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Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect(Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)

Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect(Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)


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In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the human or animal. Within the field of linguistics, animacy has been described variously as a quality of agency, awareness, mobility, sentience, or liveness. Chen turns to cognitive linguistics to stress how language habitually differentiates the animate and the inanimate. Expanding this construct, Chen argues that animacy undergirds much that is pressing and indeed volatile in contemporary culture, from animal rights debates to biosecurity concerns.

Chen's book is the first to bring the concept of animacy together with queer of color scholarship, critical animal studies, and disability theory. Through analyses of dehumanizing insults, the meanings of queerness, animal protagonists in recent Asian/American art and film, the lead in toys panic in 2007, and the social lives of environmental illness, Animacies illuminates a hierarchical politics infused by race, sexuality, and ability. In this groundbreaking book, Chen rethinks the criteria governing agency and receptivity, health and toxicity, productivity and stillness-and demonstrates how attention to the affective charge of matter challenges commonsense orderings of the world.



Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Animating Animacy 1
Part I * Words
1. Language and Mattering Humans 23
2. Queer Animation 57
Part II * Animals
3. Queer Animality 89
4. Animals, Sex, and Transsubstantiation 127
Part III * Metals
5. Lead's Racial Matters 159
6. Following Mercurial Affect 189
Afterword: The Spill and the Sea 223
Notes 239
Bibliography 261
Index 283

About the Author :
Mel Y. Chen is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Review :
"Animacies is a book about "reworldings," as Mel Y. Chen traces the myriad ways that objects and affects move through and reshape zones of possibility for political transformation and queer resistance to neoliberal biopolitics. At the same time, Animacies itself generates such transformations: grounded in a generous, expansive understanding of queer of color and disability/crip critique, Chen's study reworlds or reorients disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, critical race theory, animal studies, affect studies, and linguistics. In all of these critical spaces, Animacies might be described as the breathtaking and revivifying book we have been waiting for." Robert McRuer, co-editor of Sex and Disability "This ambitious transdisciplinary analysis of the relations between humans, non-human animals, and matter charts a compelling and innovative rethinking of the biopolitics of "animacy". Chen animates animacy, a concept of sentience hierarchy derived in linguistics, to offer a far-ranging critique that implicates disability studies, queer of color critique, and postcolonial theory. The generative result is a timely and crucial intervention that foregrounds the oft-occluded import of race and sex in the rapidly-growing fields of posthumanist theory, new materialisms, and animal studies." Jasbir K. Puar, author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822352549
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 312
  • Series Title: Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
  • Weight: 576 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0822352540
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 312
  • Sub Title: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
  • Width: 152 mm


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