{"product_id":"civic-intimacies-black-queer-improvisations-on-citizenship-hardback-9781439918425","title":"Civic Intimacies; Black Queer Improvisations on Citizenship (Hardback) 9781439918425","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCivic Intimacies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBlack Queer Improvisations on Citizenship\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNiels van Doorn (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781439918425\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 June 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e278 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.5 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eCivic Intimacies \u003ci\u003eis a thoughtful, timely, and engaging critique that rethinks the category of citizenship not simply as the domain of those on the inside but as constituted through its outside, through those subjects or nonsubjects that are seen as the very antithesis of sovereignty, subjectivity, and citizenship. Van Doorn challenges hegemonic notions of citizenship while also demonstrating how Black queer subjects create new understandings of citizenship through political, social, and cultural work.”\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003cb\u003eRashad Shabazz\u003c\/b\u003e, Associate Professor in the School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, and author of \u003ci\u003eSpatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack queer lives often exist outside conventional civic institutions and therefore have to explore alternative intimacies to experience a sense of belonging. \u003ci\u003eCivic Intimacies\u003c\/i\u003e examines how-and to what extent-these different forms of intimacy catalyze the values, aspirations, and collective flourishing of Black queer denizens of Baltimore. Niels van Doorn draws on 18 months of immersive ethnographic fieldwork for his innovative cross-disciplinary analysis of contemporary debates in political and cultural theory. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVan Doorn describes the way that these systematically marginalized communities improvise on citizenship not just to survive but also to thrive despite the proliferation of violence and insecurity in their lives. By reimagining citizenship as the everyday reparative work of building support structures, \u003ci\u003eCivic Intimacies\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the extent to which sex, kinship, memory, religious faith, and sexual health are rooted in collective practices that are deeply political. These systems sustain the lives of Black queer Baltimoreans who find themselves stuck in a city they cannot give up on-even though it has in many ways given up on them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52586873782552,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/civic-intimacies-black-queer-improvisations-on-citizenship-hardback-9781439918425","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}