The New Militarization, The State and the Making of the Citizen Patriot

"The New Militarization, The State and the Making of the Citizen Patriot" Sexuality studies and transnational feminism have developed largely along separate disciplinary tracts. Alexander offers an analytic path out of this disciplinary segregation by way of an examination of this contemporary moment of U.S. militarization and empire building, to show how these are racialized, sexualized processes in which the state has mobilized a new figure--the citizen patriot--as one of the anchors for the success of empire. Since no war can be waged without the creation of an enemy, we will examine how both external and internal enemy production are crucial in consolidating the ideological work of empire. It is an urgent time for these fields to wrestle with the political, ethical and intellectual commitments they must confront if transnational feminism is to take on more explicitly the sexual dimensions of globalization at the same time that sexuality studies takes seriously the transnational dimensions of sex and empire.

If you would like more information about co-sponsoring or helping out with this event and others like it, please contact CLGSA through Zamora at zamoram@stanford.edu. ***Crossings: Sexual, Spiritual, Transnational,Transgenerational*** M. Jacqui Alexander, Ph.D For the past two decades, M. Jacqui Alexander has worked as teacher, scholar, activist and writer, crossing boundaries of geography, nationality, discipline and epistemology in so doing. She has lectured extensively in the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, Europe and Africa; delivered numerous keynote conference addresses; facilitated workshops; taught seminars and summer day schools; and consulted and organized transnational conferences. Her awards include fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Ford and National Science Foundations and the Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions. She is a member of the Caribbean Association of Feminist Research and Action and has served on the board of CLAGS, The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies.

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