Feminist asylums and acts of dreaming
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5124385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heather M Turcotte (University of Connecticut, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-160 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1464700114528769 |
| OpenAlex | W2330150577 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
This article explores how US legal expansions narrow justice possibilities. Drawing from Joan Scott's work on experience, echo and reverberation, the article puts forth a method for reading the convergence of historical absences within legal subjectivity. In particular, it traces the denial of one Nigerian woman's US political asylum claim within the context of US handlings of Nigerian human rights cases focused on petroleum violence alongside the expansion of political asylum to include gender and sexual violence. The article accounts for the production of gender within a larger context of colonial state violence and questions how gender becomes a viable legal category through a variety of violent histories that implicate the US. By reframing questions of feminist justice within the site of law, the article argues for a deeper engagement with discontinuous narratives, which read against our common sense understandings, as a first step in divesting in US legal privilege
Cognitive reframing · Criminology · Denial · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Feminism · Feminist Legal Theory · Human rights · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sexual violence · Sociology · Subjectivity · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Against Empire
Whiteness as Property
Critical Race Theory
Resource Wars
Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism
Ghostly Matters
Constructing a Global Law-Violence against Women and the Human Rights System
What Comes Naturally
Freedom with Violence
Transnational America
Nego‐Feminism
Law and Disorder in the Postcolony
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Contextualizing Petro-Sexual Politics
Conquest
Rape, Racism and the Capitalist Setting
On the Postcolony
Framing Cultural Difference
Feminist Reverberations
The Wrong Question
Sexuality, Migration, and the Shifting Line Between Legal and Illegal Status
Accumulation, Dispossession, and Debt
American Studies without America
Monster, Terrorist, Fag
Advocacy after Bhopal
Citizen and Subject
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Why Women are at War with Chevron
Fantasy Echo
The Evidence of Experience
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |