TONIGHT: CHANDAN REDDY, "Precarity After Rights: On Queer of Color Critique" Next Mon. March 19, 6:00PM
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M. Hilaire
Mar 19, 2012, 11:03:47 AM3/19/12
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CHANDAN REDDY
Precarity After Rights: On Queer of Color Critique
MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2012
6:00 - 8:00 PM
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor, NYC
In this talk, Chandan Reddy argues for viewing U.S. gay and lesbian politics, such as the movement for gay marriage, as expressing a key tension within contemporary neoliberalism, namely the dual movements to develop more elaborate forms of social recognition through the expansion of rights while restructuring and restricting the role of the political state. This has led to what Reddy terms "precarity after rights,” in which social democracy is submitted to legal protocols that simultaneously expand rights while diminishing the sources of state power that enable its redistributive functions. Reddy argues that queer of color social practices constitute alternatives to the diminishing horizon of democracy created by this historical moment, not as appeals to the political sphere but as examples of new understandings of violence and publicity.
Chandan Reddy is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle.
He is the author of the recently published book, Freedom With Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State (Duke UP, 2011).
Reddy has also written a number of influential essays and articles on race, sexuality and late capitalism, including “Asian Diasporas, Neoliberalism, and Family” (Social Text 2005) and “Time for Rights?” (Fordham Law Review 2008).
Madala Hilaire
madala....@nyu.edu
CHANDAN REDDY
Precarity After Rights: On Queer of Color Critique
MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2012
6:00 - 8:00 PM
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor, NYC
In this talk, Chandan Reddy argues for viewing U.S. gay and lesbian politics, such as the movement for gay marriage, as expressing a key tension within contemporary neoliberalism, namely the dual movements to develop more elaborate forms of social recognition through the expansion of rights while restructuring and restricting the role of the political state. This has led to what Reddy terms "precarity after rights,” in which social democracy is submitted to legal protocols that simultaneously expand rights while diminishing the sources of state power that enable its redistributive functions. Reddy argues that queer of color social practices constitute alternatives to the diminishing horizon of democracy created by this historical moment, not as appeals to the political sphere but as examples of new understandings of violence and publicity.
Chandan Reddy is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of the recently published book, Freedom With Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State (Duke UP, 2011). Reddy has also written a number of influential essays and articles on race, sexuality and late capitalism, including “Asian Diasporas, Neoliberalism, and Family” (Social Text 2005) and “Time for Rights?” (Fordham Law Review 2008).
Madala Hilaire
madala....@nyu.edu
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