1st Edition

Contemporary Cultural Tools for Identities in the Making

Edited By Federico Rudari, Luísa Santos Copyright 2025
178 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Contemporary Cultural Tools for Identities in the Making asks how cultural and artistic practices constitute a central tool for the expression and recognition of individual and collective identities, and how shared creative efforts shape alternative lexical and symbolic languages.     Gathering both theoretical discussion and praxis, chapters explore the strong potential of... Read more

Preface 

Introduction: claiming presence, Federico Rudari 

Part 1 – through

1. Camouflage and hybridity in postmigrant Black cultures, Dzifa Peters

2. Filmmaking and new narratives for Palestine beyond borders: In conversation with Sameer Qumsiyeh, Sara Mancinelli and Sameer Qumsiyeh

3. Liquid portraits of selves-in-translation in Yoko Tawada’s Portrait of a Tongue, Joana Moura

4. Planetary-Plotting (with) Art Institutions, Luísa Santos 

Part 2 – against

5. I felt emptied, Stephanie Ifill

6. Self-made: Martine Gutierrez, the Indigenous Woman, Federico Rudari

7. Jean Genet’s Palace of Mirrors, Pier Giovanni Adamo 

Part 3 – beyond

8. Sculpting Interstitial Passages: An Interview-Essay on Monia Ben Hamouda’s Work, Mattia Tosti

9. ‘Taking responsibility for my frequencies’: Biosemiotics, Sylvia Wynter, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Niall Martin

10. Reversing the Immanence of Architecture as Identity Shaping: Every Island’s A Comparative Dialogue Act, Disruptive Bodies in Malleable Spaces, Alessandro Cugola 

Index

Biography

Federico Rudari is a doctoral researcher in Culture Studies at the Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture at Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

Luísa Santos is a senior researcher at the Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture and Assistant Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa.