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The concepts of biopolitics and necropolitics have increasingly
gained scholarly attention, particularly in light of today’s
urgent and troubling issues that mark some lives as more – or
less – worthy than others, including the migration crisis, rise
of populism on a global scale, homonationalist practices, and
state-sanctioned targeting of gender, sexual, racial, and ethnic
‘others’. This book aims to nuance this conversation by
emphasising feminist and queer investments and interventions and by
adding the analytical lens of cosmopolitics to ongoing debates
around life/living and death/dying in the current political
climate. In this way, we move forward toward envisioning feminist
and queer futures that rethink categories such as ‘human’ and
‘subjectivity’ based on classical modern premises. Informed by
feminist/queer studies, postcolonial theory, cultural analysis, and
critical posthumanism, Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Cosmopolitics
engages with longstanding questions of biopolitics and
necropolitics in an era of neoliberalism and late capitalism, but
does so by urging for a more inclusive (and less violent)
cosmopolitical framework. Taking account of these global dynamics
that are shaped by asymmetrical power relations, this fruitful
posthuman(ist) and post-/decolonial approach allows for visions of
transformation of the matrix of in-/exclusion into feminist/queer
futures that work towards planetary social justice. This book is a
significant new contribution to feminist and queer philosophy and
politics, and will be of interest to academics, researchers, and
advanced students of gender studies, postcolonial studies,
sociology, philosophy, politics, and law. The chapters in this book
were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of
Gender Studies.
The concepts of biopolitics and necropolitics have increasingly
gained scholarly attention, particularly in light of today's urgent
and troubling issues that mark some lives as more - or less -
worthy than others, including the migration crisis, rise of
populism on a global scale, homonationalist practices, and
state-sanctioned targeting of gender, sexual, racial, and ethnic
'others'. This book aims to nuance this conversation by emphasising
feminist and queer investments and interventions and by adding the
analytical lens of cosmopolitics to ongoing debates around
life/living and death/dying in the current political climate. In
this way, we move forward toward envisioning feminist and queer
futures that rethink categories such as 'human' and 'subjectivity'
based on classical modern premises. Informed by feminist/queer
studies, postcolonial theory, cultural analysis, and critical
posthumanism, Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Cosmopolitics engages
with longstanding questions of biopolitics and necropolitics in an
era of neoliberalism and late capitalism, but does so by urging for
a more inclusive (and less violent) cosmopolitical framework.
Taking account of these global dynamics that are shaped by
asymmetrical power relations, this fruitful posthuman(ist) and
post-/decolonial approach allows for visions of transformation of
the matrix of in-/exclusion into feminist/queer futures that work
towards planetary social justice. This book is a significant new
contribution to feminist and queer philosophy and politics, and
will be of interest to academics, researchers, and advanced
students of gender studies, postcolonial studies, sociology,
philosophy, politics, and law. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Gender
Studies.
This edited volume engages with a range of geographical, political
and cultural contexts to intervene in ongoing scholarly discussions
on the intersection of nationalism with gender, sexuality and race.
The book maps and analyses the racially and sexually normativising
power of homonationalist, femonationalist and ablenationalist
dynamics and structures, three strands of research that have thus
far remained separate. Scholars and practitioners from different
geopolitical and academic contexts highlight research on the
complexities of women's, LGBTQ+ communities' and dis/abled
individuals' engagements with and subsumption within nationalist
projects. Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism:
Critical Pedagogies Contextualised offers added value for those
researching and teaching on topics related to gender, sexuality,
disability, (post)coloniality and nationalism and includes new
pedagogical strategies for addressing such timely global phenomena.
This dynamic interdisciplinary volume is ideal for those teaching
gender studies, and for students and scholars in gender studies,
international relations and sexuality studies.
Situated at the crossroads of queer theory and postcolonial
studies, Hybrid Anxieties analyzes the intertwined and composite
aspects of identities and textual forms in the wake of the
French-Algerian War (1954-1962). C. L. Quinan argues that the war
precipitated a dynamic in which a contestation of hegemonic
masculinity occurred alongside a production of queer modes of
subjectivity, embodiment, and memory that subvert norms.
Innovations in literature and cinema were also directly impacted by
the long and difficult process of decolonization, as the war
provoked a rethinking of politics and aesthetics. The novels,
films, and poetry analyzed in Hybrid Anxieties trace this
imbrication of content and form, demonstrating how a postwar
fracturing had both salutary and injurious effects, not only on
bodies and psyches but also on artistic forms. Adopting a queer
postcolonial perspective, Hybrid Anxieties adds a new impulse to
the question of how to rethink hegemonic notions of gender,
sexuality, and nationality, thereby opening up new spaces for
considering the redemptive and productive possibilities of
negotiating life in a postcolonial context. Without losing sight of
the trauma of this particularly violent chapter in history, Hybrid
Anxieties proposes a new kind of hybridity that, however anxious
and anticipatory, emphasizes the productive forces of a queer
desire to deconstruct teleological relationships between past,
present, and future.
Situated at the crossroads of queer theory and postcolonial
studies, Hybrid Anxieties analyzes the intertwined and composite
aspects of identities and textual forms in the wake of the
French-Algerian War (1954-1962). C. L. Quinan argues that the war
precipitated a dynamic in which a contestation of hegemonic
masculinity occurred alongside a production of queer modes of
subjectivity, embodiment, and memory that subvert norms.
Innovations in literature and cinema were also directly impacted by
the long and difficult process of decolonization, as the war
provoked a rethinking of politics and aesthetics. The novels,
films, and poetry analyzed in Hybrid Anxieties trace this
imbrication of content and form, demonstrating how a postwar
fracturing had both salutary and injurious effects, not only on
bodies and psyches but also on artistic forms. Adopting a queer
postcolonial perspective, Hybrid Anxieties adds a new impulse to
the question of how to rethink hegemonic notions of gender,
sexuality, and nationality, thereby opening up new spaces for
considering the redemptive and productive possibilities of
negotiating life in a postcolonial context. Without losing sight of
the trauma of this particularly violent chapter in history, Hybrid
Anxieties proposes a new kind of hybridity that, however anxious
and anticipatory, emphasizes the productive forces of a queer
desire to deconstruct teleological relationships between past,
present, and future.
This edited volume engages with a range of geographical, political
and cultural contexts to intervene in ongoing scholarly discussions
on the intersection of nationalism with gender, sexuality and race.
The book maps and analyses the racially and sexually normativising
power of homonationalist, femonationalist and ablenationalist
dynamics and structures, three strands of research that have thus
far remained separate. Scholars and practitioners from different
geopolitical and academic contexts highlight research on the
complexities of women's, LGBTQ+ communities' and dis/abled
individuals' engagements with and subsumption within nationalist
projects. Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism:
Critical Pedagogies Contextualised offers added value for those
researching and teaching on topics related to gender, sexuality,
disability, (post)coloniality and nationalism and includes new
pedagogical strategies for addressing such timely global phenomena.
This dynamic interdisciplinary volume is ideal for those teaching
gender studies, and for students and scholars in gender studies,
international relations and sexuality studies.
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