
Elsewhere in America
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Through 12 detailed chapters, the book applies critical theory in the humanities and social sciences to examine recurring crises of social inclusion in the U.S. After two centuries of incremental "progress" in securing human dignity, today the U.S. finds itself torn by new conflicts over reproductive rights, immigration, health care, religious extremism, sexual orientation, mental illness, and fear of terrorists. Is there a way of explaining this recurring tendency of Americans to turn against each other? Elsewhere in America engages these questions, charting the ever-changing faces of difference (manifest in contested landscapes of sex and race to such areas as disability and mental health), their spectral and intersectional character (recent discourses on performativity, normativity, and queer theory), and the grounds on which categories are manifest in ideation and movement politics (metapolitics, cosmopolitanism, dismodernism).
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"This is a terrific book--smart, provocative, engaging, and clearly written. It offers a memorable set of readings for students and scholars alike. Each chapter is a gem of organization, integration, and argument. Trend's essays lead the reader through a maze of countervailing theories and positions leaving them with a much stronger sense of the complexity of our present time. Trend's book is less about critique (though the critique is powerful) and more about a kind of hope that is restrained yet feasible."Richard A. Quantz, Professor, Miami University
"Trend is a lucid writer able to unmask the internal contractions of the neoliberal order with theoretical and conceptual clarity, as he writes with urgency to make sense of a fractured America in a changing world economy."
Rodolfo D. Torres, Professor, University of California, Irvine, and former Adam Smith Fellow, University of Glasgow
"Elsewhere in America offers a prescient, non-dialectical approach to alterity, deftly revealing the hidden paradoxes inherent to so-called positions of "center" and "margin" within current media-driven polemics. Skirting binary logic, Trend offers a series of daring new formulations for hybrid positionalities - neither utopian nor dystopian - that afford theory to be transposed effectively into practice. Elsewhere in America will sit on my bookshelf along side Chantal Mouffe and Henry A. Giroux as an invaluable go-to source for artists and writers rethinking democracy in this age of political extremism."
Juli Carson, Professor, Univesity of California, Irvine
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Part I: Belonging There: People Like Us
Makers and Takers: When More is Not Enough
The Wealth of Nations
Other People's Money
The Virtues of Selfishness
Cultures of Unreason
2. True Believers: Spiritual Life in a Secular Age
Surprised by Sin
True Believers?
Selective Memories
A History of Religious Outsiders
3. Ordinary People: The Normal and the Pathological
Inventing Normal
Laws of Averages
Standard Deviations
Common Denominators
4. Homeland Insecurities: Expecting the Worst
A Dangerous World?
Barbarians at the Gate
Privacy Rights and Wrongs
Something to Hide
Organized Hate
Part II: Belonging Somewhere: Blurred Boundaries
5. Reality is Broken: Neoliberalism and the Virtual Economy
Neoliberalism Revisited
Citizenship, Inc.
The Politics of Culture
Aesthetic Contradictions
Virtual Rebels
6. Mistaken Identities: From Color Blindness to Gender Bending
Welcome to "Post-Identity" America
The Race for Race
Pictures at an Exhibition
Bending Sex and Gender
Varieties of Gazing
7. No Body is Perfect: Disability in a Posthuman Age
No Body is Perfect
Constructions of Ableism
The Dismodern Condition
The Posthuman Body
8. On the Spectrum: America's Mental Health Disorder
Stigma and Discrimination
On Invisibility and Passing
The Shame Game
The Affective Turn
Political Feelings
Part III: Belonging Elsewhere: The Subject of Utopia
9. Gaming the System: Competition and its Discontents
No Contest
Doing God's Business
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
The Power of Giving
Game Over
10. To Affinity and Beyond: The Cyborg and the Cosmopolitan
A Cyborg Manifesto
Third Person Plural
Queering Heterosexuality
Crip Analogies
Realms of Mattering
11. Medicating the Problem: The New American Pharmakon
The Narcotic Tower of Babel
Models of Addiction
Writing on Drugs
Recovery
Big Pharma
12. The One and the Many: The Ethics of Uncertainty
Be Here Now
Possession and Dispossession
The One and the Many
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