Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony by Heike Schotten, published in 2018.
Key words: terrorism, queer, Islamophobia, War on Terror, settler colonialism, imperialism
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Discussion Questions
- How is Zionism a central ideological and material component of the War on Terror?
- Can “terrorism” be understood as anti-Zionist resistance? How are “terrorism,” queerness, and anti-colonial resistance cast together in the book as somehow synonymous or interchangeable?
- How does futurism, as a theory of desire, explain the expansionist, exterminatory, and securitizing character of, in turn, the state, imperialism, and settler colonialism?
- How is a radical or dissident understanding of queerness useful in theorizing and enacting anti-Zionism/anti-Zionist resistance?
Supplementary Materials and Resources
George W. Bush’s address to congress formally launching the war on terror on Sept. 20, 2001
Transcript | Benjamin Netanyahu testifying before Congress on Sept. 20, 2001
Middle East Eye: This is the Man Under the Hood
Ellen DeGeneres hosting the 2001 Emmys
Ellen DeGeneres on being friends with George W. Bush
Critical rendering of Ellen DeGeneres on being friends with George W. Bush
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