Category: books

Edited by Srećko Horvat and Igor Štiks
Verso Books, 2014

This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies and oligarchical “democracies.” The contributions deconstruct the persistent imaginary of the Balkans, pervasive among outsiders to the region, who see it as no more than a repository of ethnic conflict, corruption and violence. Providing a much needed critical examination of the Yugoslav socialist experience, the volume sheds light on the recent rebirth of radical politics in the Balkans, where new groups and movements struggle for a radically democratic vision of society.

Edited by Jin Haritaworn, Adi Kuntsman, Silvia Posocco
Routledge, 2014

This book comes at a time when the intrinsic and self-evident value of queer rights and protections, from gay marriage to hate crimes, is increasingly put in question. It assembles writings that explore the new queer vitalities within their wider context of structural violence and neglect. Moving between diverse geopolitical contexts – the US and the UK, Guatemala and Palestine, the Philippines, Iran and Israel – the chapters in this volume interrogate claims to queerness in the face(s) of death, both spectacular and everyday.

by Fatima El Tayeb
University of Minnesota Press, 2011

European Others offers an interrogation into the position of racialized communities in the European Union, arguing that the tension between a growing nonwhite, non-Christian population and insistent essentialist definitions of Europeanness produces new forms of identity and activism. Moving beyond disciplinary and national limits, Fatima El-Tayeb explores structures of resistance, tracing a Europeanization from below in which migrant and minority communities challenge the ideology of racelessness that places them firmly outside the community of citizens.

Editoras: Yuderkis Espinosa Miñoso, Diana Gómez Correal y Karina Ochoa Muñoz
Universidad del Cauca, 2014.

“Los textos feministas que hemos seleccionado para esta compilación, desde nuestro punto de vista, producen desplazamientos político-epistémicos a la racionalidad occidental del feminismo eurocentrado. Articulan análisis, miradas, hipótesis que enfrentan la narrativa convencional construida y alimentada por los marcos clásicos de interpretación feminista, pero lo hacen desde una apuesta que prioriza las voces sistemáticamente relegadas o ignoradas por un discurso blanco-burgués feminista que niega las diferencias entre ‘las mujeres’ y por tanto, produce, por un lado, lugares de enunciación privilegiados, y por el otro, marginales.

Además de contribuir a la divulgación de estas voces y pensamientos ‘otros’ del Sur, el texto busca aportar a la construcción de una genealogía feminista comprometida con la crítica a la colonialidad, que debe ser recogida no solo por el feminismo sino por la propuesta descolonial en su conjunto. Esta compilación busca responder a un vacío existente mediante la difusión de las voces que configuran parte de esta corriente que vincula feminismo y descolonialidad.”

Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake (ed.)
Raw Nerve Books, 2008

Out of Place asks daring and timely questions about the silence at the heart of queer studies. Discussing ‘race’ alongside ‘queer’ often submerges raciality within queerness, leaving racialised groups silent and silenced -‘out of place’. Out of Place creates a space where queerness/raciality are brought together in creative tension to disturb these silences: to hear the invisible, to see the inaudible.

Out of Place takes the reader through an inspiring, illuminating and at times painful journey. The book explores queerness/raciality in the context of the ‘war on terror’; corporeal and social practices in and of space;relations between visibility and politics; and cultural, literary, linguistic and theoretical mechanisms of translation. The papers in Out of Place cut across academic theory, arts, activism, the media and everyday life. All the contributors to Out of Place address queerness/ raciality as a theoretical and political tool to analyse and challenge their own fields, epistemologies and ontologies. This groundbreaking and fascinating book is not just about what happens at the intersection of ‘queer’ and ‘race’, but also about how this intersection relates to and animates other aspects of life.