Abstract
This article examines the context of political life in the United States during the Barack Obama administration, especially as related to right-wing assaults on a progressive political agenda. It also presents an argument for a new performative cultural politics; that is, an interventionist project informed by and committed to acts of activism in the pursuit of a politics of possibility. It concludes by outlining the prevailing lines of inquiry organizing such a project of the critical imagination: that of theory, politics, and performance.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 319-327 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2011 |
Keywords
- Barack Obama
- activism
- cultural politics
- neoliberalism
- performance
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)