"Affect and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism: Pedagogies for the Renewal of Democratic Education, suggests ideas about affective pedagogies for educators to use (along with recognizing the risks involved) to renew democratic education"
Wow this book is great! I didn't know about necropolitics before, and now I've got a clear explanation of this new (to me) concept and its connection to sentimentality. Now I can explain why pleas for greater empathy for children's suffering is problematic if they are not connected to the expansion of children's agency (not "interests") and adult's responsibilities toward children (not paternalism or "deciding what's best").
Provincializing Intersex: U.S. Intersex Activism, Human Rights, and Transnational Body Politics
D. A. Rubin, 2019
"the transnational regulation of sexed bodies occurs not only through the globalization of Western biomedical conceptions of sex/gender normativity, but also through global circulations of human rights discourse and impositions of US neoliberal democratic frames of subjectivity."
Resisting Biopolitics: New Perspectives on the Government of Life edited by Marco Piasentier
This cutting-edge volume discusses the philosophical, social, and political notions of biopolitics, as well as the ways in which biopower affects all aspects of our lives, including the relationships between the human and nonhuman, the concept of political subjectivity, and the connection between art, science, philosophy, and politics. @bookstodon #books #nonfiction #biopolitics #biopower #life
"The Biopolitics of Gender" by Jemima Repo is a mind-meltingly good book.
"The idea of gender identity, I argue, emerged in conjunction with the transsexual subject, which was entangled with other budding attempts to regulate the emotional economy of families to maintain a sexual order of things around the social, political, and economic ideal of the nuclear family."
"Repo endeavors to agitate the idea of gender as a "major object and analytical tool of contemporary Western feminism" that has been naturalized as a discursive and historical fact in science, politics, and government."
"Race, and racial difference, was understood as the differential capacity to be plastic. Whiteness was fully malleable, fully capable of progress or decline, and blackness was at the opposite, barely plastic except for maybe a few years at the beginning of youth. This is the underlying scientific framework that holds children as key leaders for managing the racial body of the future." -Kyla Schuller interview
"Through analyses of evolutionary theories, gynecological sciences, abolitionist poetry and other literary texts, feminist tracts, child welfare reforms, and black uplift movements, Schuller excavates a vast apparatus that regulated the capacity of sensory and emotional feeling in an attempt to shape the evolution of the national population. Her work exposes how models of binary sex function as one of the key mechanisms of racializing power."