Peer-Reviewed Papers by Blu Buchanan
PUBLIC: A Journal of Imagining America, 2018
This dialogue uses Fred Moten and Stefano Harney's writings on the "undercommons" as a launching ... more This dialogue uses Fred Moten and Stefano Harney's writings on the "undercommons" as a launching point to discuss our experiences with navigating the neoliberal university. From within our respective institutional contexts, we explore what it means to be a "dodgy scholar," one who maintains just enough credibility within the system to subvert its purposes and boundaries. We raise questions, for ourselves and for our readers, seeking to engage with public scholarship in an era of precarity. We ask: How are we claiming the politics and experiences of hybrid spaces for ourselves? How does care-based organizing challenge the neoliberal university? How do we draw connections between our academic life experiences and the academy as a whole? And how might we reclaim and resist the cooptation of language and strategies built out of liberation movements by counter-publics? We conclude by asking how we, as a collective, may inform this engagement further.
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
Scholars often describe the heteropatriarchal relationships that prop up fascist political ideolo... more Scholars often describe the heteropatriarchal relationships that prop up fascist political ideologies and practices. This emphasis is rooted in counter-reading other historical texts, which often conflate homosexuality and fascism as (1) one and the same or (2) linearly related along a spectrum, between the “moral degeneracy” of homosexuality and the atrocities produced by fascist regimes. These traditional models fail to describe the National Socialist League (NSL), a US neo-Nazi organization operating from 1974 until the late 1980s, which was explicitly structured to incorporate and include gay men into the white supremacist and fascist far right. By exploring how the NSL situated itself within the broader US fascist movement, this article examines how public-private distinction, whiteness, and hegemonic scripts of masculinity shaped NSL recruitment. These mechanisms provide discursive space for white gay men to position themselves as responsible citizens and important actors with...
Book Chapters by Blu Buchanan
Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis, Aug 18, 2021
Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era, 2023
Reviews by Blu Buchanan
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews
Papers by Blu Buchanan
Journal of right-wing studies, Jul 2, 2024
Panel discussion held at Southern Sociological Society (SSS) Annual Meeting. Co-sponsored by Soci... more Panel discussion held at Southern Sociological Society (SSS) Annual Meeting. Co-sponsored by Sociologists for Women in Society – South and SSS Committee on Gender and Sexuality. Progra
Critical Times
As scholar-activists, the authors explore efforts of police disarmament within the context of an ... more As scholar-activists, the authors explore efforts of police disarmament within the context of an emerging social movement sweeping the University of California system. The Disarm UC coalition challenges the myth of policing as necessary for the production of a “safe” society, especially in an era in which fear-mongering has helped to naturalize far-right and authoritarian systems of control. Instead, this article asks how policing is always already a violent system within the American academy and how these historical precursors normalize the current militarization and mobilization of lethal force within universities. Such normalized violence reproduces historical inequities within academia and has material consequences for students and workers. Finally, the authors explore how social movements like Disarm UC disrupt police violence within the university, producing new social and material conditions for change.
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Peer-Reviewed Papers by Blu Buchanan
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