Blackwashing Homophobia: Violence and the Politics of Sexuality, Gender and Race

Description: Blackwashing Homophobia by Melanie Judge Drawing on primary research on lesbian subjectivity in South Africa, this timely book examines research on lesbian and gay identities to explore the contemporary politics of homophobia related violence in a postcolonial context. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description As lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identities increasingly secure legal recognition across the globe, these formal equality gains are contradicted by the continued presence of violence. Such violence emerges as a political pressure point for contestations of identity and power within wider systems of global and local inequality. Discourses of homophobia-related violence constitute subjectivities that enact violence and that are rendered vulnerable to it, as well as shaping political possibilities to act against violence.Blackwashing Homophobia critiques prevailing discourses through which violence and its queer targets are normatively understood, exploring the knowledge regimes in which multiple forms of othering are both reproduced and/or resisted. This book draws on primary research on lesbian subjectivity and violence in South Africa examining the intersections of sexual, gender, race and class identities, and the contemporary politics of violence in a postcolonial context:• What are the contending ways of knowing queers and the violence they face? • How are the causes, characters, consequence of, and cures for, violence constructed through such knowledges and what are their power effects? The book explores these questions and their implications for how violence, as an instrument of power, might be countered.Blackwashing Homophobia is a timely intervention for theorising the discourse of homophobia-related violence and what it reveals and conceals, enables and hinders, in relation to queer identities and political imaginaries in times of violence. The books interdisciplinary approach to the topic will appeal to social and political scientists, philosophers and psychology professionals, as well as to advanced psychology undergraduates and postgraduates alike. Author Biography Melanie Judge is a queer and feminist activist, and Adjunct Associate Professor, and research associate at the Centre for Law and Society, in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town. Table of Contents Introduction: (Un)settling Violence Chapter 1. "Double the Trouble": Gender and Sexuality (Un)corrected Chapter 2. The Violence of Racialisation, The Racialisation of Violence Chapter 3. View to a Kill: The Politics of Spectacle Chapter 4. Assimilation and Ascendance: Violent Differentiation in Post-Colonial Context Chapter 5. Law, Education and a Not-Only LGBT Revolution Conclusion: Trouble the Dreams of Political Possibility Details ISBN1138219045 Author Melanie Judge Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd ISBN-10 1138219045 ISBN-13 9781138219045 Format Hardcover Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Year 2017 Subtitle Violence and the Politics of Sexuality, Gender and Race Affiliation University of the Western Cape Publication Date 2017-08-22 Pages 158 Series Concepts for Critical Psychology DEWEY 306.766 Short Title Blackwashing Homophobia Language English UK Release Date 2017-08-22 AU Release Date 2017-08-22 NZ Release Date 2017-08-22 Illustrations 1 Halftones, black and white Alternative 9781138219052 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139479226;

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