Area Impossible: The Geopolitics of Queer Studies Contributor(s): Arondekar, Anjali (Editor), Patel, Geeta H. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0822368412 ISBN-13: 9780822368410 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $10.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Lgbt Studies - General - Social Science | Regional Studies - Political Science | Geopolitics |
Dewey: 306.766 |
Series: Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.8" W x 9.7" (0.80 lbs) 175 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Lesbian - Sex & Gender - Gay |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Staging a much-needed conversation between two often-segregated fields, this issue addresses the promising future of queer and area studies as collaborative formations. Within queer studies, the turn to geopolitics has challenged the field's logics of time, space, and culture, which have routinely been rooted in the United States. For area studies, the focus on diaspora, forced migration, and other transnational trajectories has unmoored the geopolitical from the stability of nations as organizing concepts. The contributors to this issue seek to imagine and broker conversations between the two fields in which "area" becomes the form through which epistemologies of empire and market are critiqued. Histories of debt bondage; sexuality, and indentured labor; Afro-pessimism in African studies; trans theater facing obdurate transits; religion and the politics of Dalit modernity; the biopolitics of maiming: these are some of the conduits through which the authors approach a queer geopolitics. Contributors: Anjali Arondekar, Ashley Currier, Aliyah Khan, Keguro Macharia, Th r se Migraine-George, Maya Mikdashi, Geeta Patel, Jasbir K. Puar, Lucinda Ramberg, Neferti Tadiar, Diana Taylor, Ronaldo Wilson |