Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Cosmopolitics: Feminist and Queer Interventions

The book Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Cosmopolitics emphasizes feminist and queer investments and interventions and adds the analytical lens of cosmopolitics to ongoing debates around life/living and death/dying in the current political climate. It aims to envision feminist and queer futures that rethink categories such as 'human and 'subjectivity based on classical modern premises.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 116 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The concepts of biopolitics and necropolitics have garnered increasing scholarly attention, particularly in the context of contemporary issues that assign varying levels of worth to different lives, such as the migration crisis, the rise of populism on a global scale, homonationalist practices, and state-sanctioned targeting of gender, sexual, racial, and ethnic "others." This book seeks to complicate this conversation by highlighting feminist and queer investments and interventions and by incorporating the analytical lens of cosmopolitics into ongoing debates surrounding life/living and death/dying in the current political climate. By doing so, we aim to move forward in envisioning feminist and queer futures that challenge traditional categories like "human" and "subjectivity" based on classical modern premises.

Drawing from feminist/queer studies, postcolonial theory, cultural analysis, and critical posthumanism, Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Cosmopolitics engages with longstanding questions of biopolitics and necropolitics in the era of neoliberalism and late capitalism. However, it does so by advocating for a more inclusive and less violent cosmopolitical framework. This approach, informed by global dynamics shaped by asymmetrical power relations, enables us to envision transformative possibilities for feminist/queer futures that work towards planetary social justice.

This book constitutes a substantial and groundbreaking contribution to feminist and queer philosophy and politics. It will appeal to academics, researchers, and advanced students in the fields of gender studies, postcolonial studies, sociology, philosophy, politics, and law. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Gender Studies.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367714895