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Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
Mel Y. Chen
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Description for Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
Paperback. Rethinks the criteria governing agency and receptivity, health and toxicity, productivity and stillness Series: Perverse Modernities. Num Pages: 312 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 442.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822352723
SKU
V9780822352723
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About Mel Y. Chen
Mel Y. Chen is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Reviews for Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
“This work is a bricolage demonstrating the dexterity of cultural studies today in its explorations of the limits of live- liness. Although the work speaks primarily to queer theory and Asian American studies, it will stir anthropologists of multiple subfields.”
Rheana Salazar Parrenas
American Anthropologist
“To read Mel Chen’s book Animacies is both a challenge and a ... Read more
Rheana Salazar Parrenas
American Anthropologist
“To read Mel Chen’s book Animacies is both a challenge and a ... Read more