A Queer Theory of the State

By Samuel Clowes Huneke

Book Overview

Queer theory has often been hesitant to align itself with a politics of the state, approaching it with a negative or pragmatic framework. A Queer Theory of the State expands an earlier online essay from The Point by historian Samuel Huneke to offer a more optimistic perspective. Rather than eschew political engagement with democratic theorizing, Huneke asks how queer theory can wed its critically anti-normative impulses to the empirical need for a state. In answering this question, Huneke shows how the state is an integral component of a politics that seeks to subvert and undo the oppression of queer lives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3982389461
• ISBN13: 9783982389462
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Floating Opera Press
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.7" x 6.6"