Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as a more humane and humble way of approaching literature and culture. The reparative turn has traveled far beyond the academy, influencing how people imagine justice, solidarity, and social change. In The Ruse of Repair, Patricia Stuelke locates the reparative turn's hidden history in the failed struggle against US empire and neoliberal capitalism in the 1970s and 1980s. She shows how feminist, antiracist, and anti-imperialist liberation movements' visions of connection across difference, practices of self care, and other reparative modes of artistic and cultural production have unintentionally reinforced forms of neoliberal governance. At the same time, the US government and military, universities, and other institutions have appropriated and depoliticized these same techniques to sidestep addressing structural racism and imperialism in more substantive ways. In tracing the reparative turn's complicated and fraught genealogy, Stuelke questions reparative criticism's efficacy in ways that will prompt critics to reevaluate their own reading practices.
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- Contents
- Worlds of Kin: An Introduction / Thom Van Dooren and Matthew Chrulew
- One. The Sociality of Birds: Reflections on Ontological Edge Effects / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
- Two. Loving the Difficult: Scotch Broom / Catriona Sandilands
- Three. Awakening to the Call of Others: What I Learned from Existential Ecology / Isabelle Stengers
- Four. Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture’s Generations:Taking Care of Unexpected Country / Donna J. Haraway
- Five. The Disappearing Snails of Hawai‘i: Storytelling for a Time of Extinctions / Thom Van Dooren
- Six. Roadkill: Multispecies Mobility and Everyday Ecocide / Kate Rigby and Owain Jones
- Seven. After Nature: Totemism Revisited / Stephen Muecke
- Eight. Telling One’s Story in the Hearing of Buffalo:Liturgical Interventions from Beyond the Year Zero / James Hatley
- Nine. Ending with the Wind, Crying the Dawn / Bawaka Country, including Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Kate Lloyd, Sarah Wright, Laklak Burarrwanga, Ritjilili Ganambarr, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Banbapuy Ganambarr, and Djawundil Maymuru
- Ten. Animality and the Life of the Spirit / Colin Dayan
- Eleven. Life Is a Woven Basket of Relations / Kate Wright
- Afterword: Memories with Deborah Rose / Linda Payi Ford
- Contributors
- Index
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