UC Santa Barbara Electronic Theses and Dissertations

UC Santa Barbara Electronic Theses and Dissertations

UC Santa Barbara UC Santa Barbara Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Boundary Affects: Race, Gender, Sex, and Species in the U.S. "War on Terror" Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0nh3k0ns Author Diamond-Lenow, Chloe E Publication Date 2018 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara Boundary Affects: Race, Gender, Sex, and Species in the U.S. “War on Terror” A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Feminist Studies by Chloe E. Diamond-Lenow Committee in charge: Professor Barbara Tomlinson, Chair Professor Mireille Miller-Young Professor George Lipsitz Professor Esther Lezra December 2018 The dissertation of Chloe Diamond-Lenow is approved. ____________________________________________ Mireille Miller-Young ____________________________________________ George Lispitz ____________________________________________ Esther Lezra ____________________________________________ Barbara Tomlinson, Committee Chair November 2018 Boundary Affects: Race, Gender, Sex, and Species in the U.S. “War on Terror” Copyright © 2018 by Chloe E. Diamond-Lenow iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Completion of this dissertation was a labor of love that would not have been possible without the support of many—mentors, colleagues, friends, family, and pets. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my committee chair, Barbara Tomlinson, whose commitment to ethical ways of thinking with shaped the core of this project and my own sense of what it means to be a scholar. I thank her for her dedication to thinking with me and my work, accompanying me at every step with full attention, curiosity, rigor, and humor. Her work on affect, feminist argument, and intersectionality continue to shape my approach to feminist scholarship, pedagogy, and life. Without her mentorship, guidance, support, and generosity, this dissertation would not have been possible. I am incredibly grateful for a brilliant dissertation committee who provided me with generous and generative support. Mireille Miller-Young helped me at critical stages of this project with insightful mentorship. I am so appreciative of her innovative work in sexuality studies and for the communities of scholars in sexuality studies she created at the University of California, Santa Barbara. George Lipsitz provided me with feedback on this project at various stages and helped me think critically about the insidious workings of racialized power and the ever-present possibilities for resistance. I thank him for his poetic teachings and continued support. Esther Lezra offered compassion and support at the start and end of this project and I am grateful for the lenses of visual culture and global politics she offered in discussions of my work. Faculty and staff in the Feminist Studies Department at UCSB provided me with invaluable support during my time in graduate school—intellectually and emotionally. iv Laury Oaks assisted and encouraged me in innumerable ways—from helping me hone my research skills, to providing immense kindness and care through difficult times. Edwina Barvosa, Eileen Boris, Leila Rupp, and Jennifer Tyburczy all facilitated my intellectual growth as a graduate student; from discussions in their seminars, to advice on research and writing, they helped me develop the tools to undertake my research and writing. Christina Toy and Lou Anne Lockwood welcomed me to Santa Barbara and made me feel at home immediately and I am thankful for their friendship, for the many conversations we shared about life, and for their administrative work and support. Crystal Carlos and Sonya Baker also offered generous administrative support, particularly as I completed this project. I was lucky to receive guidance and teaching beyond my home department and am grateful for other faculty at UCSB who helped me to sharpen my tools of analysis and critique—Paul Amar, Felice Blake, Avery Gordon, Chela Sandoval, Glyn Salton-Cox, Sherene Seikaly, and Russell Samolsky. I am also thankful for the feedback from scholars including Claire Jean Kim, Lori Gruen, Kari Weil, and Susan McHugh whose work in feminist animal studies and feedback on this project in various stages has been central to developing my own arguments, theories and interventions. I also benefitted immensely from friendships and working groups with fellow graduate students during my time at UCSB. Collegiality and support of fellow graduate students in the UCSB Feminist Studies PhD program—particularly from Anna Wald, Chelsea Jones, Rachel Rys, Anita Stahl, Sandibel Borges, Karen Hanna, and Leigh Dodson—were central to my own intellectual growth and happiness in graduate school. I cannot imagine the beginning years of my PhD without Leigh Dodson by my side—my comrade and accomplice from day one. v My colleagues in the HumAnimality Research Focus Group at UCSB and at the Animals in Society Institute and Wesleyan University’s Human-Animal Studies Fellowship provided wonderful collaboration and conversations that helped me think through central problematics in animal studies as they related to my work. I am particularly thankful for support from Erica Tom, Marianna Szczygielska, Sharalyn Sanders, Katherine Kelpp- Stebbins, Marcel Brousseau, Alexandra Megaru, and Alston D’Silva. I am also grateful for the support from The New Sexualities Research Focus Group at UCSB and the generous feedback I received on my project during our writing retreats. I am lucky to have found a network of colleagues in feminist animal studies through collaborative work at conferences. Logan O’Laughlin and Meredith Clarke became important friends, colleagues, and interlocuters as we developed our projects together and thought with each other on various panels over the years, and I am appreciative of their willingness to think and work together. I would also like to express my deepest gratitude and love for my friends from graduate school who helped me not only in writing this project in its various stages, but also in building queer kinship networks of love, support, and generosity: Maryam Griffin, Mary McGuire, Teddy Pozzo, J.J. Allen, Alison Reed, Athena Tan, Bridget Harr, Bri Spears, Elizabeth Rahilly, Alyssa Newman, and Félix Solano Vargas. I thank them for sharing compassion, warmth, and pleasure from near and far. Financial support from the UCSB Feminist Studies Department, the UCSB Graduate Division Regents’ Special Fellowship, the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and the Animals in Society Institute and Wesleyan University’s Human-Animal Studies Fellowship all allowed me to undertake and complete my research and writing for this project and I am thankful for this support. vi I am tremendously appreciative of my time in Santa Barbara during graduate school and am forever grateful to have been able to spend my time in this small paradise. Thank you to the ocean, the sand, and then sun, for the warmth, the comfort, and the beauty that surrounded me. I am extremely thankful for the communities of support I found in Santa Barbara and for those who kept me grounded. Kelly Heath’s wise and vulnerable teachings gave me space to connect to myself in all the ways I did and didn’t know I needed. Cara Ferrick provided me with a new path to healing and gave me the tools to share this healing with others. Torrey Trover, Madeleine Foster, Kimberly Zimmerman and Laura DuSchane helped me re-connect to the pleasure of movement and held space for me in many powerful ways. I am indebted to my family for their continued love, wit, generosity, and support. My father, Howard Lenow, instilled a commitment to social justice in me from an early age. I am forever and profoundly grateful for his dedication to my happiness and well-being in my personal and professional life, for his depths of generosity, and for modeling for me how to approach life with compassion and humor. I am also thankful for my twin, Sasha, for continuing to be the nag to my mule, to Jared, my brother, for helping me sharpen my tools of feminist argument, and to Derry, for her sweet words of encouragement and understanding. I am also thankful for animal kin. My bulldog Rumples and cat Jack provided me with grounding companionship as I completed this project and I am thankful for the joy and warmth they bring to my life every day. And finally, I owe my deepest thanks to Alexandra Duncan, my partner in life, who has shown me unwavering love and compassion as we moved from sunshine to snow. She continues to help me find new depths of love, curiosity, vulnerability, and joy as we build vii our lives together. I thank her for being my sun and my rock and for supporting me through the highs and lows of this project and this life. viii VITA OF CHLOE E. DIAMOND-LENOW December 2018 EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy in Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, December 2018 Master of Science in Gender Studies, The London School of Economics and Political Science, June 2009 (with Distinction) Bachelor of Arts in Women and Gender Studies, Smith College, June 2008 (cum laude) PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT University of Minnesota Duluth Visiting Assistant Professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (August 2017- present) University of California, Santa Barbara Teaching Associate/Teaching Assistant in Feminist Studies (June 2011-August 2017) PUBLICATIONS “Tracing the Animal in the Human: A Review of Christopher Peterson’s Bestial Traces: Race, Animality

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