Book Excerpt! Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony

This week we are featuring titles from our New Directions in Critical Theory series. Today we have an excerpt from C. Heike Schotten’s Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony. In this book, C. Heike Schotten offers a critique of U.S. settler-colonial empire that draws on political, queer, and critical indigenous theory to reframe the concept of terrorism. She provides an anatomy of the War on Terror’s moralism, arguing for a new interpretation of biopolitics that is focused on sovereignty and desire rather than racism and biology.

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Read the introduction to Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony.