Journal articleDifferences · September 1, 2016
The term gender has, for many years, been invoked as if it solved all the problems inherent in the category of sex. But has gender-as term and as concept-created another set of problems and problematic analogies? Is it the red herring of current work in ou ...
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Journal articleSouth Atlantic Quarterly · December 1, 2013
Khanna engages the notion of the lumpenproletariat in Frantz Fanon, tracing the concept through Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, its transformation through Fanon, and its commonality with and distinction from notions of the subaltern. She draws in particula ...
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Journal articleFeminist Theory · August 1, 2012
This article argues that psychoanalytic notions of affect - including ideas of anxiety and melancholia, as well as deconstructive concepts of auto-affection - offer a feminist ethico-politics and a notion of affect as interface. Beyond the confines of the ...
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Journal articleDifferences · August 18, 2009
This article discusses disposability in light of what psychoanalysis can offer to an analysis of that term, understood as a contemporary characteristic of the human and its liminal condition. The essay questions why a program of social change is demanded o ...
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Journal articleEthnic and Racial Studies · March 1, 2007
This essay, 'Indignity', argues for a radical reassessment of the category of dignity as the basis for the human or humanity. Suggesting that this Kantian notion, employed liberally in human rights work, modern constitutions, and philosophical frameworks, ...
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