Perverse Politics?: Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity Vol: 30

Julian Go
Boston University, USA

Ann Shola Orloff
Northwestern University, USA

Raka Ray
University of California at Berkeley, USA

Evren Savci
San Francisco State University, USA


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Hardback
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9781786350749
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Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Dimensions:
200 pages - 152 x 229 x 17mm
Series:
Political Power and Social Theory
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In this special issue, we address what we refer to as 'perversity of the political' or 'perverse politics': namely, the assumptions political theory and movements, and in our specific case feminism, often make on behalf of their subjects, and how their subjects, in return, perform individual and collective contrariness, unruliness and resistance to what is expected or desired from their 'subjectivity'. Specifically focusing on the themes of 'false consciousness', multiplicity, and uneasy alliances, the papers collected here seek to empirically lay out a number of such 'perverse' moments, and offer anti-imperialist feminist alternatives to second wave feminism's often reductive understandings of freedom; emancipation; oppression; empowerment and democracy.

Introduction: Perverse Politics? Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity - Ann Shola Orloff, Raka Ray and Evren Savc?Perverse Humanitarianism and the Business of Rescue: What’s Wrong with NGOs and What’s Right about the “Johns”? - Kimberly Kay HoangRedemptive Capitalism and Sexual Investability - Elizabeth BernsteinTroubling the Subject of Violence: The Pacifist Presumption, Martial Maternalism, and Armed Women in Contemporary Gun Culture - Jennifer CarlsonFeminism/s in Power: Rethinking Gender Equality after the Second Wave - Ann Shola Orloff and Talia ShiffContextualizing the Closet: NAZ, Law, and Sexuality in Postcolonial India - Savina BalasubramanianSubjects of Rights and Subjects of Cruelty: The Production of an Islamic Backlash against Homosexuality in Turkey - Evren Savc?
Edited by Ann Shola Orloff, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USARaka Ray, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USAEvren Savci, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA

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