Commitment and Complicity in Cultural Theory and Practice

1. Introduction: Commitment and Complicity
Begüm Özden Fırat, Sarah Mul, Sonja Wichelen

Part I. Rethinking Commitment

2. Commitment as a Nonperformative
Sara Ahmed

3. Commitment or Commitment-Kitsch? Rethinking the ‘Woman Question’, Agency, and Feminist Politics
Sonja Wichelen

4. ‘Human’ in the Age of Disposable People: The Ambiguous Import of Kinship and Education in Blind Shaft

Rey Chow

Part II. Commitment and Complicity in the Production of Knowledge

5. The Middle East and the Disciplinary (Re)Production of Knowledge
Andrea Teti

6. Empty Versatility and the Art of the Circular Reading
Timothy Brennan

7. The Commitment to Face
Mieke Bal

Part III. Putting Complicity to Work

8. The Necessity of ‘Terror’
Elleke Boehmer

9. Putting Complicity to Work for Accountability: An Australian Case Study
Fiona Probyn-Rapsey

10. Layers of Labor in Cultural Production: Notes on Aesthetics and Commitment from the Transparent Factory
Octavi Comeron

11. The Politics of ‘Contemporary Islamic Art’
Begüm Özden Fırat

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Arts, Intellectual Studies, Political Communication, Media Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Theory