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The Specter of Materialism
Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus
Taschenbuch von Petrus Liu
Sprache: Englisch

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In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of dispossession, precarity, and the differential distribution of life chances. Despite this shift, queer theory finds itself constantly reabsorbed into the liberal project of diversity management. This theoretical and political weakness, Petrus Liu argues, stems from an incomplete understanding of capitalism's contemporary transformations, of which China has been at the center. In The Specter of Materialism Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensus-global capitalism's latest mutation-to develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality. Liu explores how relations of gender and sexuality get reconfigured to meet the needs of capital in new regimes of accumulation and dispossession, demonstrating that evolving US-Asian economic relations shape the emergence of new queer identities and academic theories. In so doing, he offers a new history of collective struggles that provides a transnational framework for understanding the nexus between queerness and material life.
In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of dispossession, precarity, and the differential distribution of life chances. Despite this shift, queer theory finds itself constantly reabsorbed into the liberal project of diversity management. This theoretical and political weakness, Petrus Liu argues, stems from an incomplete understanding of capitalism's contemporary transformations, of which China has been at the center. In The Specter of Materialism Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensus-global capitalism's latest mutation-to develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality. Liu explores how relations of gender and sexuality get reconfigured to meet the needs of capital in new regimes of accumulation and dispossession, demonstrating that evolving US-Asian economic relations shape the emergence of new queer identities and academic theories. In so doing, he offers a new history of collective struggles that provides a transnational framework for understanding the nexus between queerness and material life.
Über den Autor
Petrus Liu
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Periodizing the Post-1989 World Order 1
Part I: Theory
1. Alterity in Queer Theory and the Political Economy of the Beijing Consensus 21
2. The Specter of Materialism 52
Part II: History
3. The Subsumption of Literature: Lu Xun’s Queer Modernism in the Chinese Revolution 81
4. The Subsumption of the Cold War: The Material Unconscious of Queer Asia 104
5. The Subsumption of Sexuality: Translating Gender from the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women to the Beijing Consensus 135
Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Queer Marxism 161
Notes 165
Bibliography 195
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478019428
ISBN-10: 1478019425
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Liu, Petrus
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Petrus Liu
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.01.2023
Gewicht: 0,368 kg
Artikel-ID: 121422780
Über den Autor
Petrus Liu
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Periodizing the Post-1989 World Order 1
Part I: Theory
1. Alterity in Queer Theory and the Political Economy of the Beijing Consensus 21
2. The Specter of Materialism 52
Part II: History
3. The Subsumption of Literature: Lu Xun’s Queer Modernism in the Chinese Revolution 81
4. The Subsumption of the Cold War: The Material Unconscious of Queer Asia 104
5. The Subsumption of Sexuality: Translating Gender from the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women to the Beijing Consensus 135
Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Queer Marxism 161
Notes 165
Bibliography 195
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478019428
ISBN-10: 1478019425
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Liu, Petrus
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Books on Demand GmbH, In de Tarpen 42, D-22848 Norderstedt, info@bod.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Petrus Liu
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.01.2023
Gewicht: 0,368 kg
Artikel-ID: 121422780
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