The Institutionalizing Gaze: Making Anti-Imperialist, Anti-Colonialist, Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Racist Spaces of Agency
摘要
This chapter presents the institutionalizing gaze, as that which develops as an imperial gaze from imperialism, the colonial gaze from colonialism, the capitalist gaze from capitalism, and the fascistic gaze from fascism. Each of these institutionalizing gazes impose different, but connected, effects of domination on and the subjugation of subordinates in relations of power. What also occurs from the imperial gaze, the colonial gaze which colonizes, the capitalist gaze which commodifies, and the fascistic gaze which racializes are looking relations, from which subordinates in relations of power necessarily deploy an oppositional gaze that is anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist. This chapter will outline how, for hooks, these looking relations allow subordinates in relations of power, where black female spectators create spaces of agency, as concerted and transgressive ways to question the capitalist moment. In turn, this chapter makes clear that anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist spaces of agency becomes a means by which black female spectators look anew at imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and fascism.