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Specter of Materialism Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus

Liu Petrus
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781478019428
Publisert
2023-01-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
386 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Liu Petrus

Om bidragsyterne

Petrus Liu is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Boston University and author of Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, also published by Duke University Press, and Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History.

Specter of Materialism Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus

Liu Petrus
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk
Liu Petrus
Heftet / 2023 / Engelsk
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"Petrus Liu’s <i>The Specter of Materialism</i> is intellectually courageous and theoretically sophisticated, advancing both queer theory and Marxist thought. This review has only scratched the surface of this paradigm-shifting work. Scholars of queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, Marxism, and China Studies will all find this book indispensable for their fields."

- Wenqing Kang, Modern Chinese Literature And Culture

"<i>The Specter of Materialism</i> is a major intervention into its announced three arenas of inquiry: queer theory, Marxism, and China. ...The product of many years of thinking and refining, Liu here extends the inquiry into asking and answering two questions: why does queer theory in China and elsewhere need Marxism, and why does Marxism need queer theory and China? These, as he shows, are intertwined problems of a global materialist history of capitalism that haunt our present, and they are problems of how to think from China about the world we currently inhabit. ... We would do well to follow Liu’s lead."

- Rebecca Karl, Chinese Literature

"Petrus Liu’s work constitutes an indispensable force in both queer studies and Chinese studies."

- Flair Donglai Shi, Asian Studies Review

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"Together with his previous book <i>Queer Marxism in Two Chinas</i>, Petrus Liu’s <i>The Specter of Materialism </i>makes a major and invaluable contribution to creating a truly global queer Marxism. . . . Queer Marxists have a lot to learn from Liu about China’s central place in the spheres of geopolitics, economics, gender and sexuality. At the same time, queer Marxists will enthusiastically welcome his insistence that queer studies need to be far more materialist."

- Peter Drucker, Dialogues in Human Geography

"A groundbreaking work. . . . This book offers insightful interventions that carry substantial significance."

- Charlie Yi Zhang, Journal of Asian Studies

In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of dispossession, precarity, and the differential distribution of life chances. Despite this shift, queer theory finds itself constantly reabsorbed into the liberal project of diversity management. This theoretical and political weakness, Petrus Liu argues, stems from an incomplete understanding of capitalism’s contemporary transformations, of which China has been at the center. In The Specter of Materialism Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensus—global capitalism’s latest mutation—to develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality. Liu explores how relations of gender and sexuality get reconfigured to meet the needs of capital in new regimes of accumulation and dispossession, demonstrating that evolving US-Asian economic relations shape the emergence of new queer identities and academic theories. In so doing, he offers a new history of collective struggles that provides a transnational framework for understanding the nexus between queerness and material life.
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Petrus Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensus—global capitalism’s latest mutation—to develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality.
Les mer
Acknowledgments  ix Introduction: Periodizing the Post-1989 World Order  1 Part I: Theory 1. Alterity in Queer Theory and the Political Economy of the Beijing Consensus  21 2. The Specter of Materialism  52 Part II: History 3. The Subsumption of Literature: Lu Xun’s Queer Modernism in the Chinese Revolution  81 4. The Subsumption of the Cold War: The Material Unconscious of Queer Asia  104 5. The Subsumption of Sexuality: Translating Gender from the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women to the Beijing Consensus  135 Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Queer Marxism  161 Notes  165 Bibliography  195 Index
Les mer
“Petrus Liu’s scholarship on the geopolitical material conditions of queer theorizing is unparalleled. In this magisterial book, he dispenses with endless rumination on the liberal subject, instead training our attention on the relationship between a queer theory that functions as American area studies and the Cold War and its ongoing realities. He profoundly reorganizes what queer theory was, is, or could be, while illuminating queer horizons of struggle that are intimately, not peripherally or derivatively, interlaced with internationalist anticapitalist movements. A tour de force!”
Les mer

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"Petrus Liu’s <i>The Specter of Materialism</i> is intellectually courageous and theoretically sophisticated, advancing both queer theory and Marxist thought. This review has only scratched the surface of this paradigm-shifting work. Scholars of queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, Marxism, and China Studies will all find this book indispensable for their fields."

- Wenqing Kang, Modern Chinese Literature And Culture

"<i>The Specter of Materialism</i> is a major intervention into its announced three arenas of inquiry: queer theory, Marxism, and China. ...The product of many years of thinking and refining, Liu here extends the inquiry into asking and answering two questions: why does queer theory in China and elsewhere need Marxism, and why does Marxism need queer theory and China? These, as he shows, are intertwined problems of a global materialist history of capitalism that haunt our present, and they are problems of how to think from China about the world we currently inhabit. ... We would do well to follow Liu’s lead."

- Rebecca Karl, Chinese Literature

"Petrus Liu’s work constitutes an indispensable force in both queer studies and Chinese studies."

- Flair Donglai Shi, Asian Studies Review

Se alle

"Together with his previous book <i>Queer Marxism in Two Chinas</i>, Petrus Liu’s <i>The Specter of Materialism </i>makes a major and invaluable contribution to creating a truly global queer Marxism. . . . Queer Marxists have a lot to learn from Liu about China’s central place in the spheres of geopolitics, economics, gender and sexuality. At the same time, queer Marxists will enthusiastically welcome his insistence that queer studies need to be far more materialist."

- Peter Drucker, Dialogues in Human Geography

"A groundbreaking work. . . . This book offers insightful interventions that carry substantial significance."

- Charlie Yi Zhang, Journal of Asian Studies

In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of dispossession, precarity, and the differential distribution of life chances. Despite this shift, queer theory finds itself constantly reabsorbed into the liberal project of diversity management. This theoretical and political weakness, Petrus Liu argues, stems from an incomplete understanding of capitalism’s contemporary transformations, of which China has been at the center. In The Specter of Materialism Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensus—global capitalism’s latest mutation—to develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality. Liu explores how relations of gender and sexuality get reconfigured to meet the needs of capital in new regimes of accumulation and dispossession, demonstrating that evolving US-Asian economic relations shape the emergence of new queer identities and academic theories. In so doing, he offers a new history of collective struggles that provides a transnational framework for understanding the nexus between queerness and material life.
Les mer
Petrus Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensus—global capitalism’s latest mutation—to develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality.
Les mer
Acknowledgments  ix Introduction: Periodizing the Post-1989 World Order  1 Part I: Theory 1. Alterity in Queer Theory and the Political Economy of the Beijing Consensus  21 2. The Specter of Materialism  52 Part II: History 3. The Subsumption of Literature: Lu Xun’s Queer Modernism in the Chinese Revolution  81 4. The Subsumption of the Cold War: The Material Unconscious of Queer Asia  104 5. The Subsumption of Sexuality: Translating Gender from the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women to the Beijing Consensus  135 Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Queer Marxism  161 Notes  165 Bibliography  195 Index
Les mer
“Petrus Liu’s scholarship on the geopolitical material conditions of queer theorizing is unparalleled. In this magisterial book, he dispenses with endless rumination on the liberal subject, instead training our attention on the relationship between a queer theory that functions as American area studies and the Cold War and its ongoing realities. He profoundly reorganizes what queer theory was, is, or could be, while illuminating queer horizons of struggle that are intimately, not peripherally or derivatively, interlaced with internationalist anticapitalist movements. A tour de force!”
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781478019428
Publisert
2023-01-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
386 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Liu Petrus

Om bidragsyterne

Petrus Liu is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Boston University and author of Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, also published by Duke University Press, and Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History.

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