoretical concept as well as material site, are picked up widely by queer, feminist and decolonial scholars. The past decade has seen an increase in publications, special issues, events and exhibitions grappling with the idea of the

What is the role of cultural archives in creating and sustaining connections between diasporic communities? Through an analysis of an audiovisual archive that has sought to bring together representations of and by African, Caribbean and Asian people, this article discusses the relationship between diasporic film, knowledge production and feminist solidarity. Focusing on a self-curated, UK-based archive

Azrini Wahidin offers a critical and engaging study of how gender relations shaped key features of the conflict and conflict transition in Northern Ireland. This important book draws on rich interview material with men and women who were active in the Irish Republican Army during the ‘Troubles’. Wahidin revisits debates concerning women’s roles in war and conflict transformation to interrogate gender

When I began curating ourselves + others, I had in mind two experiences I had at SOAS to which I wanted to respond. The first was academic racism, which I encountered in certain women lecturers. Academic racism believes its knowledge of blackness and Africanness is superior because it is learned within the white, Western institution rather than outside it, through lived experience or through alternative

Elspeth Probyn’s latest monograph, Eating the Ocean, is a pleasurable, engaging read—itself an important achievement for a transdisciplinary work that brings together gender, queer and cultural studies to sites of oceanic more-than-human complexity. In a compelling account of an oceanic ‘ethics of attunement’ (p. 131), Probyn charts a truly troubling range of ‘metabolic intimacies’ between fish, humans

In this book review of Couze Venn’s After Capital, Gargi Bhattacharyya engages with Venn’s last book. Venn, who passed away last year, had an expertise in cultural theory, postcolonial and diaspora studies, social theory, science studies and psychosocial studies. He was a Professor of cultural theory and postcolonial theory in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths

This article reads the photo album, The ‘Life and Times’ of an American Called Pauli Murray as an archive of anti-lynching pasts and futures. While scholarly discourses have leveraged Murray’s archive for evidence of her ‘true’ gender and sexual orientation, this article uses the reading practice of ‘accompaniment’ to reframe investigations of Murray’s identity into thinking with and learning from

There is an oft-touted thought, which has perhaps fallen into adage for its authorlessness, that women carry archives in their bodies. It seems a romantic or old-fashioned thought—that bodies can be ‘a witness, testament and document’ and so are sites of history-making (Schneider, 2019). It is a thought that has been swept aside by an epistemological framework that has come to dominate how it is we

On the issue of abortion, Ireland and Poland have been among the most conservative countries in Europe. Their legal and cultural approaches to this issue have been deeply influenced by the institution of the Catholic Church and its purported role as a defender of an authentic national identity. However, their political climates for abortion reform are increasingly divergent: Ireland has liberalised

It was snowing on 27 February 2018, when most of the contributors to this themed issue and others met at the Long Room Hub in Trinity College Dublin to discuss spatiality and abortion law reform in Ireland. The 8th Amendment (‘the 8th’) was still part of the Irish Constitution. Some contributors were cautious, wary of predicting success in the forthcoming referendum, nervous of the fight to come. Others

Feminists witness legal worlds as they observe, document and share nothing less than the reproduction of life itself. The world of the abortion trail, where people and things move across borders to change life’s reproduction, has generated a rich variety of legal sources, figures and objects for feminist witnessing. In watching how feminist activists improvise with sources, figures and objects of legal

This article analyses abortion health activism (AHA) in the Irish context. AHA is a form of activism focused on enabling abortion access where it is restricted. Historically, AHA has involved facilitating the movement of abortion seekers along ‘abortion trails’ (Rossiter, 2009). Organisations operate transnationally, enabling access to abortion care across borders. Such AHA is a form of feminist anarchism

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Resistances to sexual and gender rights are shifting and need new theorisations. This article develops the analytical concept of heteroactivism by exploring its relation to abortion debates in Ireland. Heteroactivism as an analytical category examines resistances to sexual and gender rights that seek to reiterate the place of the heteronormative family (both in terms of gender norms and heterosexuality)

The Repeal campaign articulated new and transformative relationships between law, reproduction and the political in Ireland. During the campaign, ordinary people took ownership of and participated in mutual teaching and critique of law on a wide scale. Art, along these lines, was often used to document and archive the injustices worked by the 8th Amendment. However, art also became a means of imagining

The Renunciation is a performed reading that intervened respectfully but determinedly in the reflective space that is occupied by the Angelus. Despite efforts to secularise our social and public spaces or, at the very least, to ensure that no single faith/non-faith dominates them to the exclusion or disadvantage of others, the Angelus continues to peal out on our streets and in many of our hospitals

In the context of Ireland’s new legislation governing abortion, I outline and examine the spatial consequences of political decision-making. I argue that Ireland’s new abortion law and its clinical guidance permit travel for some pregnant people but impose fixity on others. I analyse the spatial consequences of legal limitations, including non-medically necessary delays in care and medical control

Irish legislative engagement with abortion law reform has never been framed by recognition of the rights of pregnant women, girls and other people. Rather, where it has taken place at all, it has always been foetocentric and punitive, exceptionalising abortion and conceptualising law as a means of discouraging it. In important ways, the post-repeal landscape has failed to break decisively with this

With the xeno in xenofeminism conjuring the other, xenofeminism seeks to provide an/other form of feminism, one which embraces technological change, claims the unnatural and seeks alienation. Written by a collective under the name Laboria Cuboniks (2015), an anagram of the pseudonym Nicolas Bourbaki (which was a pseudonym used by a group of early twentieth-century revolutionary mathematicians), xenofeminism

The Handbook on Gender and War, edited by Simona Sharoni, Julia Welland, Linda Steiner and Jennifer Pedersen, is an important one-stop shop for feminist theorising on war. Each chapter takes different perspectives on gender to create a well-rounded and interdisciplinary interrogation of gender’s interaction with the processes of war. Below, I reflect on the essence of each of the book’s four sections

Digital labour refers to a range of tasks performed by humans on, in relation to or in the aftermath of software and hardware platforms. On-demand logistics services like Uber and Deliveroo, micro-work venues such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, data transactions generated by social media channels and online retail portals devoted to one-click consumption all comprise digital labour. So do the maledominated

Five years down the line, Marie Hicks’ book Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (2017) continues in this scholastic tradition of critical history of gender in computing while extending the argument to the political economy of gender, work and technology at large. Hicks starts from the inception of the first digital, electronic, programmable

Feminist investigations into caring technologies emphasise the tension between their reproduction of care’s assumed femininity and their ability to destabilise gendered markers and systems. However, the existing literature ignores the historical racialisation of care and its perpetuation in the form of the posthuman caring object. This article examines how racialised relations of power shape the posthumanisation

In her effort to challenge dominant theories of late-capitalist urban spaces on the one hand and the legacy of the Enlightenment materialism on the other, Arina Cirstea turns to British women novelists whose works record and reimagine the emergence of London as a modern metropolis in all its contradictions. She considers the works of Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and Virginia Woolf as representative

This article revisits materialist second-wave feminist debates about domestic labour in the context of digitalisation. Using a differentiated typology of labour, it looks at how the tasks involved in housework have undergone dramatic changes through commodification, decommodification and recommodification without fundamentally altering the gender division of labour in social reproduction, drawing on

As digital labour becomes more widespread across the uneven geographies of race, gender, class and ability, and as histories of colonialism and inequality get drawn into these forms of labour, our imagination of what these worlds contain similarly needs to expand. Beyond the sensationalist images of the ‘brogrammer’ and the call-centre worker lie intersecting labour practices that bring together histories

In 2018, abortion access and laws have been making headlines again and spurring public debates. In May, Ireland voted in favour of ending the country’s ban on abortion after ‘a historic referendum’ (Kelly et al., 2018), whereas in August, Argentina’s senate narrowly rejected a proposal to legalise abortion (Politi and Londoño, 2018). In March, plans to limit Poland’s strict abortion law even further

In this article I examine how start-up capitalism recalibrates transnational ‘outsourcing’ or the work of so-called ‘cyber coolies’ to instead create labour as a site of innovation and experimental consumption. First, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork in India to theorise digital labour as a form of experimental mediation and temporal work oriented to the future. Second, I show how work is deeply embodied

As architecture intersects with computer science to engage with large-scale data sets and informational systems, this demands new skills, competencies and commitments. Informed by the findings of an online survey, this article explores how, who and to what extent those in the profession of architecture are investing in technology knowledge and skills, and under what material conditions this occurs

In the 1999 box office hit The Matrix, the male protagonist Neo is offered a choice between taking either a red or blue pill. The latter will ensure his life continues in blissful ignorance of ‘the truth’ of his world, whilst the former will awaken him to the brutal realities of existence. Today, an alt-right community of men have swallowed the metaphorical ‘red pill’ and awoken to a world in which

A growing number of people are relying on technologies like Google Maps not only to navigate and locate themselves in cartographic space but also to search, discover and evaluate urban places. While the spatial data that underlies such technology frequently appears as a combination of Google-created maps and locational information passively collected from mobile (GPS-enabled) devices, in this article

This article adds to the debate on digital labour by including sexual labour, a feminised form of work that is traditionally excluded from official labour statistics and mainstream labour politics because of the embedded sociolegal, cultural and political context that defines female sexual labour as illegitimate work. This exclusion has been extended to digital labour politics. This article draws on

In 2018, Irish citizens voted overwhelmingly to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution to allow for the introduction of a more liberal abortion law. In this article, I develop a retrospective reading of the stubborn persistence of the denial of reproductive rights to women in Ireland over the decades. I argue that the ban’s severity and longevity is rooted in deep-seated, affective attachments

This article offers a reading of Ken Loach’s 2016 film I, Daniel Blake, a fictionalised account of experiences of the UK welfare system in conditions of austerity. We consider, firstly, the significant challenge the film poses to dominant figurations of welfare recipients under austerity, through a focus on vulnerability to state processes. We follow with a reading of some of the film’s interventions

This article seeks to consider the policing of anti-fracking protests at Barton Moss, Salford, from November 2013 to April 2014. We argue that women at Barton Moss were considered by the police to be transgressing the socio-geographical boundaries that establish the dominant cultural and social order, and were thus responded to as disruptive and disorderly subjects. The article draws upon recent work

Here comes, at long last, a book on human rights that clears the way for going forward outside the self-centred, self-referential and self-sufficient circle of human rights scholarship—an academic genre that, even at its most critical, always already re-reifies the liberal paradigm centred on the rights bearer. Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl (2018) is a brave

‘What a time to live in Ireland’: this is what I have often thought in the past months as the ‘abortion referendum’ approached. On 25 May 2018, Irish voters were called to cast their yes or no vote to the proposal of repealing the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. The amendment equated the life of the foetus to the life of the pregnant person, de facto criminalising abortion. A vast majority voted

Law likes categories, and international law is no exception. Indeed, the structure of law has long been recognised and contested by feminist critics. Structural bias feminists often discuss the public/ private divide. They contest ‘international law’s priority of the state over civil society, and of civil and political rights over economic and social rights’ (Engle, 2005, p. 54), and these are ‘seen

This article argues that intersectional analyses of care work also need to include a temporal aspect. Drawing on ethnographic research on Slovak au pairs working in the UK and on interviews with both providers and employers of paid childcare in Slovakia, I examine how the temporariness of care work is created within both migrant and non-migrant settings. In particular, I demonstrate that both employers

The article charts my trajectories as a feminist activist/academic seeking to research, write and talk about gender-based violence in relation to the Middle East. More specifically, I am drawing on research and activism in relation to Iraq, Turkey and Lebanon to map the discursive, political and empirical challenges and complexities linked to scholarship and activism that is grounded in both feminist

Travelling through the complexity of diasporic belonging with Nadia Ellis as a guide is to embark on a journey full of thought-provoking connections. The destination is a new territory populated by twentieth and twenty-first century Black writers and artists, and their work, as seen through the magnifying and clarifying glass of Ellis’ analysis. I learned a lot on the voyage and was inspired by the

This article discusses the imbrication of racialising and sexualising scientific practices of gender testing and verification in elite athletics competition, and their intersection with social politics, using as a theoretical frame the feminist, anti-racist work of Hortense Spillers (2003), Judith Butler (1990, 1993a, 1993b, 2004) and Anne Fausto-Sterling (2000), among others. It traces the practice

Mary Evans’ new book, The Persistence of Gender Inequality, addresses an essential and vexing question: why does gender inequality persist? The book provides three main answers. First, gender inequality is sustained by the persistence of the ‘double shift’—even when women work outside the home, they still retain responsibility for the majority of care work inside it. Second, gender inequality is perpetuated