Against Citizenship: The Violence of the Normative (Dissident Feminisms)
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (966 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0252081501 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 236 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Brandzel's focus on three legal case studies--same-sex marriage law, hate crime legislation, and Native Hawaiian sovereignty and racialization--exposes how citizenship confounds and obscures the mutual processes of settler colonialism, racism, sexism, and heterosexism. Against Citizenship argues that whenever we work on behalf of citizenship, whenever we work towards including more types of peoples under its reign, we inevitably reify the violence of citizenship against nonnormative others. In this way, Brandzel argues that citizenship requires anti-intersectionality, that is, strategies that deny the mutuality and contingency of race, class, gender, sexuality and nation--and how, oftentimes, progressive left activists and scholars follow suit.. Numerous activists and scholars have appealed for rights, inclusion, and justice in the name of "citizenship." Against Citizenship provocatively shows that there is nothing redeemable about citizenship, nothing worth salvaging or sustaining in the name of "community," practice, or belonging. According to Brandzel, citizenship is a violent dehumanizin
"Against Citizenship will be regarded as one of the most important books in queer and feminist theory of its generation. Broad in its intellectual scope, Brandzel's deft skill at bridging feminist and queer studies with critical ethnic studies and critical Indigenous studies offers a model for the kind of intersectional analysis required to understand and challenge the violence of normativities. It is a powerful read."--Karma Chavez, author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities "This thoughtful, energizing, and inspiring work should be commended for scholars and activists alike who are engaged in sociopolitical critique."--H-Net Reviews
Intersectionally Brilliant In this groundbreaking work, Amy Brandzel reframes what it means to do transnational intersectional analysis. Against Citizenship adds to our collective scholarly understanding of transnational critique by tracing settler colonial forces through nuanced examinations of gay marriage law, hate crimes law, and a close reading of Rice v. Cayetano (2000), which is a Supreme Court case involving a white citizen's challenge to Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) sovereignty. Against Citizenship asks us, as readers, to contemplate what is required for unsettling, or denaturalizing, the settler logics of normative citizenship's racialization, ge. "A MUST READ!!" according to Jmc0150. This book is incredible! It is a MUST read for any queer and/or feminist activists and scholars. Brandzel offers a incisive, critical analysis of normativity that is crucial to understanding how power works today, and they bring together multiple bodies of scholarship to demonstrate how the anti-intersectional strategies of the state work against any real address of inequality. This book will be required reading for undergraduate and graduate courses that I teach in queer studies and/or feminist theory, as well as any courses focused on citizenship in the United States.. Erin Debenport said Brandzel's use of case studies in concert with contemporary social science theory would make this text useful as a whole or as s. As an anthropologist, this book helped me understand critiques of the concepts of citizenship (and understandings of sovereignty) from feminist, queer, critical Indigenous, and legal perspectives. Brandzel's use of case studies in concert with contemporary social science theory would make this text useful as a whole or as selections in graduate and advanced undergraduate courses, especially as a way to critique the ideas of individuals as independent, rights-bearing agents with a priori relationships to the state. Important, fiercely intersectional, and a good read!