Queer Futures

Reconsidering Ethics, Activism, and the Political

Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Eveline Kilian, Beatrice Michaelis, Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Eveline Kilian, Beatrice Michaelis

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317072751
• Subtopic: LGBT Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Following debates surrounding the anti-social turn in queer theory in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the role of activism, the limits of the political, and the question of normativity and ethics. Queer Futures engages with these concerns, exploring issues of complicity and agency with a central focus on the material and economic as well as philosophical dimensions of sexual politics. Presenting some of the latest research in queer theory, this book draws together diverse perspectives to shed light on possible 'queer futures' when different affective, temporal, and local contexts are brought into play. As such, it will appeal to scholars of cultural, political, literary, and social theory, as well as those with interests in gender and sexuality, activism, and queer theory.

Index

All index entries shown here correspond to the page numbers within the printed edition only. Within this digital format these page numbers allow for cross referencing only.

academy 4, 145, 165–6, 169, 173, 192

ACT UP xvii, 2, 192

activism xiv, xvii, xviii, 1–6, 13, 17–19, 21–2, 24, 26, 28–9, 31–3, 37–8, 42, 44, 51–2, 54, 56, 58–62, 67–73, 78–9, 84, 89–90, 93, 103, 178–9

affect, affective, affectiveness xv, 2, 5, 8, 17–18, 59–60, 62, 67, 77, 84–5, 88, 93 101, 118–19, 120, 126–8, 141, 149, 153, 157, 160, 187, 203, 210

Agamben, Giorgio 200

agency xviii, 3–4, 9, 17, 31, 78–9, 93, 100, 146, 153–4, 157–9, 174, 178, 185

agent, agential, agentic 3–4, 7–9, 31, 67, 77–8, 138, 156, 159, 205, 215

Aguilar, Filomeno V. 123

AIDS see HIV/AIDS

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) 85

anarchism viii, 51, 57

anthropocentric, anthropocentricity xx, 146, 151, 156

anti-communitarian, anti-communitarianism 177, 180, 187

anti-social, anti-sociality xviii, xxi, 10–12, 18, 22–5, 29, 31, 33, 52, 58, 62, 145–6, 150, 177, 195, 200–201, 204, 214–15

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Series Editor's Preface Toward a Non-Queer Theory
• Acknowledgments
• Introducing Queer Futures
• Section I Framing Activism
• Section II Beyond the Political?
• Section III Ethical Challenges and the Lures of Normativity
• Index