Queer Futures: Reconsidering Ethics, Activism, and the Political

by Beatrice Michaelis, Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Eveline Kilian

Overview

Following debates surrounding the anti-social turn in queer theory in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the role of activism, the limits of the political, and the question of normativity and ethics. Queer Futures engages with these concerns, exploring issues of complicity and agency with a central focus on the material and economic as well as philosophical dimensions of sexual politics. Presenting some of the latest research in queer theory, this book draws together diverse perspectives to shed light on possible ‘queer futures’ when different affective, temporal, and local contexts are brought into play. As such, it will appeal to scholars of cultural, political, literary, and social theory, as well as those with interests in gender and sexuality, activism, and queer theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409471790
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	02/28/2013
Series:	Queer Interventions
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

Elahe Haschemi Yekani is Professor of English Literature at the University of Flensburg, Germany.
Eveline Kilian is Professor of English Literature and Culture and Co-Director of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Beatrice Michaelis is Head of Research and Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany.

Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Eveline Kilian, Beatrice Michaelis, Adrian de Silva, Francis Ray White, Heike Raab, Lena Eckert, Jan Simon Hutta, Dominique Grisard, Vojin Saša Vukadinovic, José Esteban Muñoz, Bobby Benedicto, Amy Villarejo, Jens Borcherding, Roderick A. Ferguson, Jack Halberstam, Aidan T.A. Varney, Ingeborg Svensson.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introducing queer futures, Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Eveline Kilian and Beatrice Michaelis; Section I Framing Activism, Adrian de Silva; No fat future? The uses of anti-social queer theory for fat activism, Francis Ray White; Cripping the visual: visual politics in crip queer activism, Heike Raab; Intersexualization and queer anarchist futures, Lena Eckert; Beyond the politics of inclusion: securitization and agential formations in Brazilian LGBT parades, Jan Simon Hutta; Pink prisons, rosy futures? The prison politics of the pink triangle, Dominique Grisard. Section II Beyond the Political?, Vojin Saša Vukadinovic; Race, sex, and the incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, José Esteban Muñoz; The Third World queer, Bobby Benedicto; Queers in concrete: media and intervention, Amy Villarejo. Section III Ethical Challenges and the Lures of Normativity, Jens Borcherding; Queering the inorganic, Jeffrey J. Cohen; The queer ethic and the spirit of normativity, Roderick A. Ferguson; Queer betrayals, Jack Halberstam; Queer theory does it raw: the sociopolitical (un)intelligibility of barebackers’ bodies, Aidan T.A. Varney; Affirm survival: on queer strategies of resistance at queer funerals, Ingeborg Svensson; Index.