Sexualities in world politics : how LGBTQ claims shape international relations
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Sexualities in world politics : how LGBTQ claims shape international relations
(Interventions)
Routledge, 2015
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- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Sexualities in World Politics: how LGBTQ claims shape IR, Manuela Picq and Markus Thiel 1. Human rights, LGBT rights & international theory, Anthony Langlois 2. To love or to loathe: modernity, homophobia and LGBT rights, Mike Bosia 3 LGBT & (Dis)United Nations: sexual minorities, international law, and UN politics, Francine D'Amico 4. Exploring transversal and particularistic politics in the European Union's anti-discrimination policy: the role of LGBT politics, Markus Thiel 5. Sexual diffusion and conceptual confusions: homosexualities, muslims cultures and modernity, Momin Rahman 6. Amazon prides: LGBT perspectives on international relations, Manuela L. Picq 7. Between the universal and the particular: the politics of the recognition of LGBT rights in Turkey, Mehmet Sinan Birdal 8.Queering Security Studies in Northern Ireland: Problem, Practice and Practitioner, Sandra McEvoy LGBTQ politics/global politics/international relations, Laura Sjoberg
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