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Americans think of their country as a welcoming place where everyone has equal opportunity. Yet historical baggage and anxious times can restrain these possibilities. Newcomers often find that civic belonging comes with strings attached--riddled with limitations or legally punitive rites of passage. For those already here, new challenges to civic belonging emerge on the basis of belief, behavior, or heritage. This book uses the term "elsewhere" in describing conditions that exile so many citizens to "some other place" through prejudice, competition, or discordant belief. Yet, in another way, "elsewhere" evokes an undefined "not yet" ripe with potential. In the face of America's daunting challenges, can "elsewhere" point to optimism, hope, and common purpose?
Through 12 detailed chapters, the book applies critical theory in the humanities and social sciences to examine recurring crises of social inclusion in the U.S. After two centuries of incremental "progress" in securing human dignity, today the U.S. finds itself torn by new conflicts over reproductive rights, immigration, health care, religious extremism, sexual orientation, mental illness, and fear of terrorists. Is there a way of explaining this recurring tendency of Americans to turn against each other? Elsewhere in America engages these questions, charting the ever-changing faces of difference (manifest in contested landscapes of sex and race to such areas as disability and mental health), their spectral and intersectional character (recent discourses on performativity, normativity, and queer theory), and the grounds on which categories are manifest in ideation and movement politics (metapolitics, cosmopolitanism, dismodernism).
Autorentext
David Trend is Chair of the Department of Art at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a PhD in Curriculum Theory and an MFA in Visual Studies. His books include Worlding: Identity, Media, and Imagination in a Digital Age (2013), The End of Reading (2010), A Culture Divided (2009), Everyday Culture (2008), and The Myth of Media Violence (2007), among others. Honored as a Getty Scholar, Trend is the author of over 200 essays and a former editor of the journals Afterimage and Socialist Review. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Inhalt
Belonging Where? Introduction
Part I: Belonging There: People Like Us
The Wealth of Nations **Other People's Money
The Virtues of Selfishness
Cultures of Unreason
**Surprised by Sin
True Believers?
Selective Memories
A History of Religious Outsiders
**Inventing Normal
Laws of Averages
Standard Deviations
Common Denominators
Barbarians at the Gate
Privacy Rights and Wrongs
Something to Hide
Organized Hate
Part II: Belonging Somewhere: Blurred Boundaries
**Neoliberalism Revisited
Citizenship, Inc.
The Politics of Culture
Aesthetic Contradictions
Virtual Rebels
The Race for Race
Pictures at an Exhibition
Bending Sex and Gender
Varieties of Gazing
Constructions of Ableism
The Dismodern Condition
The Posthuman Body
**Stigma and Discrimination
On Invisibility and Passing
The Shame Game
The Affective Turn
Political Feelings
Part III: Belonging Elsewhere: The Subject of Utopia
**No Contest
Doing God's Business
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
The Power of Giving
Game Over
**A Cyborg Manifesto
Third Person Plural
Queering Heterosexuality
Crip Analogies
Realms of Mattering
**The Narcotic Tower of Babel
Models of Addiction
Writing on Drugs
Recovery
Big Pharma
**Be Here Now
Possession and Dispossession
The One and the Many