Atmospheres of Violence by Eric A. Stanley

This insistence pushes back against the idea that these forms of harm are simply the phobic eruptions of individual people- an analysis I argue hides the structuring antagonism of the settler state. Roberto Sirvent: How can your book help BAR readers understand the current political and social climate?Įric Stanley: In Atmospheres of Violence, I argue that racialized anti-trans/queer violence is foundation to, and not an aberration of, western modernity.

Their book is Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable. Stanley is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Visit megaphone.In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book.

Stanley is an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.Rine Vieth is a researcher studying how the UK Immigration and Asylum tribunals consider claims of belief, how claims of religious belief are evidenced, and the role of faith communities in asylum-seeker support.Links referenced in the episode: In calling for trans/queer organizing and worldmaking beyond these forms, Stanley points to abolitionist ways of life that might offer livable futures.Dr. Drawing on an archive of suicide notes, AIDS activist histories, surveillance tapes, and prison interviews, they offer a theory of anti-trans/queer violence in which inclusion and recognition are forms of harm rather than remedies to it. Rather than suggesting that such violence is evidence of individual phobias, Stanley shows how it is a structuring antagonism in our social world. Stanley shows how this seeming contradiction reveals the central role of racialized and gendered violence in the United States.

In Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable (Duke UP, 2021), theorist and organizer Eric A. Content note: This episode contains discussions of suicide, as well as allusions to graphic anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-Black violenceAdvances in LGBTQ rights in the recent past-marriage equality, the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and the expansion of hate crimes legislation-have been accompanied by a rise in attacks against trans, queer and/or gender-nonconforming people of color.

Atmospheres of Violence by Eric A. Stanley