A Queer Theory of the State
<p>Queer theory has often been hesitant to align itself with a politics of the state, approaching it with a negative or pragmatic framework. <em>A Queer Theory of the State</em> expands an earlier online essay from <em>The Point</em> by historian Samuel Huneke to offer a more optimistic perspective. Rather than eschew political engagement with democratic theorizing, Huneke asks how queer theory can wed its critically anti-normative impulses to the empirical need for a state. In answering this question, Huneke shows how the state is an integral component of a politics that seeks to subvert and undo the oppression of queer lives.</p>
Authors: Samuel Clowes Huneke
Series-editors: Aaron Bogart
Copy-editors: Louisa Elderton
Proof-readers: Jude Macannuco
Designers: Daniela Burger
ISBN: 979-8-9965164-6-9