Area impossible
In this special issue authors investigate whether the omision of area studies within queer studies constitute a willed refusal to name the epistemological genres that US political initiatives have taken outside its territorial borders, a refusal to concede perhaps that these very commonplaces might hold the residue of post-Cold War settler colonial intimations. Containing the following articles: - Ground Zero / by Neferti X.M. Tadiar - On being area-studies : a litany of complaint / by Keguro Macharia - The are(n)a of the story / by Ronaldo V. Wilson - We have always been queer / by Diana Taylor - Queer theory and permanent war / Maya Mikdashi and Jasbir K. Puar - Backward futures and pasts forward: queer time, sexual politics, and Dalit religiosiy in South India / by Lucinda Ramberg - Voyages across indenture : from ship sister to Mannish woman / Aliyah Khan - Queer studies / African Studies : an (im)possible transaction? / by Asley Currier and Thérèse Migraine-George
- Creator
- Arondekar, Anjali
- Patel, Geeta
- Tadiar, Neferti X.M.
- Macharia, Keguro
- Wilson, Ronaldo V.
- Taylor, Diana
- Mikdashi, Maya
- Puar, Jasbir K.
- Ramberg, Lucinda
- Khan, Aliyah
- Currier, Ashley
- Migraine-George, Thérèse