Birgit Mara Kaiser

Kathrin Thiele

Mercedes Bunz

This book explores the future of critique in view of our planetary condition. How are we to intervene in contemporary constellations of finance capitalism, climate change and neoliberalism? Think we must! To get to the symptoms, the book's 38 terms ranging from affect and affirmation to world and work provide the reader with a critical toolbox to be continued. Negativity, judgment and opposition as modes of critique have run out of steam. Critique as an attitude and a manner of enquiry has not.

A Critical Vocabulary

Symptoms of the Planetary Condition

Gilles Deleuze's Poetics of Life

The Thought of Becoming

C.L. Quinan

The concepts of biopolitics and necropolitics have increasingly gained scholarly attention, particularly in light of today’s urgent and troubling issues that mark some lives as more – or less – worthy than others, including the migration crisis, rise of populism on a global scale, homonationalist practices, and state-sanctioned targeting of gender, sexual, racial, and ethnic ‘others’. This book aims to nuance this conversation by emphasising feminist and queer investments and interventions and by adding the analytical lens of cosmopolitics to ongoing debates around life/living and death/dying in the current political climate. In this way, we move forward toward envisioning feminist and queer futures that rethink categories such as ‘human’ and ‘subjectivity’ based on classical modern premises. Informed by feminist/queer studies, postcolonial theory, cultural analysis, and critical posthumanism, Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Cosmopolitics engages with longstanding questions of biopolitics and necropolitics in an era of neoliberalism and late capitalism, but does so by urging for a more inclusive (and less violent) cosmopolitical framework. Taking account of these global dynamics that are shaped by asymmetrical power relations, this fruitful posthuman(ist) and post-/decolonial approach allows for visions of transformation of the matrix of in-/exclusion into feminist/queer futures that work towards planetary social justice. This book is a significant new contribution to feminist and queer philosophy and politics, and will be of interest to academics, researchers, and advanced students of gender studies, postcolonial studies, sociology, philosophy, politics, and law. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Gender Studies.

Feminist and Queer Interventions

Biopolitics, Necropolitics, Cosmopolitics

Rosemarie Buikema

Liedeke Plate

Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture, 2nd edition is a comprehensive gender studies textbook with an international focus and relevance across a broad range of academic disciplines. Covering an array of topics, theories and approaches to gender studies, it introduces students to the study of gender through geographically diverse case studies on different historical and contemporary figures. The volume covers the established canon of gender studies, including questions of representation, standpoints and intersectionality. It addresses emerging areas including religion, technology and online feminist engagement, as well as complex contemporary phenomena such as globalization, neoliberalism and ‘fundamentalism’. Core figures ranging from Simone de Beauvoir to Gloria Anzaldua and from Florence Nightingale to Malala Yousafzai serve as prisms of gender-sensitive analysis for each chapter. This vibrant textbook is essential reading for anyone in need of an accessible yet sophisticated guide to gender studies today.

A Comprehensive Guide to Gender Studies

Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture

Die Gender Studies haben sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten sowohl im akademischen als auch im breiteren öffentlichen Diskurs als bereichernde Perspektive fest etabliert. Doing Gender in Medien-, Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften: Eine Einführung liefert fundiertes und zugängliches Wissen und gibt theoretische Werkzeuge an die Hand, die zu gendersensitiven Analysen von Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft befähigen. Diese Einführung richtet sich vor allem an Studierende und Lehrende in den Gender Studies, aber sie gibt auch einer breiteren Leserschaft ein facettenreiches Bild dieser jungen und politisch engagierten Wissenschaft.

Kathrin Thiele

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