1st Edition
Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Cosmopolitics Feminist and Queer Interventions
Introduction: Biopolitics, necropolitics, cosmopolitics – feminist and queer interventions
C.L. Quinan and Kathrin Thiele
1. The biopolitics of languaging in the cybernetic fold: a decolonial and queer ear to the cosmo-poetics
Hyaesin Yoon
2. Healing ecology in Aurora Levins Morales's writings on environmental illness
(Brena) Yu-Chen Tai
3. A Matter of lies and death – Necropolitics and the question of engagement with the aftermath of Rwanda’s Genocide
Dorothee Hölscher, Consolée Kanamugire and Hyacinth Udah
4. Bio/diversity and its deadly underside: making killable in times of emergency
Eike Marten
5. Forest futures: biopolitics, purity, and extinction in Europe’s last ‘pristine’ forest
Olga Cielemęcka
6. Queer life-worlds and the art of David Wojnarowicz
Tomasz Sikora
7. What can homonationalism tell us about sexuality in South Africa?: Exploring the relationships between biopolitics, necropolitics, sexual exceptionalism and homonormativity
Andrew Tucker
8. The many lives of fungibility: anti-blackness in neoliberal times
Shannon Winnubst
Biography
C.L. Quinan is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Utrecht University. Quinan’s research interests include trans studies, queer theory, and postcolonial studies, with work on gender, surveillance, and securitization appearing in numerous journals and edited volumes. Quinan’s first book is entitled Hybrid Anxieties: Queering the French-Algerian War and its Postcolonial Legacies (2020).
Kathrin Thiele is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Theory at Utrecht University. Her research intervenes into contemporary debates around systemic in-/equalities, de-/coloniality, and (new) materialism/(post)humanisms. She has published widely on these questions. Thiele is also Founder of the international research network Terra Critica: Interdisciplinary Network of the Critical Humanities (www.terracritica.net).
