Precarious privilege: Indignad@s, daily disidentifications, and cultural (re)production. Issue 3 (3rd July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Martínez Guillem, Susana
• Is Part Of: Communication and critical/cultural studies. Volume 14:Issue 3(2017)
• Page Start: 238
• Page End: 253
• Publication Date: 2017-07-03
• Subjects: cultural (re)production -- discursive practices -- discursive formations -- Indignad@s -- precarious privilege -- social movements; Communication and culture -- Periodicals; Communication -- Periodicals; 302.205
• DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2017.1310387
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1479-1420

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this article, I develop the notion of precarious privilege to investigate dialectics of cultural (re)production, in relation to both specific discursive practices and broader discursive formations. Using the Indignad@s social movement as an example, I locate, interpret, and critique a series of disidentification dynamics shaping the movement as a whole, as well as the rhetoric of specific participants. Regarding the rise and development of Indignad@s, precarious privilege illuminates a conflicted social position enabled by disidentification from the current crisis of neoliberalism in Western Europe—a conjuncture that the movement strives to both expose and exploit. As for the views expressed by specific activists, precarious privilege helps explain the discursively enacted disidentification from the imagined aspects of their and others' (supra)national cultural identities. Grounded in this analysis, I emphasize the potentiality but also the limitations of this generalized tension between residual and emergent dynamics shaping Indignad@s ' political practices.