Ugly Freedoms (Paperback)

Elisabeth R. Anker

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Published by Duke University Press, North Carolina, 2022

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Paperback. In Ugly Freedoms Elisabeth R. Anker reckons with the complex legacy of freedom offered by liberal American democracy, outlining how the emphasis of individual liberty has always been entangled with white supremacy, settler colonialism, climate destruction, economic exploitation, and patriarchy. These "ugly freedoms" legitimate the right to exploit and subjugate others. At the same time, Anker locates an unexpected second type of ugly freedom in practices and situations often dismissed as demeaning, offensive, gross, and ineffectual but that provide sources of emancipatory potential. She analyzes both types of ugly freedom at work in a number of texts and locations, from political theory, art, and film to food, toxic dumps, and multispecies interactions. Whether examining how Kara Walker's sugar sculpture A Subtlety, Or the Marvelous Sugar Baby reveals the importance of sugar plantations to liberal thought or how the impoverished neighborhoods in The Wire blunt neoliberalism's violence, Anker shifts our perspective of freedom by contesting its idealized expressions and expanding the visions for what freedom can look like, who can exercise it, and how to build a world free from domination. Elisabeth R. Anker reckons with the complex legacy of freedom offered by liberal American democracy, identifying modes of "ugly freedom" that can lead to domination or provide a source of emancipatory potential. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title
Ugly Freedoms (Paperback)
Author
Elisabeth R. Anker
Publisher
Duke University Press, North Carolina
Publication year
2022
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Paperback
Language
English
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