In Intoxicated Mel Y. Chen explores the ongoing imperial
relationship between race, sexuality, and disability. They focus on
nineteenth-century biopolitical archives in England and Australia
to show how mutual entanglements of race and disability take form
through toxicity. Examining English scientist John Langdon Down’s
characterization of white intellectual disability as Asian
interiority and Queensland’s racialization and targeting of
Aboriginal peoples through its ostensible concern with Black Opium,
Chen explores how the colonial administration of race and
disability gives rise to “intoxicated” subjects often shadowed
by slowness. Chen charts the ongoing reverberations of these
chemical entanglements in art and contemporary moments of political
and economic conflict or agitation. Although intoxicated subjects
may be affected by ongoing pollution or discredited as agents of
failure, Chen affirmatively identifies queer/crip forms of
unlearning and worldmaking under imperialism. Exemplifying an
undisciplined thinking that resists linear or accretive methods of
inquiry, Chen unsettles conventional understandings of slowness and
agitation, intellectual method, and the toxic ordinary.
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise |
| Release date: |
November 2023 |
| Firstpublished: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Mel Y. Chen
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
208 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4780-2532-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-4780-2532-8 |
| Barcode: |
9781478025320 |
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