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Journal Article
GLQ (2017) 23 (1): 154–156.
Published: 01 January 2017
... PROSTITUTION
Sexual Commerce as Precarity and Possibility in Mumbai, India
Maura Finkelstein
Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai
Svati P. Shah
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. xvii + 280 pp.
Within activist...
Journal Article
GLQ (2018) 24 (1): 113–138.
Published: 01 January 2018
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emphasizes the physical toll impressed on subjects living within precarity. José
Muñoz (2013: 106) ascribes this physicality to “the punk who staggers forth in
a mosh pit, hurling herself against another body, not to do harm, but instead to
touch in a way not predicated on mastery...
Journal Article
GLQ (2022) 28 (4): 617–637.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and precarity of visual culture and everyday life throughout Mexico. Thus, while focused on Mexico and more specifically Mexico City, this article poses and seeks to answer a larger question on queer and transfeminist aesthetics and world making, namely, whether dissident art forms can lose their ability...
FIGURES
Journal Article
GLQ (2021) 27 (3): 357–377.
Published: 01 June 2021
... polvo be read as prescient for how coloniality lingers as enduring conditions of debility and precarity. Ramos Otero's affinity for finitude, figured through polvo, counterintuitively conjures a relational desire that privileges the porous, the marginal, and the always precarious possibility of survival...
Journal Article
GLQ (2021) 27 (3): 407–429.
Published: 01 June 2021
..., also presents a challenge to approach queer life oriented from positions of precarity with greater seriousness, opening space for generative seepages between modes of past and present isthmian sapphic living. References Ahmed Sara . 2006 . “ Orientations: Toward a Queer Phenomenology...
FIGURES
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GLQ (2015) 21 (2-3): 249–272.
Published: 01 June 2015
... real and fictive, should not authorize the overlook
ing of the social antagonisms and contradictions that each character’s singular
instances are embedded in. To do so would be to fall victim to what Sharpe and
Brown rightly term “the romance of precarity.”32 Under the spell of this romance...
Journal Article
GLQ (2023) 29 (3): 419–421.
Published: 01 June 2023
... on the experience of those made to live a damaged life, a life that is “produced by, and not remedied through, legal intervention or state mobilizations” (39). Atmospheres of Violence examines forms of criminalization, precarity, exposure to violence, systemic misrecognition, and outright exclusion that shape...
Journal Article
GLQ (2021) 27 (4): 603–627.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the intersection of racialized sexual living with discourses of life expectancy and precarity in which Living with Pride 's articulation of longevity intervenes and to which it responds. 22 While Ellis's “I didn't know I could live this long” speaks to the nonspecific unknowability attached to human...
Journal Article
GLQ (2022) 28 (1): 151–152.
Published: 01 January 2022
... in a neoliberal, post–Cold War context. Women's rights, gay and trans rights, and the notion of sexual liberation are not marginal to these debates; rather, they help to constitute and define the fault lines between different positions. Under conditions of imperial violence, diasporic precarity...
Journal Article
GLQ (2015) 21 (2-3): 183–207.
Published: 01 June 2015
..., a “smolder[ing] with . . . life and persistence.”44 This emphasis on histo-
ries of damage is in keeping with one consistent provocation across the diffuse
and multiple body of work that we seek to name, imperfectly, by “queer theory”:
its emergence as a response to precarity. Queer...
Journal Article
GLQ (2017) 23 (3): 431–433.
Published: 01 June 2017
... within and beyond academe (163). Indeed, the
term precarity takes on significance in specific social contexts, which need to be
articulated by fine ethnographic works such as this one.
According to the same logic, ethnographic methods are always derived
from, and embedded in, given social...
Journal Article
GLQ (2015) 21 (2-3): 365–385.
Published: 01 June 2015
... and on the refusal of it — are imbricated in racialized forms of car-
bon privilege that disperse social and biological precarity.6 Thus Fanon’s empha-
sis on colonialism’s spatial reproduction of racial disposability must be rethought
in relation to today’s carbon-fueled exterminations of peoples, species...
Journal Article
GLQ (2019) 25 (4): 649–656.
Published: 01 October 2019
... and feminist philosophers have explored the implications of ontological conceptions of vulnerability as the basis for making ethical claims on the state, queer studies scholars have turned to vulnerability and af liated concepts, such as precarity and dispossession, as the basis for understand- ing human...
Journal Article
GLQ (2023) 29 (1): 144–147.
Published: 01 January 2023
... Chicanx trans folks—narratological pressures that have, historically, policed access to gender affirming treatment and resources. Galarte writes with the ethos of Eva Hayward's ( 2017 ) claim that universalist narratives entail “an investment in nameable identity over and against the precarity...
Journal Article
GLQ (2020) 26 (1): 63–101.
Published: 01 January 2020
... argue that the rentier paradigm fails to take into account how the relationship between the citizen and the state extends beyond the economic: namely, how the structures of privilege and precarity give rise to the production of the indebted subject. In particular, the post- oil generation in the UAE...
Journal Article
GLQ (2015) 21 (1): 165–168.
Published: 01 January 2015
... to the “postcolonial father state” (91). Here Lim
mines English language-theater in Singapore to investigate how the state both
disciplines and liberates queer subjects, whose precarity would seem largely con-
tingent on whether they acquiesce to cosmopolitan capitalism. Insofar as Singa-
pore’s gay citizenry...
Journal Article
GLQ (2022) 28 (3): 473–477.
Published: 01 June 2022
... demand and are left unemployed after the tenure of a targeted intervention ends? Lakkimsetti's ethnography does not account for these precarities that often drive these so-called agents of the state back into stigmatized professions like sex work without any bargaining power with clients on compensation...
Journal Article
GLQ (2021) 27 (3): 493–497.
Published: 01 June 2021
... California. Their research sits with queer and trans political life in El Salvador and pries into questions of affect, homonationalism, and experiential precarity. Their work has appeared in Cultural Anthropology and Revista Identidades . They are one of the founders of AMATE El Salvador, an LGBTQ...
Journal Article
GLQ (2022) 28 (2): 159–163.
Published: 01 April 2022
... that has always been present in queer life, we see more public debates about excluding cops from Pride marches. It is in this context of attending to simultaneously the heightened precarities of the immediate now and the accumulating histories of both retrenched hegemony and lived refusals of the terms...
Journal Article
GLQ (2011) 17 (2-3): 381–387.
Published: 01 June 2011
... they are relations to anonymous others, to institu-
tions, to states, or to nongovernmental agencies.
If we bear responsibility within such a scene, it follows from the fact that
no one escapes the threat of precarity or the need for social and political orga-
nizations...
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