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Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume assert the importance of queer kinship to queer and trans theory and to kinship theory. In a contemporary moment marked by the rising tides of neoliberalism, fascism, xenophobia, and homo- and cis-nationalism, they approach kinship as both a horizon and a source of violence and possibility. The contributors challenge dominant theories of kinship that ignore the devastating impacts of chattel slavery, settler colonialism, and racialized nationalism on the bonds of Black and Indigenous people and people of color. Among other topics, they examine the “blood tie” as the legal marker of kin relations, the everyday experiences and memories of trans mothers and daughters in Istanbul, the outsourcing of reproductive labor in postcolonial India, kinship as a model of governance beyond the liberal state, and the intergenerational effects of the adoption of Indigenous children as a technology of settler colonialism.
Queer Kinship pushes the metho
Trade Review"The book is primarily an important creative and analytic contribution to contemporary queer, trans, critical race and kinship theory. Nevertheless, it is also of value for those who explore narratives and form as well as belonging and heritage 'beyond' kinship relations. As Weston illuminates, when exploring kinship, it can, if we are open to it, take us on unexpected routes." -- Rebecka Rehnström * Anthropology Book Forum *
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Queer Kinship constitutes a remarkable achievement. Highly readable,theoretically rigorous and exemplary in its commitment to decentring colonial epistemologies, this collection stands to make a seminal contribution to queer and kinship studies. . . .
Queer Kinship elicits that most elusive of sensations in the reader: excitement." -- Ry Montgomery * LSE Review of Books *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction: Kincoherence/Kin-aesthetics/Kinematics / Tyler Bradway and Elizabeth Freeman 1
Queering Linages
1. Kinship beyond the Bloodline / Judith Butler 25
2. The Mixed-Race Child Is Queer Father to the Man / Brigitte Fielder 48
3. World Making: Family, Time, and Memory among Trans Mothers and Daughters in Istanbul / Dilara Çalişkan 71
Kinship, State, Empire
4. In Good Relations: Native Adoption, Kinstillations, and the Grounding of Memory / Joseph M. Pierce 95
5. Queering the Womb: Surrogacy and the Economics of Reproductive Feeling / Poulomi Saha 119
6. Beyond Family: Kinship’s Past, Queer World Making, and the Question of Governance / Mark Rifkin 138
7. Ecstatic Kinship and Trans Interiority in Jackie Kay’s
Trumpet / Aqdas Aftab 159
8. Marielle, Presente: The Present and Presence in Marielle Franco Protests / Juliana DeMartini Brito 180
Kinship in the Negative
9. Akinship / Christopher Chamberlin 203
10. Against Friendship / Leah Claire Allen and John S. Garrison 227
11. Kidless Lit: Childlessness and Minor Kinship Forms / Natasha Hurley 248
12. Till Death Do Us Kin: Sworn Kinship and Queer Martydom in Chinese Anti-imperial Struggles / Aobo Dong 269
Epilogue. How Did It Come to This? Talking Kinship with Kath Weston / Kath Weston, Elizabeth Freeman, and Tyler Bradway 291
References 303
Contributors 333
Index 339
