Area Impossible: The Geopolitics of Queer Studies
Anjali Arondekar
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Paperback. Editor(s): Arondekar, Anjali R.; Patel, Geeta H. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; GTB; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 171 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
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Staging a much-needed conversation between two often-segregated fields, this issue addresses the promising future of queer and area studies as collaborative formations. Within queer studies, the turn to geopolitics has challenged the field's logics of time, space, and culture, which have routinely been rooted in the United States. For area studies, the focus on diaspora, forced migration, and other transnational trajectories has unmoored the geopolitical from the stability of nations as organizing concepts. The contributors to this issue seek to imagine and broker conversations between the two fields in which "area" becomes the form through which epistemologies of empire and ... Read more
Contributors: Anjali Arondekar, Ashley Currier, Aliyah Khan, Keguro Macharia, Thérèse Migraine-George, Maya Mikdashi, Geeta Patel, Jasbir K. Puar, Lucinda Ramberg, Neferti Tadiar, Diana Taylor, Ronaldo WilsonShow Less
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
373g
Number of Pages
175
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822368410
SKU
V9780822368410
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About Anjali Arondekar
Anjali Arondekar is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India, also published by Duke University Press. Geeta Patel is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures and the Program in Women, Gender ... Read more
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