Intoxicated - Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy Across Empire

Mel Y. Chen explores how the mutual entanglements of race, imperialism and disability take form as a racialized and marginalized intoxicated subject.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Intoxications, Intimacies, and Interformations  1
1. Slow Constitution: Down Syndrome and the Logic of Development  18
2. Agitation as a Chemical Way of Being  62
3. Unlearning: Intoxicated Method  100
Afterwards: Telling the End Not to Wait  142
Notes  165
Bibliography  177
Index

About the author

Mel Y. Chen is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. They are author of Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect and coeditor of Crip Genealogies, both also published by Duke University Press.

Product details

• Authors: Mel Y Chen, Mel Y. Chen
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.12.2023
• EAN: 9781478025320
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-2532-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories