Queer Lovers and Hateful Others

Regenerating Violent Times and Places

Jin Haritaworn (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2015
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-3062-4 (ISBN)

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Exploring the tension between Queerness and Islamophobia, and how the elite reinforce the politics of homonationalism.

Queer subjects have become acceptable in society only through being cast in the shadow of the new folk devil, the 'homophobic migrant' who is rendered by society as hateful and disposable.

This book explores this concept of 'queer regeneration'. Queerness has entered a transitional phase as it becomes co-opted by neoliberalism to make punishment and neglect appear as signs of care and love for diversity. To understand this transition, Jin Haritaworn looks at the environments in which queer bodies have become worthy of protection, discussing the everyday erasures that shape life in the inner city (focusing on Berlin), and how queer activists actively seek out and dispel the myths of sites of nostalgia for the 'invented traditions' of women-and-gay-friendliness.

The author explores a rich archive of media, arts, policy and activism, including posters, newspaper reports, hate crime action plans, urban projects, psychological studies, demonstrations, kiss-ins, political speeches and films. Through these sources, the relationships between Islamaphobia, racism within Europe and the United States, and the global war on terror serves to reinforce the politics of homonationalism.

Jin Haritaworn is Assistant Professor of Gender, Race and Environment at York University in Canada. They are the author of Queer Lovers and Hateful Others (Pluto, 2015).

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Queer Regenerations

1. Setting the Scene

2. Love

3. Hate

4. Queer Nostalgia

5. Conclusion: Kiss Good Morning, Kiss Good Night

6. Epilogue: Beyond the ‘Most Homophobic’

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.7.2015
Reihe/Serie	Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons
Zusatzinfo	6 b&w photographs
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 215 mm
Gewicht	384 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-7453-3062-2 / 0745330622
ISBN-13	978-0-7453-3062-4 / 9780745330624
Zustand	Neuware