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Call for paper proposals for the AAA panel (via SOLGA). Please send your 
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*Queer necropolitics: lives, deaths and the end(s) of queer anthropology*
The topic of death is far from new to gay and lesbian anthropologists. 
However, recent developments in Western queer politics suggest an 
important political shift from those queers who are left to die (through 
HIV/AIDs or denial of reproduction and parenting), to queers that 
reproduce life (Puar 2007). Yet, not all queers are 'fostered for 
living'; just as only some queer deaths are constituted grievable 
(Butler 2004). When looking at the simultaneous expansion of liberal gay 
politics and its complicity within the US 'war on terror', Jasbir Puar 
calls our attention to the 'differences between queer subjects who are 
being folded (back) into life and the racialised queernesses that emerge 
through the naming of populations', often those marked for death (2007: 
36.).  Inspired by Achille Mbembe's concept of necropolitics -- a 
concept he develops when analysing subalternity, race and war and terror 
(Mbembe 2003) -- and by Puar's insightful notion of queer necropolitics, 
this panel seeks to explore the relations between queerness and war, 
immigration, colonisation, imprisonment and other forms of population 
control. At the time of military invasions, colonial struggles and the 
simultaneously globalised and nationalised 'wars on terror', what is the 
place of queerness in formations of race, nation and citizenship? What 
are the practices -- institutional, discursive, affective -- through 
which some queers are 'disciplined into subjecthood, narrated into 
population, and fostered for living' (Puar 2007: 36) while others are 
regulated through death? What are the responsibilities of producing 
anthropological knowledge about sexuality in contexts where such 
knowledge is repeatedly mobilised by military strategists and colonial 
entrepreneurs? And what is the role of queer anthropology in 
conceptualising the dangerous alliances that are often formed between 
right-wing patriotism and the discourse of GLBT rights? Speakers are 
invited to reflect on these and related questions and address topics 
such as regimes of grievability in formations of queer subjects; queer 
colonialities; ethnographic accounts of the relations between queer 
lives and deaths; and racialisation of queer politics at the times of 
the 'war on terror'.

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Dr. Adi Kuntsman
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures
The University of Manchester
Second Floor, Arthur Lewis Building, room 2.007
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
_http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/index.html_
_http://adi.kuntsman.googlepages.com_

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