Introduction

Queer Faith ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Melissa E. Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Critical Race Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Race Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Change Ambivalence

The introduction surveys this book’s stakes in debates within queer theory, critical race studies, early modern studies, and postsecular studies. Discussing the affordances of taking seriously the religious metaphors that continue to shape discourses of secular love, it outlines the ways in which Renaissance love lyrics provide a valuable archive to modern queer challenges to norms of monogamous coupledom and sovereign subjectivity. It proposes that rather than assume the coherence of faith, this poetry explores an ethics of promiscuity in which awareness of shared vulnerability entails a more challenging acceptance of shared propensity to change, ambivalence, and self-deceit. It further traces the history of the concept of secularity from its Protestant roots and, joining a number of postsecular theorists, argues that attending to the persistence of religious thought in modern culture can compel a confrontation with the racial dimensions of queer views of the autonomy of desire. Moreover, in suggesting that we may never have been secular, the introduction shows how attentiveness to Christian theology’s queer assumptions can help to contest normative associations of Christianity with unique innocence and morality, and a progressive periodization that sets modernity off from its others.

Laplanche and the anti-racist unconscious, rewriting seduction, listening to the noise

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-63
Author(s):  
Bogdan Popa
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Critical Race Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Race Studies ◽  
Soviet Film ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Violence

This article proposes the idea of an anti-racist unconscious to respond to problems raised by Jean Laplanche’s conceptualisation of ‘enigmatic messages’. In reversing the dynamic between the seducer and the seduced, I ask: What if a racialised person produces messages that will disturb a legacy of slavery and its history of violence? In drawing on an intersectional analytic inspired by queer theory, post-socialist theory, critical race studies and Roma studies, this article suggests that Laplanche’s enigmatic messages (‘noises’) can function as epistemological interventions seeking to decolonise a Euro-American imagination. Given that the unconscious has been conceptualised according to modes of storytelling that speak from the standpoint of institutions of white domination, I show that the unconscious can function as an anti-racist epistemological site. I focus my analysis on a Soviet film (The Fiddlers, Loteanu, 1971) to identify how enigmatic messages lead to Roma tactics such as the counterfeit and the curse, which respond to racialised violence either by terrifying the oppressors or by taking back resources from them.

Cultural Melancholy

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jermaine Singleton
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Social Space ◽  
The United States ◽  
Critical Race Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Studies ◽  
Performance Culture ◽  
Unresolved Grief ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
And Performance

A daring cultural and literary studies investigation, this book explores the legacy of unresolved grief produced by ongoing racial oppression and resistance in the United States. Using analysis of literature, drama, musical performance, and film, the book demonstrates how rituals of racialization and resistance transfer and transform grief discreetly across time, consolidating racial identities and communities along the way. It also argues that this form of impossible mourning binds racialized identities across time and social space by way of cultural resistance efforts. The book develops the concept of “cultural melancholy” as a critical response to scholarship that calls for the clinical separation of critical race studies and psychoanalysis; excludes queer theoretical approaches from readings of African American literatures and cultures; and overlooks the status of racialized performance culture as a site of serious academic inquiry and theorization. In doing so, the book weaves critical race studies, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and performance studies into conversation to uncover a host of hidden dialogues—psychic and social, personal and political, individual and collective—for the purpose of promoting a culture of racial grieving, critical race consciousness, and collective agency.

scholarly journals Antidiscrimination Meets Integration Policies: Exploring New Diversity-Related Challenges in Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 221
Author(s):  
Tina Magazzini
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Studies ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Race Studies ◽  
Managing Diversity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Migrant Integration ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Contemporary European societies are increasingly diverse. Migration both within and to Europe has contributed over the past decades to the rise of new religious, racial, ethnic, social, cultural and economic inequality. Such transformations have raised questions about the (multi-level) governance of diversity in Europe, thus determining new challenges for both scholars and policy-makers. Whilst the debate around diversity stemming from migration has become a major topic in urban studies, political science and sociology in Europe, Critical Race Studies and Intersectionality have become central in US approaches to understanding inequality and social injustice. Among the fields where ‘managing diversity’ has become particularly pressing, methodological issues on how to best approach minorities that suffer from multiple discrimination represent some of the hottest subjects of concern. Stemming from the interest in putting into dialogue the existing American scholarship on CRT and anti-discrimination with the European focus on migrant integration, this paper explores the issue of integration in relation to intersectionality by merging the two frames. In doing so, it provides some observations about the complementarity of a racial justice approach for facing the new diversity-related challenges in European polity. In particular, it illustrates how Critical Race Studies can contribute to the analysis of inequality in Europe while drawing on the integration literature.

Violence and Masculinity

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Eibach
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Violent Crimes ◽  
Grand Theory ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Violence ◽  
Shed Light

A consistent overrepresentation of men in recorded violent crimes and thus a certain disposition of male aggressiveness has been evident from the late Middle Ages to today. However, we can also detect several major shifts in the history of interpersonal male violence from the eighteenth century onward. From a cultural historical perspective, violent actions by men or women cannot be interpreted as contingent, individual acts, but rather must be seen as practices embedded in sociocultural contexts and accompanied by informal norms. Because one grand theory cannot account convincingly for the history of violence and masculinity, an array of approaches is more likely to shed light on the issue. Interestingly, shifts in the history of violence have often corresponded with changes to prevailing notions of masculinity. This essay delineates the relevant historical shifts from the early modern “culture of dispute” to the different paths of interpersonal violence over the twentieth century.

The Social History of Skepticism: Experience and Doubt in Early Modern Culture

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 533
Author(s):  
Christopher S. Celenza ◽  
Brendan Dooley
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Social History ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of
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