Black Queer Ethics, Family, and Philosophical Imagination, 2016
Black queer people acknowledge and respond to the social constructions that shape black queer sub... more Black queer people acknowledge and respond to the social constructions that shape black queer subjectivity and familial relations by disrupting oppressive norms and processes of normalization. Disrupting norms is an important way that black queers exercise moral agency in relation to family, and black queers’ use of disruption both confronts and destabilizes norms of relationality built on unjust power dynamics and oppressive notions of race, gender, and sexuality. Young explores the economies of relation that become stabilized through the norms of capitalism and heteropatriarchy and delineates the process of disrupting norms, explaining how it requires an ongoing commitment to recognizing technologies of normalization.
Normative identities mediate and impute categorical difference through social control and regulat... more Normative identities mediate and impute categorical difference through social control and regulation; they act simultaneously as products and producers of norms. Young explores the processes of normalization that establish norms of race, gender, and sexuality and subsequently shape elements of black queer subjectivity and govern ideas of family. Engaging Foucault’s description of disciplinary power, which is found in the systematic management of those identities and norms that circumscribe one another, Young describes how such power manages both the population from which that discipline is derived and the bodies upon which its regulation settles. In relation to norms, disciplinary power operates by generating and nurturing technologies constrict black queer subjectivity and family relations.
Black Queer Ethics, Family, and Philosophical Imagination, 2016
Creative efforts toward the good life call for a vision that destabilizes a rational notion of pr... more Creative efforts toward the good life call for a vision that destabilizes a rational notion of progressive norms and, instead, invites critical and creative projections of new life possibilities. This work is imagination—a process of emotional, rational, and active conscientizing. Drawing on Christian ethicist’s notions of moral imagination, Young introduces the concept of subversive–generative imagination, which requires thinking and acting beyond identity politics and toward ethical frameworks like embodiment, mutuality, generosity, queer futurity, and justice–love. Young shows how imagination ignites the development of family-making and self-becoming that builds on interactions between individual and collective potentiality. In “Subversive-Generative Moral Imagination,” Young ultimately claims that as an equally creative and subversive force, imagination makes it possible for black queers to vision new, queer possibilities for human relationships.
Black Queer Ethics, Family, and Philosophical Imagination, 2016
Black queer people acknowledge and respond to the social constructions that shape black queer sub... more Black queer people acknowledge and respond to the social constructions that shape black queer subjectivity and familial relations by disrupting oppressive norms and processes of normalization. Disrupting norms is an important way that black queers exercise moral agency in relation to family, and black queers’ use of disruption both confronts and destabilizes norms of relationality built on unjust power dynamics and oppressive notions of race, gender, and sexuality. Young explores the economies of relation that become stabilized through the norms of capitalism and heteropatriarchy and delineates the process of disrupting norms, explaining how it requires an ongoing commitment to recognizing technologies of normalization.
Normative identities mediate and impute categorical difference through social control and regulat... more Normative identities mediate and impute categorical difference through social control and regulation; they act simultaneously as products and producers of norms. Young explores the processes of normalization that establish norms of race, gender, and sexuality and subsequently shape elements of black queer subjectivity and govern ideas of family. Engaging Foucault’s description of disciplinary power, which is found in the systematic management of those identities and norms that circumscribe one another, Young describes how such power manages both the population from which that discipline is derived and the bodies upon which its regulation settles. In relation to norms, disciplinary power operates by generating and nurturing technologies constrict black queer subjectivity and family relations.
Black Queer Ethics, Family, and Philosophical Imagination, 2016
Creative efforts toward the good life call for a vision that destabilizes a rational notion of pr... more Creative efforts toward the good life call for a vision that destabilizes a rational notion of progressive norms and, instead, invites critical and creative projections of new life possibilities. This work is imagination—a process of emotional, rational, and active conscientizing. Drawing on Christian ethicist’s notions of moral imagination, Young introduces the concept of subversive–generative imagination, which requires thinking and acting beyond identity politics and toward ethical frameworks like embodiment, mutuality, generosity, queer futurity, and justice–love. Young shows how imagination ignites the development of family-making and self-becoming that builds on interactions between individual and collective potentiality. In “Subversive-Generative Moral Imagination,” Young ultimately claims that as an equally creative and subversive force, imagination makes it possible for black queers to vision new, queer possibilities for human relationships.
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