Sexualities in World Politics
eBook - ePub

Sexualities in World Politics

How LGBTQ claims shape International Relations

  1. 178 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Sexualities in World Politics

How LGBTQ claims shape International Relations

About this book

As LGBTQ claims acquire global relevance, how do sexual politics impact the study of International Relations? This book argues that LGBTQ perspectives are not only an inherent part of world politics but can also influence IR theory-making. LGBTQ politics have simultaneously gained international prominence in the past decade, achieving significant policy change, and provoked cultural resistance and policy pushbacks.

Sexuality politics, more so than gender-based theories, arrived late on the theoretical scene in part because sexuality and gender studies initially highlighted post-structuralist thinking, which was hardly accepted in mainstream political science. This book responds to a call for a more empirically motivated but also critical scholarship on this subject. It offers comparative case-studies from regional, cultural and theoretical peripheries to identify ways of rethinking IR. Further, it aims to add to critical theory, broadening the knowledge about previously unrecognized perspectives in an accessible manner. Being aware of preoccupations with the de-queering, disciplining nature of theory establishment in the social sciences, we critically reconsider IR concepts from a particular LGBTQ vantage point and infuse them with queer thinking. Considering the relative dearth of contemporary mainstream IR-theorizing, authors ask what contribution LGBTQ politics can provide for conceiving the political subject, as well as the international structure in which activism is embedded.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of gender politics, cultural studies and international relations theory.

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Yes, you can access Sexualities in World Politics by Manuela Lavinas Picq, Markus Thiel, Manuela Lavinas Picq,Markus Thiel in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Politics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Book Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of tables
  8. List of contributors
  9. Preface
  10. Introduction: sexualities in world politics
  11. 1 Human rights, LGBT rights, and international theory
  12. 2 To love or to loathe: modernity, homophobia, and LGBT rights
  13. 3 LGBT and (Dis)United Nations: sexual and gender minorities, international law, and UN politics
  14. 4 Transversal and particularistic politics in the European Union’s antidiscrimination policy: LGBT politics under neoliberalism
  15. 5 Sexual diffusions and conceptual confusions: Muslim homophobia and Muslim homosexualities in the context of modernity
  16. 6 Peripheral prides: Amazon perspectives on LGBT politics
  17. 7 Between the universal and the particular: the politics of recognition of LGBT rights in turkey
  18. 8 Queering security studies in Northern Ireland: problem, practice, and practitioner
  19. Conclusion: LGBTQ politics/global politics/international relations
  20. Glossary
  21. Index