Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)
by Mel Y. Chen
A critical study of biopolitics, racial mattering, and queer affect that interrogates hierarchies of life and nonhuman relations.
About This Book
Animacies examines how concepts of life, matter, and affect intersect with race and sexuality.
The work draws on biopolitical theory to analyze cultural representations of animacy hierarchies.
Chen investigates the politics of mattering across human and nonhuman boundaries.
The book engages with queer affect to reconsider relations between bodies and environments.
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