Fugitive Life

The Queer Politics of the Prison State

Stephen Dillon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2018
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9780822370826 (ISBN)

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During the 1970s in the United States, hundreds of feminist, queer, and antiracist activists were imprisoned or became fugitives as they fought the changing contours of U.S. imperialism, global capitalism, and a repressive racial state. In Fugitive Life Stephen Dillon examines these activists' communiquÉs, films, memoirs, prison writing, and poetry to highlight the centrality of gender and sexuality to a mode of racialized power called the neoliberal-carceral state. Drawing on writings by Angela Davis, the George Jackson Brigade, Assata Shakur, the Weather Underground, and others, Dillon shows how these activists were among the first to theorize and make visible the links between conservative "law and order" rhetoric, free market ideology, incarceration, sexism, and the continued legacies of slavery. Dillon theorizes these prisoners and fugitives as queer figures who occupied a unique position from which to highlight how neoliberalism depended upon racialized mass incarceration. In so doing, he articulates a vision of fugitive freedom in which the work of these activists becomes foundational to undoing the reign of the neoliberal-carceral state.

Stephen Dillon is Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Queer Studies in the School of Critical Social Inquiry at Hampshire College.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. "Escape-Bound Captives": Race, Neoliberalism, and the Force of Queerness 1
1. "We're Not Hiding but We're Invisible": Law and Order, the Temporality of Violence, and the Queer Fugitive 27
2. Life Escapes: Neoliberal Economics, the Underground, and Fugitive Freedom 54
3. Possessed by Death: Black Feminism, Queer Temporality, and the Afterlife of Slavery 84
4. "Only the Sun Will Bleach His Bones Quicker": Desire, Police Terror, and the Affect of Queer Feminist Futures 119
Conclusion. "Being Captured Is Beside the Point": A World beyond the World 143
Notes 155
Bibliography 171
Index 185

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2018
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	295 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9780822370826 / 9780822370826
Zustand	Neuware