Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization

✍ Scribed by Morgensen, Scott L

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 309
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

We are all caught up in one another, Scott Lauria Morgensen asserts, we who live in settler societies, and our interrelationships inform all that these societies touch. Native people live in relation to all non-Natives amid the ongoing power relations of settler colonialism, despite never losing inherent claims to sovereignty as indigenous peoples. Explaining how relational distinctions of “Native” and “settler” define the status of being “queer,”Spaces between Usargues that modern queer subjects emerged among Natives and non-Natives by engaging the meaningful difference indigeneity makes within a settler society.

Morgensen’s analysis exposes white settler colonialism as a primary condition for the development of modern queer politics in the United States. Bringing together historical and ethnographic cases, he shows how U.S. queer projects became non-Native and normatively white by comparatively examining the historical activism and critical theory of Native queer and Two-Spirit people.

Presenting a “biopolitics of settler colonialism”—in which the imagined disappearance of indigeneity and sustained subjugation of all racialized peoples ensures a progressive future for white settlers—Spaces between Usnewly demonstrates the interdependence of nation, race, gender, and sexuality and offers opportunities for resistance in the United States.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 7
PREFACE......Page 9
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 15
INTRODUCTION......Page 17
Part I. Genealogies......Page 45
1. The Biopolitics of Settler Sexuality andQueer Modernities......Page 47
2. Conversations on Berdache: Anthropology,Counterculturism, Two-Spirit Organizing......Page 71
Part II. Movements......Page 105
3. Authentic Culture and Sexual Rights:Contesting Citizenship in the Settler State......Page 107
4. Ancient Roots through Settled Land: ImaginingIndigeneity and Place among Radical Faeries......Page 143
5. Global Desires and Transnational Solidarity:Negotiating Indigeneity among the Worlds ofQueer Politics......Page 177
6. “Together We Are Stronger”: DecolonizingGender and Sexuality in Transnational NativeAIDS Organizing......Page 211
EPILOGUE......Page 241
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 247
NOTES......Page 251
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 269
INDEX......Page 293

✦ Subjects

GLBT;Queer;Nonfiction;Philosophy;Theory;History;Feminism;Queer Studies;Gender and Sexuality;LGBT;Culture;Cultural Studies;Unfinished