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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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2015

ISBN

9781317589983

Edition

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

Politics

Index

Politics & International Relations

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