Description
In Migrant Futures Aimee Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative fiction. While financial speculation creates a future based on predicting and mitigating risk for wealthy elites, the wide range of speculative novels, comics, films, and narratives Bahng examines imagines alternative futures that envision the multiple possibilities that exist beyond capital's reach. Whether presenting new spatial futures of the US-Mexico borderlands or inventing forms of kinship in Singapore in order to survive in an economy designed for the few, the varied texts Bahng analyzes illuminate how the futurity of speculative finance is experienced by those who find themselves mired in it. At the same time these displaced, undocumented, unbanked, and disavowed characters imagine alternative visions of the future that offer ways to bring forth new political economies, social structures, and subjectivities that exceed the framework of capitalism.
About the Author
Aimee Bahng is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Pomona College.
Reviews
"Compelling and unique . . . Aimee Bahng's skillfully made point: that the emerging field of critical finance studies, paired with feminist science studies, can help to reconfigure not only literary criticism but also Americanist, anti-/decolonial scholarship, queer theory, and science fiction studies. Migrant Futures truly sits at the edges of disciplines and casts its illuminating light over all of them." -- Sean Guynes * ASAP/Journal *
"In her readings of various Asian and Asian American texts and experiences, Aimee Bahng makes a significant intervention into Asian futurism. Instead of struggling to identify a specific Asianness in futurity, Bahng's work attempts to connect Asian futurism with other neocolonial, postcolonial, and imperial experiences." -- Eunice Sang Eun Lee * Situations *
"The ideas in Migrant Futures are big, novel, and fantastic. But more than that, the structure itself is an act of academic decolonization and speculation." -- Joshua Earle * Catalyst *
"Illuminating. . . . Aimee Bahng's ambitious book contributes to the nascent but growing field of critical finance studies, as well as to the more established tradition of scholarship on racial capitalism." -- Gabriella Friedman * American Quarterly *
"Rarely does an academic monograph leave its readers feeling buoyant, but Migrant Futures succeeds at doing just that. Bahng's stellar book demonstrates that doomsday prophecies about capitalism's all-encompassing power come to their pessimistic conclusions by way of an atrophied cultural canon." -- Christine Okoth * Journal of American Studies *
"Aimee Bahng's Migrant Futures offers a bold intervention into the future: both in the sense that it charts new ground for speculative thinking about the landscape of futurity as well as its stunning capacity to reshape the future of Asian American and ethnic studies." -- Keva X. Bui * Journal of Asian American Studies *
Book Information
ISBN 9780822363798
Author Aimee Bahng
Format Paperback
Page Count 248
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 340g
About the Author
Aimee Bahng is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Pomona College.
Reviews
"Compelling and unique . . . Aimee Bahng's skillfully made point: that the emerging field of critical finance studies, paired with feminist science studies, can help to reconfigure not only literary criticism but also Americanist, anti-/decolonial scholarship, queer theory, and science fiction studies. Migrant Futures truly sits at the edges of disciplines and casts its illuminating light over all of them." -- Sean Guynes * ASAP/Journal *
"In her readings of various Asian and Asian American texts and experiences, Aimee Bahng makes a significant intervention into Asian futurism. Instead of struggling to identify a specific Asianness in futurity, Bahng's work attempts to connect Asian futurism with other neocolonial, postcolonial, and imperial experiences." -- Eunice Sang Eun Lee * Situations *
"The ideas in Migrant Futures are big, novel, and fantastic. But more than that, the structure itself is an act of academic decolonization and speculation." -- Joshua Earle * Catalyst *
"Illuminating. . . . Aimee Bahng's ambitious book contributes to the nascent but growing field of critical finance studies, as well as to the more established tradition of scholarship on racial capitalism." -- Gabriella Friedman * American Quarterly *
"Rarely does an academic monograph leave its readers feeling buoyant, but Migrant Futures succeeds at doing just that. Bahng's stellar book demonstrates that doomsday prophecies about capitalism's all-encompassing power come to their pessimistic conclusions by way of an atrophied cultural canon." -- Christine Okoth * Journal of American Studies *
"Aimee Bahng's Migrant Futures offers a bold intervention into the future: both in the sense that it charts new ground for speculative thinking about the landscape of futurity as well as its stunning capacity to reshape the future of Asian American and ethnic studies." -- Keva X. Bui * Journal of Asian American Studies *
Book Information
ISBN 9780822363798
Author Aimee Bahng
Format Paperback
Page Count 248
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 340g
