| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 241 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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New directions in critical theory
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New directions in critical theory.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
After Sept. 11, 2001, George W. Bush declared, "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." Bush's assertion was not simply jingoist bravado--it encapsulates the civilizationalist moralism that has motivated and defined the United States since its beginning, linking the War on Terror to the nation's settlement and founding. In Queer Terror, C. Heike Schotten offers a critique of U.S. settler-colonial empire that draws on political, queer, and critical indigenous theory to situate Bush's either/or moralism and reframe the concept of terrorism. The categories of the War on Terror exemplify the moralizing politics that insulate U.S. empire from critique, render its victims deserving of its abuses, and delegitimize resistance to it as unthinkable and perverse. Schotten provides an anatomy of this moralism, arguing for a new interpretation of biopolitics that is focused on sovereignty and desire rather than racism and biology. This rethinking of biopolitics puts critical political theory of empire in dialogue with the insights of both native studies and queer theory. Building on queer theory's refusal of sanctity, propriety, and moralisms of all sorts, Schotten ultimately contends that the answer to Bush's ultimatum is clear: dissidents must reject the false choice he presents and stand decisively against "us," rejecting its moralism and the sanctity of its "life," in order to further a truly emancipatory, decolonizing queer politics. |
| Contents |
The biopolitics of empire : slavery and "the Muslim" -- The biopolitics of settlement : temporality, desire, and civilization -- Foucault and queer theory -- Society must be destroyed -- Queer terror -- Bibliography. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Biopolitics -- Philosophy.
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Biopolitics. |
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Philosophy. |
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
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War on Terrorism (2001-2009) |
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Fear -- United States.
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Fear. |
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United States. |
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Marginality, Social -- United States.
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Marginality, Social. |
| Chronological Term |
2001-2009 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schotten, C. Heike. Queer terror. New York : Columbia University Press, [2018] 9780231187466 (DLC) 2018007538 (OCoLC)1035225630 |
| ISBN |
9780231547284 (electronic book) |
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0231547285 (electronic book) |
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9780231187466 |
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0231187467 |
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9780231187473 |
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0231187475 |
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