Resilience & Melancholy by Robin James
Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism
The book analyzes how neoliberalism elevates resilience into a moral and aesthetic imperative that individualizes suffering and neutralizes political critique, arguing that melancholy — an affective stance of lingering attachment, loss, and refusal to move on — reveals what the rhetoric of resilience seeks to erase. Using feminist theory, psychoanalytic and affect theory, and close readings of pop music and contemporary culture, it shows how cultural forms and therapeutic discourses teach people to adapt to precarious conditions while masking structural injustice and emotional labor, and it reframes melancholy as a potential critical resource for collective attachment and political refusal rather than merely a private pathology.
- Published
- 2015
- Nationality
- American
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- Original Language
- English
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