The "Excessive" Politics of Feminist Rage and Resistance

OBJECTIVE: The idea of the symposium is to reflect upon "women's rage" within a broader framework of a "politics of excess".

We aim to identify how mediated narratives and cultural politics frame feminist demands as "excess", and that must be "contained" and disciplined. In this sense, it is key to analyse the notion of "excess" not only as a device for stigmatisation and symbolic violence, especially from anti-feminist and far-right movements/organisations/digital spaces, but also how it has been understood in feminist theory and praxis as a site of resistance and political agency.

Therefore, this symposium will explore frameworks for discussing how dissent/resistance/counter narratives (criminalised as “violent” by those in power) can re-appropriate "excess" as a potentially transformative tool and a "productive negativity" against "regulatory violence".

Participants include:
- Catherine Rottenberg (Goldsmiths, UK)
- Maria-Jose Gámez-Fuentes (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
- Dir Jilly Boyce Kay (Loughborough, UK)
- Sara Reinis (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Sam Tenorio (Penn State University, USA)
- Rosalind Gill (Goldsmiths, UK)
- Sonia Núñez-Puente (Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain)
- Sana Malik Noon (Emory University, USA)