Elisabeth Anker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1043752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisabeth Anker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Anker |
| SIGNATURE | ANKER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7284-223X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Theory & Event
Visionary political theory
Ugly Freedoms
In Ugly Freedoms Elisabeth R. Anker reckons with the complex legacy of freedom offered by liberal American democracy, outlining how the emphasis of individual liberty has always been entangled with white supremacy, settler colonialism, climate destruction, economic exploitation, and patriarchy. These “ugly freedoms” legitimate the right to exploit and subjugate others. At the same time, Anker locates an unexpected second type of ugly freedom in p…
Response to Jason Frank’s Review of Ugly Freedoms
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Plan B
States of Freedom
"White and Deadly"
I Feel Your Pain
Hillary Clinton's memoir of the 2016 election and her life in politics, What Happened, is an affective rollercoaster. Wrath, frustration, regret, and sorrow, among other intensified emotions, saturate the book's pages. This range of affect is surprising for a political autobiography. Books in this genre typically present their subject-selves as stalwart and emotionally controlled actors whose range of feeling is limited to the proper amount of ri…
The Political Theory of Michael Rogin
Red Alert
Freedom and the Human in “Evolutionary” Political Theory
“Evolutionary” political theory is a dynamic process of scholarship that collides disparate ideas into each other to form new, symbiogenetic concepts that were previously unthinkable. As evolutionary political theory, “Species Evolution and Cultural Freedom” enacts the dynamics of species evolution the essay examines, colliding theories of freedom into theories of evolution to offer new ways of imagining the self. Yet I argue that the essay’s evo…
The Liberalism of Horror
Hobbes s state of nature as a scene of horror that legitimates liberal politics, and how that scene shifts in contemporary politics as the sovereign state power initially intended to protect against horror becomes the very figure of horror in neoliberalism
Heroic Identifications
“Heroic Identifications” examines the American public’s willingness to affirm expansions of state power they supposedly protest. It argues that in the post-9/11 era, Americans who legitimated violent and impinging state actions may have done so as an expression of their own individual power. Legitimation stemmed from individual identifications with state power, as if state action was an extension of individual action and an expression of individu…
Feminist Theory and the Failures of Post-9/11 Freedom
After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, freedom was the dominant term used to describe the United States in national political discourse. It was articulated as sovereign power, unencumbered agency, and military triumph. “Freedom” eventually animated global violence, becoming a justification for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as for substantial increases in state surveillance. A significant body of feminist scholarship has in…
Left melodrama
Terror Firma
Terror Firma:Political Topographies of the War on Terror Elisabeth Anker (bio) Robin Truth Goodman. Policing Narratives and the State of Terror. SUNY Press: 2010. US $23.95 (paper), US $70.00 (cloth). 211 pp. ISBN-10: 1438429037 Jasbir Puar. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Duke University Press: 2008. US $20.21 (paper), US $71.97 (cloth). 348 pp. ISBN-10: 082234114X Almost ten years after the 9/11 events and the onset of th…
Out of the Blue
Book Review| June 01 2011 Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel; American Multiculturalism after 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel. By Kristiaan Versluys. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2009. x, 226 pp. Cloth, $79.50; paper, $24.50.American Multiculturalism after 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives. Ed. Derek Rubin and Jaap Verheul. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Univ. Press. 2010. 244 pp. $39.95. Elisabeth An…
Villains, Victims and Heroes
Journal Article Villains, Victims and Heroes: Melodrama, Media, and September 11 Get access Elisabeth Anker Elisabeth Anker 1Elisabeth Anker (MA, University of California, Berkeley) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science with a Designated Emphasis in Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 55, Issue 1, March …
Villains, Victims and Heroes
Journal Article Villains, Victims and Heroes: Melodrama, Media, and September 11 Get access Elisabeth Anker Elisabeth Anker 1Elisabeth Anker (MA, University of California, Berkeley) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science with a Designated Emphasis in Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 55, Issue 1, March …
Terror Firma
Terror Firma:Political Topographies of the War on Terror Elisabeth Anker (bio) Robin Truth Goodman. Policing Narratives and the State of Terror. SUNY Press: 2010. US $23.95 (paper), US $70.00 (cloth). 211 pp. ISBN-10: 1438429037 Jasbir Puar. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Duke University Press: 2008. US $20.21 (paper), US $71.97 (cloth). 348 pp. ISBN-10: 082234114X Almost ten years after the 9/11 events and the onset of th…
Out of the Blue
Book Review| June 01 2011 Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel; American Multiculturalism after 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel. By Kristiaan Versluys. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2009. x, 226 pp. Cloth, $79.50; paper, $24.50.American Multiculturalism after 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives. Ed. Derek Rubin and Jaap Verheul. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Univ. Press. 2010. 244 pp. $39.95. Elisabeth An…
Heroic Identifications
“Heroic Identifications” examines the American public’s willingness to affirm expansions of state power they supposedly protest. It argues that in the post-9/11 era, Americans who legitimated violent and impinging state actions may have done so as an expression of their own individual power. Legitimation stemmed from individual identifications with state power, as if state action was an extension of individual action and an expression of individu…
Feminist Theory and the Failures of Post-9/11 Freedom
After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, freedom was the dominant term used to describe the United States in national political discourse. It was articulated as sovereign power, unencumbered agency, and military triumph. “Freedom” eventually animated global violence, becoming a justification for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as for substantial increases in state surveillance. A significant body of feminist scholarship has in…
Left melodrama
Freedom and the Human in “Evolutionary” Political Theory
“Evolutionary” political theory is a dynamic process of scholarship that collides disparate ideas into each other to form new, symbiogenetic concepts that were previously unthinkable. As evolutionary political theory, “Species Evolution and Cultural Freedom” enacts the dynamics of species evolution the essay examines, colliding theories of freedom into theories of evolution to offer new ways of imagining the self. Yet I argue that the essay’s evo…
The Liberalism of Horror
Hobbes s state of nature as a scene of horror that legitimates liberal politics, and how that scene shifts in contemporary politics as the sovereign state power initially intended to protect against horror becomes the very figure of horror in neoliberalism
Red Alert
The Political Theory of Michael Rogin
I Feel Your Pain
Hillary Clinton's memoir of the 2016 election and her life in politics, What Happened, is an affective rollercoaster. Wrath, frustration, regret, and sorrow, among other intensified emotions, saturate the book's pages. This range of affect is surprising for a political autobiography. Books in this genre typically present their subject-selves as stalwart and emotionally controlled actors whose range of feeling is limited to the proper amount of ri…
"White and Deadly"
Ugly Freedoms
In Ugly Freedoms Elisabeth R. Anker reckons with the complex legacy of freedom offered by liberal American democracy, outlining how the emphasis of individual liberty has always been entangled with white supremacy, settler colonialism, climate destruction, economic exploitation, and patriarchy. These “ugly freedoms” legitimate the right to exploit and subjugate others. At the same time, Anker locates an unexpected second type of ugly freedom in p…
Response to Jason Frank’s Review of Ugly Freedoms
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Plan B
States of Freedom
Visionary political theory
Theory & Event
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