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.
- Publisher : Floating Opera Press
- Release Date: December 12, 2023
- Language : English
- Paperback : 92 pages
- ISBN-10 : 3982389461
- ISBN-13 : 978-3982389462
- Item Weight : 3.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 4.75 x 0.5 x 6.75 inches