{"product_id":"queer-kinship-9781478018650","title":"Queer Kinship","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. \u003ci\u003eQueer Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e pushes the metho\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eQueer Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e 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. . . . \u003ci\u003eQueer Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e elicits that most elusive of sensations in the reader: excitement.\" -- Ry Montgomery * LSE Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Kincoherence\/Kin-aesthetics\/Kinematics \/ Tyler Bradway and Elizabeth Freeman  1\u003cbr\u003e Queering Linages\u003cbr\u003e 1. Kinship beyond the Bloodline \/ Judith Butler  25\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Mixed-Race Child Is Queer Father to the Man \/ Brigitte Fielder  48\u003cbr\u003e 3. World Making: Family, Time, and Memory among Trans Mothers and Daughters in Istanbul \/ Dilara Çalişkan  71\u003cbr\u003e Kinship, State, Empire\u003cbr\u003e 4. In Good Relations: Native Adoption, Kinstillations, and the Grounding of Memory \/ Joseph M. Pierce  95\u003cbr\u003e 5. Queering the Womb: Surrogacy and the Economics of Reproductive Feeling \/ Poulomi Saha  119\u003cbr\u003e 6. Beyond Family: Kinship’s Past, Queer World Making, and the Question of Governance \/ Mark Rifkin  138\u003cbr\u003e 7. Ecstatic Kinship and Trans Interiority in Jackie Kay’s \u003ci\u003eTrumpet\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Aqdas Aftab  159\u003cbr\u003e 8. Marielle, Presente: The Present and Presence in Marielle Franco Protests \/ Juliana DeMartini Brito  180\u003cbr\u003e Kinship in the Negative\u003cbr\u003e 9. Akinship \/ Christopher Chamberlin  203\u003cbr\u003e 10. Against Friendship \/ Leah Claire Allen and John S. Garrison  227\u003cbr\u003e 11. Kidless Lit: Childlessness and Minor Kinship Forms \/ Natasha Hurley  248\u003cbr\u003e 12. Till Death Do Us Kin: Sworn Kinship and Queer Martydom in Chinese Anti-imperial Struggles \/ Aobo Dong  269\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. How Did It Come to This? Talking Kinship with Kath Weston \/ Kath Weston, Elizabeth Freeman, and Tyler Bradway  291\u003cbr\u003e References  303\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  333\u003cbr\u003e Index  339","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409008992599,"sku":"9781478018650","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478018650.jpg?v=1730505073","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/queer-kinship-9781478018650","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}