GCSC KNL l Prof. Dr. Mari Harris (Cornell University, UK) " What is Queer Marxism?"
- https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns/veranstaltungen/sonstige/gcsc-knl-what-is-queer-marxism
- GCSC KNL l Prof. Dr. Mari Harris (Cornell University, UK) " What is Queer Marxism?"
- 2025-06-24T18:00:00+02:00
- 2025-06-24T20:00:00+02:00
24.06.2025 von 18:00 bis 20:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
MFR GCSC Otto-Behaghel Str. 12 / Online (BBB)
Jarris’s current book manuscript, Utopia as Revolution: Marxism’s Queer Pasts and Futures, posits that utopia has been a site for theorizing queerness and Marxism together since the nineteenth century. It offers a counternarrative to the dominance of scientific socialism by tracing the transnational queer Marxism that emerges from a rereading of canonical German, Russian, and French socialist texts as utopian. At the same time, Utopia as Revolution seeks to expand the Marxist archive to include overlooked visions of polyamory, androgyny, the socialization of motherly care, and queer kinship. They have also begun a second book project that examines the literary and visual representation of queerness in the Weimar Republic and early Soviet Union against the backdrop of German and Russian colonialism, arguing that ethnoracial hierarchies were co-constitutive of “modern” queer identities.
Research Focus
- 19th- and 20th-Century German- and Russian-Language Literature
- Socialisms and Marxisms
- Feminist and Queer Theory
- Utopianism
- Critical Theory