Queer Necropolitics Selected Bibliography

Theoretical Antecedents: Biopolitics

Agamben, Giorgio. 1995. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Foucault, Michel. 1990[1978]. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction. New York, NY: Vintage.

Elaborating Necropolitics

Mbembe, Achille. 2003. Necropolitics. Translated by Libby Meintjes. Public Culture 15(1): 11-40.

Extending Necropolitics

Agathangelou, Anna M. 2013. Neoliberal Geopolitical Order and Value: Queerness as a Speculative Economy and Anti-Blackness as Terror. International Feminist Journal of Politics 15(4): 453-476.

Bui, Long T. 2016. A Better Life? Asian Ameicans and the Necropolitics of Higher Education. In Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader. Edited by Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Hall, Rachel. 2015. Terror and the Female Grotesque: Introducing Full-Body Scanners to U.S. Airports. In Feminist Surveillance Studies. Edited by Rachel Dubrofsky and Shoshana Amielle Magnet. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Hanhardt, Christina B. 2013. Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Haritaworn, Jim, Adi Kuntsman, & Silvia Posocco, editors. 2014. Queer Necropolitics. New York, NY: Routledge.

Haritaworn, Jin and C. Riley Snorton. 2013. Transsexual Necropolitics. In The Transgender Studies Reader 2. Edited by Susan Stryker and Aren Aizura. New York, NY: Routledge.

McGlotten, Shaka. 2014. Zombie Porn: Necropolitics, Sex, and Queer Socialities. Porn Studies 1(4): 360-377.

Puar, Jasbir. 2007. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Reddy, Chandan. 2011. Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Shakhsari, Simi. 2014. The Queer Time of Death: Temporality, Geopolitics, and Refugee Rights. Sexualities 17(8): 998-1015.

Swarr, Amanda Lock. 2012. Sex in Transition: Remaking Gender & Race in South Africa. New York, NY: SUNY Press.