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Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect - Perverse Modernities

Mel Y. Chen

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Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect - Perverse Modernities

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Reimagining agency in race, health, and queerness.

If you're drawn to the intersections of queer theory, race studies, and environmental philosophy, "Animacies" is an enlightening dive into these complex relations. Mel Y. Chen offers thought-provoking insights on how various forms of life, language, and matter intersect with issues of social justice. It's a challenging read, but it might entirely reshape your understanding of agency and matter in the biopolitical sphere.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect - Perverse Modernities

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ISBN: 9780822352723
Author: Mel Y. Chen
Date of Publication: 2012-07-10
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Politics, Philosophy, Sociology
Related Topics: Theory, Gender, Feminism, Race
Goodreads rating: 4.06
(rated by 305 readers)

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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 toy 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 affect
 

Reimagining agency in race, health, and queerness.

If you're drawn to the intersections of queer theory, race studies, and environmental philosophy, "Animacies" is an enlightening dive into these complex relations. Mel Y. Chen offers thought-provoking insights on how various forms of life, language, and matter intersect with issues of social justice. It's a challenging read, but it might entirely reshape your understanding of agency and matter in the biopolitical sphere.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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