Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War

Kapadia connects the local and the global, recognizing the connection between domestic legislation and foreign policy, and between federal policing and global military power. The book illuminates these insurgent practices by featuring the cultural production of diasporic artistic workers who live in...

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Published in:Arab studies quarterly 2021-01, Vol.43 (1), p.73-74
Main Author: Atshan, Saʻed
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetics
Artists
Book publishing
Diaspora
Insurgency
International relations
Israel
Reasoning
Securitization
United States
Violence
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Summary:Kapadia connects the local and the global, recognizing the connection between domestic legislation and foreign policy, and between federal policing and global military power. The book illuminates these insurgent practices by featuring the cultural production of diasporic artistic workers who live in the heart of Western empire and produce forms of solidarity with communities in their respective nations of origin in the Middle Eastern, Muslim, or South Asia. Kapadia selects radical artist-activists who reflect how aesthetics can serve as alternative forms of knowledge and critique. [...]a "queer calculus" emerges through the "alternative logic or system of reasoning produced by cultural workers" (24).
ISSN:0271-3519
2043-6920
DOI:10.13169/arabstudquar.43.1.0073