Atmospheres of violence : structuring antagonism and the trans/queer ungovernable / Eric A. Stanley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanley, Eric A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trans people--Violence against--United States.

Trans people.

Gender-nonconforming people--Violence against--United States.

Gender-nonconforming people.

African American trans people--Violence against--United States.

African American trans people.

Trans people--Minorities--Violence against--United States.

Gender-nonconforming people--Minorities--Violence against--United States.

Minority trans women--Violence against--United States.

Minority trans women.

Transphobia--Political aspects--United States.

Transphobia.

Homophobia--Political aspects--United States.

Homophobia.

Transgender people--Violence against.

Minority transgender women.

Minorities.

Transgender people.

African American transgender people.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 184 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Atmospheres of Violence is a study of the forms of violence levied against trans/queer and gender nonconforming people in the United States. While the recent past, roughly from the Stonewall uprisings of 1969 to the present, is usually narrated as a time of LGBT equality, with the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, the expansion of hate crimes legislation, and marriage equality, during this same period there has been an escalation in murders of trans women, particularly those who are Black and Brown. It is within this contradiction, which Eric A. Stanley argues is a structuring antagonism, that Atmospheres of Violence dwells. Rather than suggesting that such violence is evidence of individual phobias, Stanley asserts that the consistency of such harms points to a much larger structure of our social world. Atmospheres of Violence offers a theory of anti-trans/queer violence that works to unsettle the individual actor and offers an analysis, built through a motley archive of suicide notes, AIDS activist histories, surveillance tapes, prison interviews, and other ephemera of attack, that situates these forms of violence as central to, and not an aberration from, liberal democracy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Near life : overkill and ontological capture

Necrocapital : blood's general strike

Clocked : surveillance, opacity, and the image of force

Death drop : becoming the universe at the end of the world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Stanley, Eric A. Atmospheres of violence.

ISBN:

9781478013303

1478013303

9781478014218

1478014210

OCLC:

1223067486