CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Shramko, Elizabeth Anne |
|---|---|
| Title | FAGS, DYKES, AND MISFITS: THE QUEERED WARRIOR CASTE MARKED FOR DEATH IN HOMONATIONAL TIMES |
| Summary | This thesis interrogates contradictions that we face within the current frame of war. I use both Achille Mbembe’s notion of necropolitics and Michael Foucault’s widely circulated term biopolitics as the backdrop to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I engage in a critique of queer theory as an institution and the current discourse of LGBTIQ rights and how they work in collusion with racist, xenophobic and sexist structures to produce two types of queer citizens: queer liberal subjects of life and queer populations marked for death. I argue that within this context soldiers serving in the U.S. military are necessarily queered as a population marked for death. I attempt to use queerness in a way that seriously engages with anti-racist critical theory and feminist critical theory; it was my intention that my usage of queerness (both my critique and my engagement in the theory) would posit race, gender, and nationality as central to sexuality and reproduction. |
| Supervisor | Anna Loutfi |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/shramko_elizabeth.pdf |
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