Abstract
Queer defies categorization and resists preset developmental trajectories. Practices of queering identities emerged near the end of the twentieth century as ways of resisting normalizing networks of power/knowledge. But how effective are queer practices at resisting networks of power/knowledge (including disciplines) that are not primarily normalizing in their functioning? This essay raises that question in light of expanding neoliberal discourses and institutions which, in some quarters at least, themselves undermine normalized identities in favor of a proliferation of personal styles susceptible to governance through market forces. Special attention is given to Security, Territory, Population and The Birth of Biopolitics in this analysis.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2012, Queensland University of Technology. This article first appeared in Foucault Studies 14 (2012), 61-78.
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Recommended Citation
McWhorter, Ladelle. "Queer Economies." Foucault Studies 14 (2012): 61-78.