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,…mehr
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).
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.
Inhaltsangabe
Belonging Where? Introduction Part I: Belonging There: People Like Us 1. Makers and Takers: When More is Not Enough The Wealth of Nations Other People's Money The Virtues of Selfishness Cultures of Unreason 2. True Believers: Spiritual Life in a Secular Age Surprised by Sin True Believers? Selective Memories A History of Religious Outsiders 3. Ordinary People: The Normal and the Pathological Inventing Normal Laws of Averages Standard Deviations Common Denominators 4. Homeland Insecurities: Expecting the Worst A Dangerous World? Barbarians at the Gate Privacy Rights and Wrongs Something to Hide Organized Hate Part II: Belonging Somewhere: Blurred Boundaries 5. Reality is Broken: Neoliberalism and the Virtual Economy Neoliberalism Revisited Citizenship, Inc. The Politics of Culture Aesthetic Contradictions Virtual Rebels 6. Mistaken Identities: From Color Blindness to Gender Bending Welcome to "Post-Identity" America The Race for Race Pictures at an Exhibition Bending Sex and Gender Varieties of Gazing 7. No Body is Perfect: Disability in a Posthuman Age No Body is Perfect Constructions of Ableism The Dismodern Condition The Posthuman Body 8. On the Spectrum: America's Mental Health Disorder Stigma and Discrimination On Invisibility and Passing The Shame Game The Affective Turn Political Feelings Part III: Belonging Elsewhere: The Subject of Utopia 9. Gaming the System: Competition and its Discontents No Contest Doing God's Business Capitalism and Schizophrenia The Power of Giving Game Over 10. To Affinity and Beyond: The Cyborg and the Cosmopolitan A Cyborg Manifesto Third Person Plural Queering Heterosexuality Crip Analogies Realms of Mattering 11. Medicating the Problem: The New American Pharmakon The Narcotic Tower of Babel Models of Addiction Writing on Drugs Recovery Big Pharma 12. The One and the Many: The Ethics of Uncertainty Be Here Now Possession and Dispossession The One and the Many
Belonging Where? Introduction Part I: Belonging There: People Like Us 1. Makers and Takers: When More is Not Enough The Wealth of Nations Other People's Money The Virtues of Selfishness Cultures of Unreason 2. True Believers: Spiritual Life in a Secular Age Surprised by Sin True Believers? Selective Memories A History of Religious Outsiders 3. Ordinary People: The Normal and the Pathological Inventing Normal Laws of Averages Standard Deviations Common Denominators 4. Homeland Insecurities: Expecting the Worst A Dangerous World? Barbarians at the Gate Privacy Rights and Wrongs Something to Hide Organized Hate Part II: Belonging Somewhere: Blurred Boundaries 5. Reality is Broken: Neoliberalism and the Virtual Economy Neoliberalism Revisited Citizenship, Inc. The Politics of Culture Aesthetic Contradictions Virtual Rebels 6. Mistaken Identities: From Color Blindness to Gender Bending Welcome to "Post-Identity" America The Race for Race Pictures at an Exhibition Bending Sex and Gender Varieties of Gazing 7. No Body is Perfect: Disability in a Posthuman Age No Body is Perfect Constructions of Ableism The Dismodern Condition The Posthuman Body 8. On the Spectrum: America's Mental Health Disorder Stigma and Discrimination On Invisibility and Passing The Shame Game The Affective Turn Political Feelings Part III: Belonging Elsewhere: The Subject of Utopia 9. Gaming the System: Competition and its Discontents No Contest Doing God's Business Capitalism and Schizophrenia The Power of Giving Game Over 10. To Affinity and Beyond: The Cyborg and the Cosmopolitan A Cyborg Manifesto Third Person Plural Queering Heterosexuality Crip Analogies Realms of Mattering 11. Medicating the Problem: The New American Pharmakon The Narcotic Tower of Babel Models of Addiction Writing on Drugs Recovery Big Pharma 12. The One and the Many: The Ethics of Uncertainty Be Here Now Possession and Dispossession The One and the Many
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