Queer Economies

Authors

  • Ladelle McWhorter University of Richmond

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i14.3891

Abstract

Queer defies categorization and resists preset developmental trajectories. Practices of queering identities emerged near the end of the twentieth century as ways of resisting normalizing networks of power/knowledge. But how effective are queer practices at resisting networks of power/knowledge (including disciplines) that are not primarily normalizing in their functioning? This essay raises that question in light of expanding neoliberal discourses and institutions which, in some quarters at least, themselves undermine normalized identities in favor of a proliferation of personal styles susceptible to governance through market forces. Special attention is given to Security, Territory, Population and The Birth of Biopolitics in this analysis.

Author Biography

Ladelle McWhorter, University of Richmond

Ladelle McWhorter is the author of Bodies and Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Sexual Normalization (Indiana, 1999), Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy (Indiana, 2009), and more than two dozen articles on Foucault, Bataille, Irigaray, and race theory. With Gail Stenstad, she edited a revised and greatly expanded second edition of her 1992 anthology Heidegger and the Earth: Essays in Environmental Philosophy, which was issued by Toronto University Press in 2009. She holds the James Thomas Chair in Philosophy and is also a Professor of Environmental Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia.

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Published

2012-09-14

How to Cite

McWhorter, L. (2012). Queer Economies. Foucault Studies, (14), 61–78. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i14.3891

Issue

Number 14: September 2012: Foucault and Queer Theory

Section

Special Issue on Foucault and Queer Theory

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