Professor Petrus Liu Publishes Book, “The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus.”
Petrus Liu, Associate Chair of WLL and Associate Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Cinema & Media Studies has recently published a book titled The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus. The work, focusing mainly on geopolitical queer theory, includes analyses by Liu of various films.
From the publisher: “In The Specter of Materialism Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensus—global capitalism’s latest mutation—to develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality. Liu explores how relations of gender and sexuality get reconfigured to meet the needs of capital in new regimes of accumulation and dispossession, demonstrating that evolving US-Asian economic relations shape the emergence of new queer identities and academic theories. In so doing, he offers a new history of collective struggles that provides a transnational framework for understanding the nexus between queerness and material life.”
The book was published on January 13th through Duke University Press, and members of the BU community can access it on JSTOR through BU Libraries.