Norm-critical rationality: emotions and the institutional influence of queer resistance. Issue 2 (4th May 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Henriksson, Andreas
• Is Part Of: Journal of political power. Volume 10:Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 149
• Page End: 165
• Publication Date: 2017-05-04
• Subjects: Norm critique -- emotions -- rationality -- Foucault -- power; Power (Social sciences) -- Periodicals; Power (Philosophy) -- Periodicals; 303.305
• DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2017.1336339
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2158-379X

Abstract

Abstract: Norm critique is a recent discourse and practice in Sweden that is associated with queer resistance. It is taken up as a mode of governance in several Swedish institutions and companies. At face value, norm critique allows queer resistance to have a direct impact on institutional sources of norms in society. However, this article argues that such a shift in queer resistance replaces the queer emotionally overt subject with a rationalist style of emoting. It also argues that norm critique (re)institutes a subject position that paradoxically sides with contemporary forms of power and its demands for emotional competence.