As social issue fatigue threatens to isolate even the most robust justice scholars and activists, Hong asks us to hold our contemporary complexities in unresolved tension. She invites us back to the table, asking us to attend to how our lives and others’ deaths are related and to how neoliberalism works to redefine, and obfuscate, these connections. To understand how racialized, sexualized, and gendered differences are produced, Hong argues that exploring death, as well as the work of neoliberal technologies to erase marginalized memories of death, reveals the uneven distribution of precarity and violence. The book will benefit any seminar or study that seeks to parse the tangled complexity of contemporary oppressions in and through U.S. American political structures, as well as any who seek an exemplar of how to do so with academic rigor, exceptional feminist citation practices, and ethical elegance.
Articles by Nicole T. Castro
Nicole T. Castro, MA, (she/her) is a Buddhist, scholar, biracial woman of color. In research and life, she brings a lens of embodiment and mindfulness to study violence. She asks who gets to define violence and is curious how certain co-created spaces can invite and encourage people to practice new, non-violent forms of communicating. Adjacent research interests include: intrapersonal communication and embodied knowledges; how queer, nondyadic relationships disrupt problematic heteronormativity; and the lack of language around consent, coercion, and sexual violence. Committed to making her work legible and helpful beyond the academy, Nicole serves in multiple community organizations and tries her best to meditate on a regular basis. She fosters kittens, plays Dungeons & Dragons, and can happily eat oven pizza multiple days a week.