This issue features a group of leading theorists from multiple
disciplines who decenter the human in queer theory, exploring what
it means to treat "the human" as simply one of many elements in a
queer critical assemblage. Contributors examine the queer
dimensions of recent moves to think apart from or beyond the human
in affect theory, disability studies, critical race theory, animal
studies, science studies, ecocriticism, and other new materialisms.
Essay topics include race, fabulation, and ecology; parasitology,
humans, and mosquitoes; the racialization of advocacy for pit
bulls; and queer kinship in Korean films when humans become
indistinguishable from weapons. The contributors argue that a
nonhuman critical turn in queer theory can and should refocus the
field's founding attention to social structures of dehumanization
and oppression. They find new critical energies that allow
considerations of justice to operate alongside and through their
questioning of the human-nonhuman boundary. Mel Y. Chen, Associate
Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of
California, Berkeley, is the author of Animacies: Biopolitics,
Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, also published by Duke
University Press. Dana Luciano is Associate Professor of English at
Georgetown University. She is the author of Arranging Grief: Sacred
Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America and editor, with
Ivy G. Wilson, of Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American
Literary Studies. Contributors: Neel Ahuja, Karen Barad, Jayna
Brown, Mel Y. Chen, Jack Halberstam, Jinthana Haritaworn, Myra
Hird, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Eileen Joy, Eunjung Kim, Dana Luciano,
Uri McMillan, Jose Esteban Munoz, Tavia Nyong'o, Jasbir K. Puar,
Susan Stryker, Kimberly Tallbear, Jeanne Vaccaro, Harlan Weaver,
Jami Weinstein
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