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Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony

Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony

Schotten, C. Heike

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Series: New Directions in Critical Theory, Book 59

PhilosophyInternational RelationsGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 0231187475
ISBN13: 9780231187473
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Aug 21 2018
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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