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Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony
ISBN: 9780231547284
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Biopolitics -- Philosophy; War on Terrorism 2001–2009; Fear -- United States; Marginality Social -- United States;

C. Heike Schotten offers a critique of U.S. settler-colonial empire that draws on political, queer, and critical indigenous theory to reframe the concept of terrorism. She provides an anatomy of the War on Terror's moralism, arguing for a new interpretation of biopolitics that is focused on sovereignty and desire rather than racism and biology.

C. Heike Schotten (PhD, Political Science, Notre Dame) is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the author of Nietzsche's Revolution: Decadence, Politics, and Sexuality (Palgrave, 2009) and has published articles in International Feminist Journal of Politics, Foucault Studies, New Political Science, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, differences, Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, Jadaliyya , and Politics and Gender . Her article "Nietzsche/Pentheus: The Last Disciple of Dionysus and Queer Fear of the Feminine" won the American Political Science Association's 2009 Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory.C. Heike Schotten is associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of Nietzsche's Revolution: Décadence, Politics, and Sexuality (2009).