Kelly E Happe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1448560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelly E Happe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelly E |
| FAMILY NAME | Happe |
| SIGNATURE | HAPPE K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rethinking Utopia as Form
This essay theorizes utopianism as distinct from radical or revolutionary action and so capable of instantiating a desire for a world so different it cannot be represented. Asking whether "failure" is in fact a productive condition of possibility for utopianism, the essay considers a number of theoretical interventions including those of Fredric Jameson and Kathi Weeks. Drawing out the benefits and limits of these perspectives, the essay articula…
Violence, Plasticity, and Rhetoric
Catherine Malabou builds on neuroscience to offer a theory of the plasticity of the brain, arguing that trauma holds transformative potential. This article argues, however, that her theory prioritizes resilience in the face of episodic moments of violence and trauma, which undertheorizes the trauma of chronic conditions experienced by racialized, particularly Black, subjects. Instead, this article turns to Christina Sharpe’s theory of wake work a…
The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery
In The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery, Alys Eve Weinbaum integrates literary theory and criticism, Black feminist thought, Marxist political economy, and Walter Benjamin's historical materialism to compellingly argue for a reading practice of contemporary racialized biocapitalism. Weinbaum shows why, in the context of neoliberalism, we need to read for innovative deployments of history as grounds for resistance, and perhaps more importantly, f…
Utopia and Crisis
This essay thinks through the relationship between dystopia and utopia, in particular, how the constellation of past and present in radical demands amid state and economic violence (what Weinbaum calls black feminism's philosophy of history) is that which creates “crisis”—an estrangement from the present, a reclaiming of past insurgency, and the possibilities for other worlds
Biocitizenship
Genetic geographies
Heredity
This entry provides a history of heredity as both a biological and a social concept. In particular, it traces its influence on social theory during three major historical moments in the biological sciences: eugenics and the social theory of the genetically unfit; genomics and the theory of biosociality; and epigenetics and the collapse of the biology–culture binary.
Parrhēsia , Biopolitics, and Occupy
This article considers Michel Foucault's theories of ethical speech and militant life in the context of Occupy Wall Street's encampments in Zuccotti Park. Focusing on the encampments and the production and circulation of resources to meet bodily needs, the article concludes that occupation was a self-inflicted form of precarity as well as an extension of an already existing vulnerability, a living that is at once a form of social death. I read th…
The Ruptures of American Capital
Kelly E. HappeUniversity of Georgia© 2015, Kelly E. Happe
The Body of Race
Employing the theoretical perspective known as performativity, this essay rethinks the notion of racial discourse. The essay takes biomedicine as an important site wherein racial ontologies are performatively enacted and argues that we need to historicize race and rhetoric in order to understand how racial ideology adapts to different material conditions. The particular case of breast cancer genomics is examined to explore the ways in which racia…
Heredity, gender and the discourse of ovarian cancer
Healthy women have elected to undergo preventive, or “prophylactic” surgery in order to lower perceived risk for ovarian cancer for some time. The development and commercialization of cancer susceptibility tests has altered the justification for prophylactic surgery. As a result, the rationale for undergoing oophorectomies (the removal of the ovaries) has taken on greater significance in biomedical discourse as a reasonable course of action for w…
The rhetoric of race in breast cancer research
Since 1998 the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer has documented the undue burden of breast cancer for women of colour. Geneticists claim that social variables cannot fully explain breast cancer statistics, pointing to evidence that, when black women receive the same health care as Whites, they are still more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive, deadly forms of the disease. Moreover, they claim, racism and traditional risk fac…
The Body of Race
Employing the theoretical perspective known as performativity, this essay rethinks the notion of racial discourse. The essay takes biomedicine as an important site wherein racial ontologies are performatively enacted and argues that we need to historicize race and rhetoric in order to understand how racial ideology adapts to different material conditions. The particular case of breast cancer genomics is examined to explore the ways in which racia…
Genetic geographies
Heredity, gender and the discourse of ovarian cancer
Healthy women have elected to undergo preventive, or “prophylactic” surgery in order to lower perceived risk for ovarian cancer for some time. The development and commercialization of cancer susceptibility tests has altered the justification for prophylactic surgery. As a result, the rationale for undergoing oophorectomies (the removal of the ovaries) has taken on greater significance in biomedical discourse as a reasonable course of action for w…
The rhetoric of race in breast cancer research
Since 1998 the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer has documented the undue burden of breast cancer for women of colour. Geneticists claim that social variables cannot fully explain breast cancer statistics, pointing to evidence that, when black women receive the same health care as Whites, they are still more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive, deadly forms of the disease. Moreover, they claim, racism and traditional risk fac…
The Body of Race
Employing the theoretical perspective known as performativity, this essay rethinks the notion of racial discourse. The essay takes biomedicine as an important site wherein racial ontologies are performatively enacted and argues that we need to historicize race and rhetoric in order to understand how racial ideology adapts to different material conditions. The particular case of breast cancer genomics is examined to explore the ways in which racia…
Parrhēsia , Biopolitics, and Occupy
This article considers Michel Foucault's theories of ethical speech and militant life in the context of Occupy Wall Street's encampments in Zuccotti Park. Focusing on the encampments and the production and circulation of resources to meet bodily needs, the article concludes that occupation was a self-inflicted form of precarity as well as an extension of an already existing vulnerability, a living that is at once a form of social death. I read th…
The Ruptures of American Capital
Kelly E. HappeUniversity of Georgia© 2015, Kelly E. Happe
Heredity
This entry provides a history of heredity as both a biological and a social concept. In particular, it traces its influence on social theory during three major historical moments in the biological sciences: eugenics and the social theory of the genetically unfit; genomics and the theory of biosociality; and epigenetics and the collapse of the biology–culture binary.
Biocitizenship
Genetic geographies
Utopia and Crisis
This essay thinks through the relationship between dystopia and utopia, in particular, how the constellation of past and present in radical demands amid state and economic violence (what Weinbaum calls black feminism's philosophy of history) is that which creates “crisis”—an estrangement from the present, a reclaiming of past insurgency, and the possibilities for other worlds
The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery
In The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery, Alys Eve Weinbaum integrates literary theory and criticism, Black feminist thought, Marxist political economy, and Walter Benjamin's historical materialism to compellingly argue for a reading practice of contemporary racialized biocapitalism. Weinbaum shows why, in the context of neoliberalism, we need to read for innovative deployments of history as grounds for resistance, and perhaps more importantly, f…
Violence, Plasticity, and Rhetoric
Catherine Malabou builds on neuroscience to offer a theory of the plasticity of the brain, arguing that trauma holds transformative potential. This article argues, however, that her theory prioritizes resilience in the face of episodic moments of violence and trauma, which undertheorizes the trauma of chronic conditions experienced by racialized, particularly Black, subjects. Instead, this article turns to Christina Sharpe’s theory of wake work a…
Rethinking Utopia as Form
This essay theorizes utopianism as distinct from radical or revolutionary action and so capable of instantiating a desire for a world so different it cannot be represented. Asking whether "failure" is in fact a productive condition of possibility for utopianism, the essay considers a number of theoretical interventions including those of Fredric Jameson and Kathi Weeks. Drawing out the benefits and limits of these perspectives, the essay articula…
Sociology (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (4 works) · Art (3 works)