Empire and the dispositif of queerness

Foucault Studies

Volumn , Issue 14, 2012, Pages 41-60

  Nichols, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Civilization; Dispositif; Empire; Liberalism; Queerness; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867565807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18325203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22439/fs.v0i14.3890     Document Type: Review

References (33)

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2. Cited in Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow, Michel Foucault. Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1982), 187.
3. Michel Foucault, "The Confession of the Flesh," in Colin Gordon (ed.), Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 (NY: Pantheon, 1980), 194-228, 194.
4. Recent texts that have influenced the reading of empire here include Brett Bowden, The Empire of Civilization (Chicago: Chicago UP, 2009)
5. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2000), Multitude (NY: Penguin Press, 2004) and Commonwealth (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2009)
6. James Tully, Public Philosophy in a New Key, vol. II: Imperialism and Civic Freedom (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008), and; Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Empire of Capital (London & NY: Verso, 2003).
7. Michael Doyle, Empires (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1986), 45.
8. especially, Michel Foucault, "The Subject and Power," in The Essential Foucault, 126-144.
9. Judith Butler, Frames of War (London & NY: Verso, 2009), 105-106.
10. Interview with Frank Poorthuis, 'De islam is een eachterlijke culturr,' Volkskrant, 09/02/02. Available at: http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2824/ Politiek/article/detail/611698/2002/02/09/De-islam-is-een-achterlijke-cultuur. dhtml. Last accessed on September 23, 2011 [Original in Dutch].
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14. From Daniel Ottoson, State Sponsored Homophobia: A World Survey of Laws Prohibiting Same Sex Activity Between Consenting Adults, for the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (2009). Available at http://ilga.org/Statehomophobia/ILGA-State-Sponsored-Homophobia-2009.pdf. Last accessed April 13, 2010.
15. Jasbir Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Durham: Duke UP, 2007).
16. Lisa Duggan, The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy (Boston: Beacon Press, 2003)
17. Michael Warner, The Trouble with Normal: Sex, politics and the ethics of queer life (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2000).
18. Puar, 2.
19. Puar, 114.
20. Puar, 4.
21. Dean Spade, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law (NY: South End Press, 2011).
22. Chandan Reddy, Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State (Durham: Duke UP, 2011).
23. Michael Cobb, God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence (NY: NYU Press, 2006).
24. Puar, 20-21.
25. Brett Bowden, The Empire of Civilization, 7.
26. Michel Foucault, "What is Enlightenment?," in The Essential Foucault, 48.
27. Robert Nichols, "Postcolonial Studies and the Discourse of Foucault," Foucault Studies, No. 9 (Sept. 2010), 111-144.
28. Cf. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000).
29. Cf. Marc Epprecht, Heterosexual Africa?: The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS (Athens: Ohio UP, 2008).
30. Foucault, "What is Enlightenment?," 53.
31. Wendy Brown, Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in an Age of Identity and Empire (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), 8. Other important contributions to this literature are the essays collected in Toleration and Its Limits edited by Melissa Williams and Jeremy Waldron (NY: NYU Press, 2008) and The Culture of Toleration in Di-verse Societies, edited by Catriona McKinnon and Dario Castiglione (NY & Manchester: Manchester UP, 2003).
32. Jodi Melamed, Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011), 9.
33. Melamed, 139.