Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Cosmopolitics

ISBN-13: 9780367714895 / Miękka / 2023 / 116 str.

Opis

This book 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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Biopolitics, necropolitics, cosmopolitics – feminist and queer interventions

C.L. Quinan and Kathrin Thiele

1. The biopolitics of languaging in the cybernetic fold: a decolonial and queer ear to the cosmo-poetics

Hyaesin Yoon

2. Healing ecology in Aurora Levins Morales's writings on environmental illness

(Brena) Yu-Chen Tai

3. A Matter of lies and death – Necropolitics and the question of engagement with the aftermath of Rwanda’s Genocide

Dorothee Hölscher, Consolée Kanamugire and Hyacinth Udah

4. Bio/diversity and its deadly underside: making killable in times of emergency

Eike Marten

5. Forest futures: biopolitics, purity, and extinction in Europe’s last ‘pristine’ forest

Olga Cielemęcka

6. Queer life-worlds and the art of David Wojnarowicz

Tomasz Sikora

7. What can homonationalism tell us about sexuality in South Africa?: Exploring the relationships between biopolitics, necropolitics, sexual exceptionalism and homonormativity

Andrew Tucker

8. The many lives of fungibility: anti-blackness in neoliberal times

Shannon Winnubst

O autorze

C.L. Quinan is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Utrecht University. Quinan’s research interests include trans studies, queer theory, and postcolonial studies, with work on gender, surveillance, and securitization appearing in numerous journals and edited volumes. Quinan’s first book is entitled Hybrid Anxieties: Queering the French-Algerian War and its Postcolonial Legacies (2020).

Kathrin Thiele is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Theory at Utrecht University. Her research intervenes into contemporary debates around systemic in-/equalities, de-/coloniality, and (new) materialism/(post)humanisms. She has published widely on these questions. Thiele is also Founder of the international research network Terra Critica: Interdisciplinary Network of the Critical Humanities (www.terracritica.net).