Module: Theorizing through the Racialized Erotics of Imperial/Transnational Encounters

Theorizing through the Racialized Erotics of Imperial/Transnational Encounters

Read, Part 1: Sept 10th [Note: class begins at 6pm on the 10th --please read commentaries at 5pm]

Denise Ferreira da Silva Toward a Global Idea of Race (IUCAT access on project muse), (Minn07)
Pick one from recommended list

Commentary: Theorizing through the Racialized Erotics of Imperial/Transnational Encounters

Recommended:

Lemert Part one (esp. Max, Weber & Durkheim)

Ferreira da Silva "Speculation: Black Feminism, Refusal, Limits of Critique Denise Ferreira da Silva - Hacking the Subject: Black Feminism, Refusal, and the Limits of Critique

Ferreira da Souza, Denise Fractal Thinking — aCCeSsions.pdf

Enlightenment , Hegelian, Liberal Thought:

Enlightenment Reason as intrinsically gendered and racialized (STS classics):

Thomas Lacqueur “Orgasm…”

LJ Jordanova “Natural Facts”

Genevieve Lloyd Man of Reason

Michel Rolph Trouillot “Unthinkable History… Haitian Revolution“ in Silencing the Past

Joan Scott on Olympe de Gouges

Political-Economy as inherently.... (you get the idea)

Susan Buck Morrs’ “Hegel, Haiti, History”

Carol Pateman “Fraternal Contract”

Read, Part 2: Sept 17 [Note: if anyone has access to an electronic version of this book or has a hard copy to share, please communicate link to fellow students]

Ranjana Khanna Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism , especially “Preface and Intro: worlding psychoanalysis” “The ethical ambiguities of transnational feminism” and chapter on Fanon (on Canvas you'll find some chapters for your exploration if you are waiting to get access to the whole book)
pick one from recommended

Commentary:

Recommended:

In Lemert, Freud selections & Aime Cesaire "Between colonizer & colonized" & Lacan "Mirror Stage"

Khanna "Asylum Reconsidered, on the Right to Sleep Perchance to Dream" Asylum Reconsidered: On the Right to Sleep, Perchance to Dream

Article on Derrida

Questioning Occidentalism

Coronil Beyond Occidentalism.pdf

de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir "Woman as Other" excerpt in Lemert

Mary Caputi “Beauvoir and the case of Djamila Boupacha” in Lori Jo Marso & Patricia Moynagh Simone de Beauvoir’s Political Thinking (Illinois06)

Karen Shelby “Beauvoir and political responsability” in in Lori Jo Marso & Patricia Moynagh Simone de Beauvoir’s Political Thinking (Illinois06)

Foucault

Foucault "Biopolitics" excerpt in Lemert

Foucault "Introduction to a History of sexuality"

Ann Stoler Race and the Education of Desire (chvi, epilogue, ch I, whole book on Canvas)

Psychoanalysis

Fanon excerpts in Lemert

Stephen Frosh "Psychoanalysis, Colonialism, Racism"

Albert Memmi

ElliotIntroPsychoanalyticTheory.Poststructuralist and Femininist.pdf

Further recommendations in Political Economy:

Economics, per se (World Order, Development)

Lemert "Golden moment"

Nancy Folbre Greed, Lust, Desire (selections in Canvas gender and hist of econ thought)

Bill Maurer “Keynes, Grant, and the Queering of Bretton Woods”

Catherine V. Scott Gender and Development: Rethinking Modernization and Dependency Theory (Lynne Reinner95, see chapter on gewndering of modernization theory)