2017
DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2017.1394345
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Mediating affect in John Pilger’sUtopia: ‘the good life’ as a structure of whiteness

Abstract: This article proposes that whiteness should be thought as an affective structure. It draws together ideas from cultural studies, cultural anthropology and critical Indigenous studies to theorize whiteness in terms of optimism, possessive subjectivity and multiculturalism. The first section of the article shows how the optimism of ‘the good life’ (Berlant 2011) is linked structurally to whiteness in the construction of the Australian nation-state. Within this context, I introduce Utopia (2013). Made by the jour… Show more

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“…In their cultural analysis of settler affluence, Cefai (2018) argues that the normative "good life" in settler-colonial Australia is best thought of as a "structure of whiteness." As an aspirational objective, it is an "affective structure" (p. 127), what Williams (1977) might refer to as a "structure of feeling," that mediates proximity to an indiscernible refrain of settler normativity.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In their cultural analysis of settler affluence, Cefai (2018) argues that the normative "good life" in settler-colonial Australia is best thought of as a "structure of whiteness." As an aspirational objective, it is an "affective structure" (p. 127), what Williams (1977) might refer to as a "structure of feeling," that mediates proximity to an indiscernible refrain of settler normativity.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%