Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)
by Mel Y. Chen
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect is a scholarly exploration of how life, matter, race, and feeling become connected through systems of power. Drawing on queer theory and critical approaches to racialization, Mel Y. Chen examines the cultural and political significance of animacy.
About This Book
Animacies explores the relationships among biopolitics, racial mattering, and queer affect.
The book considers how ideas about life, matter, and vitality influence the ways bodies and identities are understood.
Mel Y. Chen brings together concerns associated with queer theory, racial analysis, and the study of power.
Part of the Perverse Modernities series, this work offers a theoretical examination of animacy and its cultural and political implications.
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