IJES 2025, v. 25, n. 2
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- PublicationOpen AccessPolitics of refusal and crip willfulness in Y-Dang Troeung’s Landbridge [Life in Fragments] and Madeleine Thien’s Dogs at the perimeter.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Llarena Ascanio, María Jesús; Sin departamento asociadoTroeung’s creative and theoretical intervention in Landbridge [A life in fragments] (2023) and Madeleine Thien’s in Dogs at the perimeter (2011) pose questions around alternative epistemologies to Eurocentric notions of healing and trauma recovery in the aftermath of mass violence. Thien’s engagement with bioscientific discourse exposes the “limits of a scientific epistemological framework for understanding the traumas induced in socially, and historically, situated contexts” (Troeung, 2013, p. 72). Both works assemble an archive that enacts a politics of refusal, or crip willfulness –“a refusal to act in accordance with the system of compulsory able-bodiedness” (Johnson & McRuer, 2014, p. 136). This act of creative resilience in the afterlife of the Cambodian Genocide is what seems to inspire Troeung and Thien, whose works acknowledge a new cripistemology (McRuer, 2018; Puar, 2017) and are foundational in their attempt at decolonizing disability in trauma narratives.
- PublicationOpen AccessUnravelling bad feelings, weaving trans care: Kacen Callender’s Felix ever after.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) González-Díaz, Isabel; Sin departamento asociadoThis article explores the mixed and distressing feelings represented in Kacen Callender’s 2020 young adult novel Felix ever after, drawing on affect theories to highlight the potential that resignifying negative feelings can have for transgender youth. Along with reflecting on the transformative force of assertively managing bad feelings like anger or fear, the article analyses how the novel underscores the empowering effects that finding resilient care webs can have for young transgender individuals, particularly when confronting transphobia and questioning their identity.
- PublicationOpen AccessThe ethics of neoaustenism: from Jane Austen to Taylor Swift in the age of metamodernism.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Sánchez Cabrera, Alejandro; Sin departamento asociadoThis article introduces neoaustenism as a metamodern-feminist sensibility rooted in Jane Austen’s fiction and paradigmatically articulated today through Taylor Swift’s songwriting. While other metamodern-rooted discourses such as neoromanticism revive a largely male genealogy of longing and melancholy, neoaustenism retrieves a specifically feminine grammar of irony, self-reflexivity, and relational ethics. Grounded in affect theory and the ethics of care, the concept reframes vulnerability as a shared resource that turns personal wounds into collective agency. The article first situates neoaustenism within metamodern oscillation and the affective turn. It then traces a gendered genealogy of sentiment from Austen’s heroines to Swift’s layered lyrical voices, showing through close reading how Swift’s songwriting translates Austenian irony and care into pop rituals that foster horizontal communities through reflective nostalgia, audience co-authorship, and embodied practices. Finally, this article argues that neoaustenism holds potential beyond Swift and offers a critical horizon for (re)imagining feminine identity and resilience in neoliberal culture, thus inviting further interdisciplinary inquiry.
- PublicationOpen AccessDehumanist resilience in Tracy Sorensen’s The vitals.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) O'Brien, Susie; Sin departamento asociadoThis paper looks to Tracy Sorensen’s 2023 novel, The vitals, to help answer the question: what do we hope for –which bodies, which worlds– when we hope for resilience? The vitals narrates the experience of cancer from the perspective of the author’s abdominal organs and tumours. It is also, less obviously, an intervention into the cultural politics of climate change, informed by Sorensen’s many years as a climate activist. The book also reflects Sorensen’s recognition that climate change, like cancer, represents a challenge to the imagination that is partly attributable to myths of a hierarchical distinction between brain and body and between human and non-human modes of being. This paper reads The vitals as an experiment in dehumanism (Singh, 2018) that counters myths of humanist mastery with an emphasis on place-based imagination, organization and laughter.
- PublicationOpen AccessTransformative hope towards subversive resilience: the ethical roles of newspaper articles by Indian writers during the Covid-19 outbreak.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Diego Sánchez, Jorge; Sin departamento asociadoThis article studies Indian writing in the English language published in English newspapers (Indian, Bangladeshi, British, US) during the first wave of the Covid-19 outbreak in India (March 22–May 25, 2020). The selected authors include Arundhati Roy, Tishani Doshi, Anuradha Roy, and Prayaag Akbar, to illustrate the transnational consequences of the Covid-19 outbreak in different areas of India and analyse the narratology of resilience to articulate ethical knowledge against regional, national, and international stereotypes. I propose the concept transformative hope as an oppositional complaint (Bargués et al., 2024; Braithwaite, 2004; Giroux, 2004) against political and representational systems of domain articulated against the capitalist politics of who can afford to survive. This study shows a possible subversive resilience (Bracke, 2016; Darías-Beautell, 2020; Fraile-Marcos, 2020a; O’Brien, 2015) that, together with writing and reading, can implement alliance, rather than affiliation, and praises an ethical and transformative hope that dissents against the resilient appropriation of neoliberalism to benefit from tragedies like Covid-19.