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Dear all,
I am pleased to announce my new book which came out this month
best wishes
Adi
*Figurations of Violence and Belonging: Queerness, Migranthood and
Nationalism in Cyberspace and Beyond**
*Adi Kuntsman
Peter Lang, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New
York, Wien.
ISBN 978-3-03911-564-8 pb.
http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vID=11564&vLang=E
Violence is often seen as contradictory to belonging, as an obstacle to
it, or as a background against which belonging -- understood as the
creation of 'safe spaces' -- takes place. Instead, this book offers a
more nuanced and critical analysis of the complex relationship between
violence and belonging, by exploring the ways sexual, ethnic or national
belonging can work through, rather than against, violence. Based on an
ethnographic study of Russian-speaking, queer immigrants in
Israel/Palestine, and also in cyberspace, this book is a fascinating,
albeit at times disturbing, journey into the world of hate speech and
fantasies of torture and sexual abuse; of tormented subjectivities and
uncanny homes; of ghostly hauntings from the past and anxieties about
the present and future. The author raises daring questions about the
responsibilities of national homemaking, the complicity of queerness
within violent regimes of colonialism and war, and the ambivalence of
immigrant belonging at the intersection of marginality and privilege.
Drawing from scholarship on migration, diaspora and critical race
studies, feminist and queer theory, psychoanalysis and studies on
cyberculture, the book skillfully traces the interplay between the
different forms of violence -- physical and verbal, social and psychic,
material and semiotic -- and offers novel insights into the analysis of
nationalism, on-line sociality and queer migranthood.
/Mapping multiple displacements and fraught belongings in uncharted
virtual worlds, Adi Kunstman bravely and creatively opens up new paths
to understanding Israeli immigrant queer subjects by figuring with and
through the affective dimensions of their political and cultural lives.
Utterly convincing and provocative in her assertions regarding the
haunted travels, violent histories and discordant discourses of these
queers, Kuntsman offers us a work that will be an exemplar for future
research in the field./ -- Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of /Global
Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora /
/Deftly traversing numerous overlapping locations of belonging --
Russia, Israel, the UK, and cyberspace -- Adi Kuntsman has produced a
compelling multi-sited ethnography of forms of violence and their
constitutive and connective capacities for and between queer subjects.
Her eloquent interrogation of Israeli nationalism and anti-Palestinian
sentiment in relation to queerness is a valuable contribution to the
scholarship on sexuality and nationalism, not to mention, urgently
needed in these times. This book is not only intellectually rich but
also politically inspiring. -- /Jasbir K. Puar, author/ of Terrorist
Assemblages: Homonationalism in queer times /
/Working through intersections of Russian and Israeli, Palestinian and
Jew, queer and homophobe, home and exile, presents and pasts,
recognition and erasure, Adi Kuntsman traces the ghostly but no less
wounding acts of violence that are the conditions of belonging in
contemporary Israel/Palestine. Inhabiting sites both online and off she
shows us the realness of virtual spaces, and the virtualities that haunt
the real. Theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically rich, this
book eschews any easy reconciliations as Kuntsman insists that violence
and belonging must be thought through one another. Not only will this
book be of interest to a broad range of students and scholars, but it
addresses as well urgent questions with respect to how we might live
together in difference and more justly./ -- Lucy Suchman, Centre for
Science Studies, Lancaster University, UK
*Table of contents*
Preface
Prologue: The journey to this book
Introduction: Violence and Belonging
PART I HAUNTED FIGURES
Chapter 1 The Shadow by the Latrine
Chapter 2 The Jewish Victim
PART II BORDER FIGURES
Chapter 3 The Soldier and the Terrorist
Chapter 4 Daughter of Palestine
PART III FLAMING FIGURES
Chapter 5 The Club
Chapter 6 The Flamer
Conclusion: Belonging Through Violence
Bibliography
Index
--
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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