Atmospheres of Violence - Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable (Hardcover)

Advances in LGBTQ rights in the recent past-marriage equality, the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and the expansion of hate crimes legislation-have been accompanied by a rise in attacks against trans, queer and/or gender-nonconforming people of color. In Atmospheres of Violence, theorist and organizer Eric A. Stanley shows how this seeming contradiction reveals the central role of racialized and gendered violence in the United States. Rather than suggesting that such violence is evidence of individual phobias, Stanley shows how it is a structuring antagonism in our social world. Drawing on an archive of suicide notes, AIDS activist histories, surveillance tapes, and prison interviews, they offer a theory of anti-trans/queer violence in which inclusion and recognition are forms of harm rather than remedies to it. In calling for trans/queer organizing and worldmaking beyond these forms, Stanley points to abolitionist ways of life that might offer livable futures.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Eric A. Stanley
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-1330-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4780-1330-3
Barcode:	9781478013303

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