Melissa Autumn White
Biographic Data
| ID | 642278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Autumn White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa Autumn |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hobart and William Smith Colleges |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Queer Migration and Critical Trafficking Studies
If there were no borders, there would be no migrants—only mobility.—Nicholas De GenovaIn the fall of 2017, a group of invited scholars working on critical trafficking and queer migration studies ca
Critical Mass, Precarious Value
Feminist Studies 44, no. 2. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 229 Stina Soderling, Carly Thomsen, and Melissa Autumn White Critical Mass, Precarious Value?: Reflections on the Gender, Women’s, and Feminist Studies PhD in Austere Times How . . . can discipline-based faculty train students in truly interdisciplinary research? And if they succeed, will there be a sufficient number of jobs for scholars trained outside existing disciplinary conventions…
Mobile Desires
This book combines mobilities research with feminist and queer studies offering new perspectives on mobility justice. It foregrounds academic, activist, and artistic work revealing state-sponsored str
A Queer Migrant Politics of the Here and Now
Book Review| January 01 2015 A Queer Migrant Politics of the Here and Now Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities. Chávez, Karma R.. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013. ix + 214 pp. Melissa Autumn White Melissa Autumn White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2015) 21 (1): 177–179. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2818624 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
Documenting the undocumented
This article explores the challenges of developing queer migrant justice strategies within nation-state contexts. With a focus on the Toronto-based ‘Let Alvaro Stay’ campaign (2011) and Julio Salgado’s collaborative ‘I Am Undocuqueer’ project, I critically examine queer anti-deportation activists’ reliance on methodological nationalisms and visibility politics in making claims hearable to the state. While such tactics risk reinforcing the nation-…
Archives of Intimacy and Trauma
Drawing on interviews with self-identified LGBTQ migrants, lawyers and immigration consultants conducted in Toronto in 2008-09 and 2013, this article explores the affective economies of queer migration governance in the transnational Canadian context. With a specific focus on the extensive paper files queer family class migrants and refugees must produce as part of the application process, the article theorizes these carefully curated documents a…
Ambivalent Homonationalisms
Prompted by a concern with the territorial and affective governance of transnational queer migration, and with a focus on state regulations of ‘same-sex’ family class migration in Canada, this essay explores the psychic and geopolitical economies of locating ‘home’ vis-à-vis (homo)nationalized belongings. Based on research conducted in Toronto, a city in which nearly half of the residents were born outside of the country, this critical exploratio…
What's the Matter
What's the Matter? Melissa Autumn White (bio) Diana Coole and Samantha Frost, New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics, Durham: Duke University Press, 2010 Catriona Sandilands and Bruce Erickson's Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010 Begin, though, not with a continent or country or a house, but with the geography closest in—the body. . . . Begin, we said, with the material, with matt…
Viral/Species/Crossing
We are all in this together, and we will all get through this together. Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of World Health Organization, June 11, 2009 Immunity and invulnerability are intersecting concepts, a matter of consequence in a nuclear culture unable to accommodate experience of death and finitude within available liberal discourse on collective and personal individual. Life is a window of vulnerability. It seems a mistake to close it. D…
Archives of Intimacy and Trauma
Drawing on interviews with self-identified LGBTQ migrants, lawyers and immigration consultants conducted in Toronto in 2008-09 and 2013, this article explores the affective economies of queer migration governance in the transnational Canadian context. With a specific focus on the extensive paper files queer family class migrants and refugees must produce as part of the application process, the article theorizes these carefully curated documents a…
Viral/Species/Crossing
We are all in this together, and we will all get through this together. Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of World Health Organization, June 11, 2009 Immunity and invulnerability are intersecting concepts, a matter of consequence in a nuclear culture unable to accommodate experience of death and finitude within available liberal discourse on collective and personal individual. Life is a window of vulnerability. It seems a mistake to close it. D…
Critical Mass, Precarious Value
Feminist Studies 44, no. 2. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 229 Stina Soderling, Carly Thomsen, and Melissa Autumn White Critical Mass, Precarious Value?: Reflections on the Gender, Women’s, and Feminist Studies PhD in Austere Times How . . . can discipline-based faculty train students in truly interdisciplinary research? And if they succeed, will there be a sufficient number of jobs for scholars trained outside existing disciplinary conventions…
What's the Matter
What's the Matter? Melissa Autumn White (bio) Diana Coole and Samantha Frost, New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics, Durham: Duke University Press, 2010 Catriona Sandilands and Bruce Erickson's Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010 Begin, though, not with a continent or country or a house, but with the geography closest in—the body. . . . Begin, we said, with the material, with matt…
Viral/Species/Crossing
We are all in this together, and we will all get through this together. Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of World Health Organization, June 11, 2009 Immunity and invulnerability are intersecting concepts, a matter of consequence in a nuclear culture unable to accommodate experience of death and finitude within available liberal discourse on collective and personal individual. Life is a window of vulnerability. It seems a mistake to close it. D…
Ambivalent Homonationalisms
Prompted by a concern with the territorial and affective governance of transnational queer migration, and with a focus on state regulations of ‘same-sex’ family class migration in Canada, this essay explores the psychic and geopolitical economies of locating ‘home’ vis-à-vis (homo)nationalized belongings. Based on research conducted in Toronto, a city in which nearly half of the residents were born outside of the country, this critical exploratio…
Documenting the undocumented
This article explores the challenges of developing queer migrant justice strategies within nation-state contexts. With a focus on the Toronto-based ‘Let Alvaro Stay’ campaign (2011) and Julio Salgado’s collaborative ‘I Am Undocuqueer’ project, I critically examine queer anti-deportation activists’ reliance on methodological nationalisms and visibility politics in making claims hearable to the state. While such tactics risk reinforcing the nation-…
Archives of Intimacy and Trauma
Drawing on interviews with self-identified LGBTQ migrants, lawyers and immigration consultants conducted in Toronto in 2008-09 and 2013, this article explores the affective economies of queer migration governance in the transnational Canadian context. With a specific focus on the extensive paper files queer family class migrants and refugees must produce as part of the application process, the article theorizes these carefully curated documents a…
Mobile Desires
This book combines mobilities research with feminist and queer studies offering new perspectives on mobility justice. It foregrounds academic, activist, and artistic work revealing state-sponsored str
A Queer Migrant Politics of the Here and Now
Book Review| January 01 2015 A Queer Migrant Politics of the Here and Now Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities. Chávez, Karma R.. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013. ix + 214 pp. Melissa Autumn White Melissa Autumn White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2015) 21 (1): 177–179. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2818624 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
Queer Migration and Critical Trafficking Studies
If there were no borders, there would be no migrants—only mobility.—Nicholas De GenovaIn the fall of 2017, a group of invited scholars working on critical trafficking and queer migration studies ca
Critical Mass, Precarious Value
Feminist Studies 44, no. 2. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 229 Stina Soderling, Carly Thomsen, and Melissa Autumn White Critical Mass, Precarious Value?: Reflections on the Gender, Women’s, and Feminist Studies PhD in Austere Times How . . . can discipline-based faculty train students in truly interdisciplinary research? And if they succeed, will there be a sufficient number of jobs for scholars trained outside existing disciplinary conventions…
Gender Studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · Queer (6 works) · Law (5 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (3 works) · Immigration (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)