Craig Willse
Biographic Data
| ID | 286960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig Willse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig |
| FAMILY NAME | Willse |
| SIGNATURE | WILLSE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Power beyond the state
This commentary takes up the question of social movements introduced in Kieran Allen's contribution, to argue for a more sustained reflection on the vitality and necessity of an autonomous grassroots left. Such movements are responding to both the economic conditions of neoliberalism and the racist, anti-immigrant discourse deployed as its justification. In these movements, we may find exactly the complex theorization of state power for which All…
The Value of Homelessness
"It is all too easy to assume that social service programs respond to homelessness, seeking to prevent and understand it. "The Value of Homelessness," however, argues that homelessness today is an effect of social services and sciences, which shape not only what counts as such but what will?or ultimately won t?be done about it.Through a history of U.S. housing insecurity from the 1930s to the present, Craig Willse traces the emergence and consoli…
Norms and Normalization
The following chapter charts critical encounters with norms and normalization in feminist analysis and praxis. We pay particular attention to how anticapitalist, critical race, and decolonial feminist methodologies interrogate norm production and maintenance across a range of social, cultural, and economic heteropatriarchal formations. Drawing from the work of Michel Foucault, we consider norms and normativity in terms of both disciplinary subjec…
Sex, Gender, and War in an Age of Multicultural Imperialism
This essay examines the case of Chelsea Manning in the larger context of both U.S. imperial war and the ways in which gender and sexuality are deployed in service of colonialism, racism, and militarism. Situating the Manning case alongside two contemporaneous events, the attempted prosecution of Julian Assange on rape charges and Hillary Clinton’s much-lauded “gay rights are human rights” speech, we argue that Manning’s trans identity has challen…
We areBorn in Flames
This essay introduces the dossier, situating Lizzie Borden's 1983 film Born in Flames in the contemporary political context. After offering a brief synopsis of the film, the essay argues that Born in Flames serves as both a document of feminist, anti-racist social movements and as inspiration for modeling future political work. The essay then briefly introduces the pieces that comprise the dossier
Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness
Magic Versus Neoliberalism
Magic Versus Neoliberalism:Riots Against Everywhere Craig Willse (bio) Philippe Pignarre and Isabelle Stengers's Capitalist Sorcery: Breaking the Spell, translated and edited by Andrew Goffey, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011 Franco "Bifo" Berardi's After the Future, edited by Gary Genosko and Nicholas Thoburn, translated by Arianna Bove, Melinda Cooper, Erik Empson, Enrico, Giuseppina Mecchia, and Tiziana Terranova, Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2011…
Beyond Biopolitics
Neo-liberal biopolitics and the invention of chronic homelessness
This article explores the emergence of neo-liberal housing policy and programmes in the United States, focusing in particular on the rise of social service initiatives targeting what is known as 'chronic homelessness'. These initiatives are notable for the ways in which they privilege long-vilified populations for immediate placement into housing with no social or medical services required. While this represents a significant break from social se…
Gendered Security/National Security
Drawing from theories of affect economies as well as discussion of biopolitical distributions of life and death, this essay explores the public mediation of gendered security and national security in terms of a political branding that circulates notions of safety, fear, and threat. The analysis works through three different media productions that intersect with contemporary concerns of governance and economy: an advertising spread for clothing, a…
Losses and Returns
Smoke and Mirrors
"Universal Data Elements," or the Biopolitical Life of Homeless Populations
This article explores the development of the Homeless Management Information Systems program by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Launched in 2001, the program mandates data collection by homeless social service agencies receiving federal funds. The program is examined in terms of broader responses to the "electronic turn" in social work. The generative capacities of database management systems are understood as producing surv…
Confronting the Limits of Gay Hate Crimes Activism
Questioning the emancipatory potential of hate crimes activism for sexual and gender non-normative people, this paper outlines the limits of criminal justice remedies to problems of gender, race, economic and sexual subordination. The first section considers some of the positive impacts of hate crimes activism, focusing on the benefits of legal "naming" for disenfranchised constituencies seeking political recognition. In the next section the auth…
Neo-liberal biopolitics and the invention of chronic homelessness
This article explores the emergence of neo-liberal housing policy and programmes in the United States, focusing in particular on the rise of social service initiatives targeting what is known as 'chronic homelessness'. These initiatives are notable for the ways in which they privilege long-vilified populations for immediate placement into housing with no social or medical services required. While this represents a significant break from social se…
Smoke and Mirrors
Sex, Gender, and War in an Age of Multicultural Imperialism
This essay examines the case of Chelsea Manning in the larger context of both U.S. imperial war and the ways in which gender and sexuality are deployed in service of colonialism, racism, and militarism. Situating the Manning case alongside two contemporaneous events, the attempted prosecution of Julian Assange on rape charges and Hillary Clinton’s much-lauded “gay rights are human rights” speech, we argue that Manning’s trans identity has challen…
Power beyond the state
This commentary takes up the question of social movements introduced in Kieran Allen's contribution, to argue for a more sustained reflection on the vitality and necessity of an autonomous grassroots left. Such movements are responding to both the economic conditions of neoliberalism and the racist, anti-immigrant discourse deployed as its justification. In these movements, we may find exactly the complex theorization of state power for which All…
We areBorn in Flames
This essay introduces the dossier, situating Lizzie Borden's 1983 film Born in Flames in the contemporary political context. After offering a brief synopsis of the film, the essay argues that Born in Flames serves as both a document of feminist, anti-racist social movements and as inspiration for modeling future political work. The essay then briefly introduces the pieces that comprise the dossier
Gendered Security/National Security
Drawing from theories of affect economies as well as discussion of biopolitical distributions of life and death, this essay explores the public mediation of gendered security and national security in terms of a political branding that circulates notions of safety, fear, and threat. The analysis works through three different media productions that intersect with contemporary concerns of governance and economy: an advertising spread for clothing, a…
"Universal Data Elements," or the Biopolitical Life of Homeless Populations
This article explores the development of the Homeless Management Information Systems program by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Launched in 2001, the program mandates data collection by homeless social service agencies receiving federal funds. The program is examined in terms of broader responses to the "electronic turn" in social work. The generative capacities of database management systems are understood as producing surv…
Confronting the Limits of Gay Hate Crimes Activism
Questioning the emancipatory potential of hate crimes activism for sexual and gender non-normative people, this paper outlines the limits of criminal justice remedies to problems of gender, race, economic and sexual subordination. The first section considers some of the positive impacts of hate crimes activism, focusing on the benefits of legal "naming" for disenfranchised constituencies seeking political recognition. In the next section the auth…
"Universal Data Elements," or the Biopolitical Life of Homeless Populations
This article explores the development of the Homeless Management Information Systems program by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Launched in 2001, the program mandates data collection by homeless social service agencies receiving federal funds. The program is examined in terms of broader responses to the "electronic turn" in social work. The generative capacities of database management systems are understood as producing surv…
Smoke and Mirrors
Losses and Returns
Neo-liberal biopolitics and the invention of chronic homelessness
This article explores the emergence of neo-liberal housing policy and programmes in the United States, focusing in particular on the rise of social service initiatives targeting what is known as 'chronic homelessness'. These initiatives are notable for the ways in which they privilege long-vilified populations for immediate placement into housing with no social or medical services required. While this represents a significant break from social se…
Gendered Security/National Security
Drawing from theories of affect economies as well as discussion of biopolitical distributions of life and death, this essay explores the public mediation of gendered security and national security in terms of a political branding that circulates notions of safety, fear, and threat. The analysis works through three different media productions that intersect with contemporary concerns of governance and economy: an advertising spread for clothing, a…
Beyond Biopolitics
Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness
Magic Versus Neoliberalism
Magic Versus Neoliberalism:Riots Against Everywhere Craig Willse (bio) Philippe Pignarre and Isabelle Stengers's Capitalist Sorcery: Breaking the Spell, translated and edited by Andrew Goffey, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011 Franco "Bifo" Berardi's After the Future, edited by Gary Genosko and Nicholas Thoburn, translated by Arianna Bove, Melinda Cooper, Erik Empson, Enrico, Giuseppina Mecchia, and Tiziana Terranova, Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2011…
We areBorn in Flames
This essay introduces the dossier, situating Lizzie Borden's 1983 film Born in Flames in the contemporary political context. After offering a brief synopsis of the film, the essay argues that Born in Flames serves as both a document of feminist, anti-racist social movements and as inspiration for modeling future political work. The essay then briefly introduces the pieces that comprise the dossier
Sex, Gender, and War in an Age of Multicultural Imperialism
This essay examines the case of Chelsea Manning in the larger context of both U.S. imperial war and the ways in which gender and sexuality are deployed in service of colonialism, racism, and militarism. Situating the Manning case alongside two contemporaneous events, the attempted prosecution of Julian Assange on rape charges and Hillary Clinton’s much-lauded “gay rights are human rights” speech, we argue that Manning’s trans identity has challen…
The Value of Homelessness
"It is all too easy to assume that social service programs respond to homelessness, seeking to prevent and understand it. "The Value of Homelessness," however, argues that homelessness today is an effect of social services and sciences, which shape not only what counts as such but what will?or ultimately won t?be done about it.Through a history of U.S. housing insecurity from the 1930s to the present, Craig Willse traces the emergence and consoli…
Norms and Normalization
The following chapter charts critical encounters with norms and normalization in feminist analysis and praxis. We pay particular attention to how anticapitalist, critical race, and decolonial feminist methodologies interrogate norm production and maintenance across a range of social, cultural, and economic heteropatriarchal formations. Drawing from the work of Michel Foucault, we consider norms and normativity in terms of both disciplinary subjec…
Power beyond the state
This commentary takes up the question of social movements introduced in Kieran Allen's contribution, to argue for a more sustained reflection on the vitality and necessity of an autonomous grassroots left. Such movements are responding to both the economic conditions of neoliberalism and the racist, anti-immigrant discourse deployed as its justification. In these movements, we may find exactly the complex theorization of state power for which All…
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