Queer Entanglements

Queer Entanglements
Title Queer Entanglements PDF eBook
Author Damien W. Riggs
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 239
Release 2021-07-29
Genre Medical
ISBN 1108488862

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This book explores LGBQTNB people's relationships with animals, examining a complex menagerie of human-animal relationships.

Queer Conflict Research

Queer Conflict Research
Title Queer Conflict Research PDF eBook
Author Jamie J. Hagen
Publisher Policy Press
Pages 279
Release 2024-02-19
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1529225078

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Bringing together a team of international scholars, this volume provides a foundational guide to queer methodologies in the study of political violence and conflict. Contributors provide illuminating discussions on why queer approaches are important, what they entail and how to utilise a queer approach to political violence and conflict. The chapters explore a variety of methodological approaches, including fieldwork, interviews, cultural analysis and archival research. They also engage with broader academic debates, such as how to work with research partners in an ethical manner. Including valuable case studies from around the world, the book demonstrates how these methods can be used in practice. It is the first critical, in-depth discussion on queer methods and methodologies for research on political violence and conflict.

Surreal Entanglements

Surreal Entanglements
Title Surreal Entanglements PDF eBook
Author Louise Economides
Publisher Routledge
Pages 192
Release 2021-05-18
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1000388344

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This edited collection approaches the most pressing discourses of the Anthropocene and posthumanist culture through the surreal, yet instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer’s fiction. In contrast to universalist and essentializing ways of responding to new material realities, VanderMeer’s work invites us to re-imagine human subjectivity and other collectivities in the light of historically unique entanglements we face today: the ecological, technological, aesthetic, epistemological, and political challenges of life in the Anthropocene era. Situating these messy, multi-scalar, material complexities of life in close relation to their ecological, material, and colonialist histories, his fiction renders them at once troublingly familiar and strangely generative of other potentialities and insight. The collection measures VanderMeer’s work as a new kind of speculative surrealism, his texts capturing the strangeness of navigating a world in which "nature" has become radically uncanny due to global climate change and powerful bio-technologies. The first collection to survey academic engagements with VanderMeer, this book brings together scholars in the fields of environmental literature, science fiction, genre studies, American literary history, philosophy of technology, and digital cultures to reflect on the environmentally, culturally, aesthetically, and politically central questions his fiction poses to predominant understandings of the Anthropocene.

Medical Entanglements

Medical Entanglements
Title Medical Entanglements PDF eBook
Author Kristina Gupta
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 190
Release 2019-10-25
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1978806612

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Medical Entanglements uses intersectional feminist, queer, and crip theory to move beyond “for or against” approaches to medical intervention. Using a series of case studies – sex-confirmation surgery, pharmaceutical treatments for sexual dissatisfaction, and weight loss interventions – the book argues that, because of systemic inequality, most mainstream medical interventions will simultaneously reinforce social inequality and alleviate some individual suffering. The book demonstrates that there is no way to think ourselves out of this conundrum as the contradictions are a product of unjust systems. Thus, Gupta argues that feminist activists and theorists should allow individuals to choose whether to use a particular intervention, while directing their social justice efforts at dismantling systems of oppression and at ensuring that all people, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, class, or ability, have access to the basic resources required to flourish.

TRANSPOSITIONES 2024 Vol. 3, Issue 2: Queer Animalities

TRANSPOSITIONES 2024 Vol. 3, Issue 2: Queer Animalities
Title TRANSPOSITIONES 2024 Vol. 3, Issue 2: Queer Animalities PDF eBook
Author Gabriela Jarzębowska
Publisher V&R unipress
Pages 103
Release 2024-10-07
Genre
ISBN 3737016372

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This issue explores two distinct yet deeply interconnected areas of academic debate – animal studies and queer studies. The concept of queer ecology has gained a growing interest in the academia, highlighting the importance of intersectional understanding of ecological, multi-species and sexual exclusions and entanglements. The authors gathered in this issue engage with the connections between animalities and queerness in a way that casts a new light on these concepts. They do so in a variety of ways in which entanglements between them may occur while providing in-depth, theoretical analyses of what implications arise from bringing them under one umbrella.

Queer Times, Queer Becomings

Queer Times, Queer Becomings
Title Queer Times, Queer Becomings PDF eBook
Author E. L. McCallum
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 374
Release 2011-11
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN

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Queer theory essays on time and becoming in the fields of literature, philosophy, film, and performance.

Out of Time

Out of Time
Title Out of Time PDF eBook
Author Rahul Rao
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 289
Release 2020-03-09
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0190865539

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Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer rights. The law attracted attention for the draconian nature of its provisions and for the involvement of US evangelical Christian activists who were said to have lobbied for its passage. Focusing on the Ugandan case, this book seeks to understand the encounters and entanglements across geopolitical divides that produce and contest contemporary queerphobias. It investigates the impact and memory of the colonial encounter on the politics of sexuality, the politics of religiosity of different Christian denominations, and the political economy of contemporary homophobic moral panics. In addition, Out of Time places the Ugandan experience in conversation with contemporaneous developments in India and Britain--three locations that are yoked together by the experience of British imperialism and its afterlives. Intervening in a queer theoretical literature on temporality, Rahul Rao argues that time and space matter differently in the queer politics of postcolonial countries. By employing an intersectional analysis and drawing on a range of sources, Rao offers an original interpretation of why queerness mutates to become a metonym for categories such as nationality, religiosity, race, class, and caste. The book argues that these mutations reveal the deep grammars forged in the violence that founds and reproduces the social institutions in which queer difference struggles to make space for itself.