Dr. Anna Feigenbaum publishes research articles

23/02/2011

Two of Dr. Anna Feigenbaum’s research articles have been recently published in academic journals. “Now I’m a Happy Dyke!”: Creating Collective Identity and Queer Community in Greenham Women’s Songs,” appears in the current issue of the Journal of Popular Music Studies. This article explores the roles that music and singing play in protest movements. Based on a three year archival research project, Dr. Feigenbaum’s essay examines a range of never before studied materials from hand decorated songbooks to radio documentaries. She investigates how the production and circulation of these media objects formed a central part of women’s anti-nuclear protest in the early 1980s.

Dr. Feigenbaum’s second article, “Concrete needs no metaphor: Globalized fences as sites of political struggle,” is published in the current issue ephemera: theory and politics in organization. In this paper Dr. Feigenbaum argues that the past decade has seen an increase in the deployment of perimeter security fences for purposes of containment and control—whether along borders, around detention centres or surrounding summit meetings of the global elite (G20, WTO, etc.). Such fences often become a place where protesters gather, turning wire and concrete into ‘canvases’ for political communication. Graffiti, sculptures, projections and multimedia memorials are built onto these fences as they are turned, both physically and symbolically, into sites of political resistance. Dr. Feigenbaum’s articles can be found online here:

Now I’m a Happy Dyke!”: Creating Collective Identity and Queer Community in Greenham Women’s Songs(access needed)

Concrete needs no metaphor: Globalized fences as sites of political struggle (open access)

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