The biopolitics of mixing
Subtitle: Thai multiracialities and haunted ascendancies
By: by Jin Haritaworn
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780754676805; 9781409425021
Subjects: Racially mixed people; Ethnic identity
Description: Debates over who belongs in Europe and who doesn't increasingly speak the language of mixing, but how are the figures commonly described as 'mixed' actually embodied? "The Biopolitics of Mixing" invites us to reckon with the spectres of pathologization past and present, placing the celebration of mixing beside moral panics over terrorism and trafficking and a post-race multiculturalism that elevates some as privileged members of the neoliberal community, whilst ghosting others from it. Drawing on rich qualitative interviews conducted in Britain and Germany, media and policy debates, popular culture, race-based research and queer-of-colour theories, this book imagines into being communities in which people and places normally kept separate can coexist in the same reality. As such, it will appeal to scholars across a range of sociological and cultural studies, including critical race, ethnic and migration studies, transnational gender and queer studies, German and European studies, Thai and Southeast Asian studies, and studies of affect, performativity, biopolitics and necropolitics. It should be read by all those interested in thinking critically on the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality and disability.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: haunted origins; title: What are you?; title: From monster to fashion model: regenerating multiracialized bodies; title: Is it better to be mixed race?; title: Hybrid nations, mixed feelings: from marginal man to Obama; title: Exceptional cities, exceptional citizens: metronormativity and mimeticism; title: Reckoning with prostitutes: performing Thai femininity; title: Conclusion: where do we want to go?