Queer Terror - Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony

C. Heike Schotten offers a critique of U.S. settler-colonial empire that draws on political, queer, and critical indigenous theory to reframe the concept of terrorism. She provides an anatomy of the War on Terror's moralism, arguing for a new interpretation of biopolitics that is focused on sovereignty and desire rather than racism and biology.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Biopolitics of Empire: Slavery and “the Muslim”
2. The Biopolitics of Settlement: Temporality, Desire, and Civilization
3. Foucault and Queer Theory
4. Society Must Be Destroyed
5. Queer Terror
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

C. Heike Schotten is associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of Nietzsche’s Revolution: Décadence, Politics, and Sexuality (2009).

Summary

C. Heike Schotten offers a critique of U.S. settler-colonial empire that draws on political, queer, and critical indigenous theory to reframe the concept of terrorism. She provides an anatomy of the War on Terror's moralism, arguing for a new interpretation of biopolitics that is focused on sovereignty and desire rather than racism and biology.

Additional text

In the face of settler sovereignty’s efforts to cure and conquer queers, terrorists, and savages who fail to fit the
biopolitical mold of 'the good life,' Schotten offers nothing less than a robust call to remain savagely incurable as a means of resisting US settler colonialism.

Product details

• Authors: C. Heike Schotten, Professor C. Heike Schotten, Schotten C. Heike
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9780231187466
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18746-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: New Directions in Critical Theory; New Directions in Critical The; New Directions in Critical Theory
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Political science & theory, c 1500 onwards to present day, United States of America, USA, Empires & historical states, History of the Americas, Political science and theory, History and Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Historical states, empires, territories and regions