Rahul Rao
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199560370
- eISBN:
- 9780191721694
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199560370.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory, International Relations and Politics
Third World queer activists are increasingly caught between two discourses that challenge their self‐assertion: first, an occasionally orientalist cosmopolitan discourse of ‘LGBT rights’ that regards ...
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Third World queer activists are increasingly caught between two discourses that challenge their self‐assertion: first, an occasionally orientalist cosmopolitan discourse of ‘LGBT rights’ that regards such rights as a marker of modernity and portrays societies that fail to respect them as backward; second, homophobic communitarian discourses of authenticity that contest queer self‐assertion with the claim that homosexuality is a Western vice. This chapter attempts to criticize power hierarchies within cosmopolitan LGBT solidarity, without downplaying the oppressiveness of communitarian homophobia against which such solidarity is directed. To do this, it disaggregates Western activist responses to cases of alleged persecution of homosexuals in Iran, bringing to light distinct manifestations of a gay rescue narrative. While some activists capitalized on the resonance between apparent queer rights abuses in Iran and the security preoccupations of Western states in the ongoing ‘war on terror’ to further their own domestic agendas of assimilation, others were wary of participating in such a politics.Less
Third World queer activists are increasingly caught between two discourses that challenge their self‐assertion: first, an occasionally orientalist cosmopolitan discourse of ‘LGBT rights’ that regards such rights as a marker of modernity and portrays societies that fail to respect them as backward; second, homophobic communitarian discourses of authenticity that contest queer self‐assertion with the claim that homosexuality is a Western vice. This chapter attempts to criticize power hierarchies within cosmopolitan LGBT solidarity, without downplaying the oppressiveness of communitarian homophobia against which such solidarity is directed. To do this, it disaggregates Western activist responses to cases of alleged persecution of homosexuals in Iran, bringing to light distinct manifestations of a gay rescue narrative. While some activists capitalized on the resonance between apparent queer rights abuses in Iran and the security preoccupations of Western states in the ongoing ‘war on terror’ to further their own domestic agendas of assimilation, others were wary of participating in such a politics.
Cynthia Weber
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199795857
- eISBN:
- 9780190462055
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199795857.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Comparative Politics
How are sovereignty and sexuality entangled in contemporary international politics? What understandings of sovereignty and sexuality inform contemporary theories and foreign policies on development, ...
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How are sovereignty and sexuality entangled in contemporary international politics? What understandings of sovereignty and sexuality inform contemporary theories and foreign policies on development, immigration, terrorism, human rights, and regional integration? How specifically is the ‘homosexual’ figured in these theories and policies to support or contest traditional understandings of sovereignty? This book puts international relations scholarship and transnational/global queer studies scholarship in conversation to address these questions and their implications for contemporary international politics. It traces how the ‘homosexual’ is conventionally figured—as either a perverse creature whom sovereign nation-states must secure themselves against or as a normal human being whom sovereign nation-states should embrace—to wield sexuality in support of conventional understandings of state sovereignty. It also traces how unconventional figurations of the ‘homosexual’ as both normal and/or perverse so defy either/or logics of sovereignty and of sexuality that these ‘normal and/or perverse homosexuals’ begin to unravel modern understandings of state sovereignty itself. By analyzing figurations of the ‘homosexual’ as the ‘underdeveloped’, the ‘undevelopable’, the ‘unwanted im/migrant’, the ‘terrorist’, the ‘gay rights holder’, the ‘gay patriot’ and Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst’s ‘bearded lady’, this book shows how the will to knowledge about the ‘homosexual’ is fundamental to contemporary international theories of sovereignty and of contemporary foreign policy.Less
How are sovereignty and sexuality entangled in contemporary international politics? What understandings of sovereignty and sexuality inform contemporary theories and foreign policies on development, immigration, terrorism, human rights, and regional integration? How specifically is the ‘homosexual’ figured in these theories and policies to support or contest traditional understandings of sovereignty? This book puts international relations scholarship and transnational/global queer studies scholarship in conversation to address these questions and their implications for contemporary international politics. It traces how the ‘homosexual’ is conventionally figured—as either a perverse creature whom sovereign nation-states must secure themselves against or as a normal human being whom sovereign nation-states should embrace—to wield sexuality in support of conventional understandings of state sovereignty. It also traces how unconventional figurations of the ‘homosexual’ as both normal and/or perverse so defy either/or logics of sovereignty and of sexuality that these ‘normal and/or perverse homosexuals’ begin to unravel modern understandings of state sovereignty itself. By analyzing figurations of the ‘homosexual’ as the ‘underdeveloped’, the ‘undevelopable’, the ‘unwanted im/migrant’, the ‘terrorist’, the ‘gay rights holder’, the ‘gay patriot’ and Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst’s ‘bearded lady’, this book shows how the will to knowledge about the ‘homosexual’ is fundamental to contemporary international theories of sovereignty and of contemporary foreign policy.
Swati Parashar, J. Ann Tickner, and Jacqui True (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- March 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190644031
- eISBN:
- 9780190644079
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190644031.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Political Economy
State sovereignty and autonomy in the twenty-first century are both under challenge and continually reasserted in diverse ways through gender, sexuality, and race-making. This paradox makes it ...
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State sovereignty and autonomy in the twenty-first century are both under challenge and continually reasserted in diverse ways through gender, sexuality, and race-making. This paradox makes it pertinent to revisit the idea of states as gendered political entities. Bringing together scholars from international relations and postcolonial and development studies, this volume collectively theorizes the modern state and its intricate relationship to security, identity politics, and gender. Drawing on postcolonial and critical feminist approaches, together with empirical case studies, contributors engage with the ontological foundations of the modern state and its capacity to adapt to the global and local contestations of its identity, histories, and purpose. They examine the various ways in which gender explains the construction and interplay of states in global politics today; and how states, be they neoliberal, postcolonial, or religious (or all three together), impact the everyday lives and security of their citizens. Such a rich array of feminist analyses of multiple kinds of states provides crucial insight into gender injustices in relatively stable states, but also into the political, economic, social, and cultural inequalities that produce violent conflicts threatening the sovereignty of some states and even leading to the creation of new states.Less
State sovereignty and autonomy in the twenty-first century are both under challenge and continually reasserted in diverse ways through gender, sexuality, and race-making. This paradox makes it pertinent to revisit the idea of states as gendered political entities. Bringing together scholars from international relations and postcolonial and development studies, this volume collectively theorizes the modern state and its intricate relationship to security, identity politics, and gender. Drawing on postcolonial and critical feminist approaches, together with empirical case studies, contributors engage with the ontological foundations of the modern state and its capacity to adapt to the global and local contestations of its identity, histories, and purpose. They examine the various ways in which gender explains the construction and interplay of states in global politics today; and how states, be they neoliberal, postcolonial, or religious (or all three together), impact the everyday lives and security of their citizens. Such a rich array of feminist analyses of multiple kinds of states provides crucial insight into gender injustices in relatively stable states, but also into the political, economic, social, and cultural inequalities that produce violent conflicts threatening the sovereignty of some states and even leading to the creation of new states.
Cynthia Weber
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199795857
- eISBN:
- 9780190462055
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199795857.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Comparative Politics
This chapter suggests that the discipline of international relations and the field of transnational/global queer studies suffer from mutual neglect. The effect of this mutual neglect is that ...
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This chapter suggests that the discipline of international relations and the field of transnational/global queer studies suffer from mutual neglect. The effect of this mutual neglect is that international relations underappreciates how sexuality functions in international relations theory and in foreign policy and that transnational/global queer studies underappreciates how sovereignty functions in transnational/global queer studies and in foreign policy. This book puts these two scholarly fields in conversation to begin to correct this problem. It argues that by putting (transnational/global) queer studies scholarship and (queer) IR scholarship in conversation around sexuality and sovereignty, not only do a plethora of sexualized and sovereign national, regional, and international figurations and their stakes for IR and for queer studies come into focus. So, too, do what this chapter calls queer logics of statecraft that confirm, contest, and extend understandings of how the will to knowledge about sexualized sovereign subjectivities functions in domestic and international games of power.Less
This chapter suggests that the discipline of international relations and the field of transnational/global queer studies suffer from mutual neglect. The effect of this mutual neglect is that international relations underappreciates how sexuality functions in international relations theory and in foreign policy and that transnational/global queer studies underappreciates how sovereignty functions in transnational/global queer studies and in foreign policy. This book puts these two scholarly fields in conversation to begin to correct this problem. It argues that by putting (transnational/global) queer studies scholarship and (queer) IR scholarship in conversation around sexuality and sovereignty, not only do a plethora of sexualized and sovereign national, regional, and international figurations and their stakes for IR and for queer studies come into focus. So, too, do what this chapter calls queer logics of statecraft that confirm, contest, and extend understandings of how the will to knowledge about sexualized sovereign subjectivities functions in domestic and international games of power.
Cynthia Weber
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199795857
- eISBN:
- 9780190462055
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199795857.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Comparative Politics
Chapter 7 concludes by considering the limits of the will to knowledge about ‘homosexuality’ and the ‘homosexual’ in the dual registers of sexuality and sovereignty through Foucault’s provocations ...
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Chapter 7 concludes by considering the limits of the will to knowledge about ‘homosexuality’ and the ‘homosexual’ in the dual registers of sexuality and sovereignty through Foucault’s provocations about ‘the end of man’.Less
Chapter 7 concludes by considering the limits of the will to knowledge about ‘homosexuality’ and the ‘homosexual’ in the dual registers of sexuality and sovereignty through Foucault’s provocations about ‘the end of man’.
Deborah Cowen
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680870
- eISBN:
- 9781452949024
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680870.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This book investigates the world of logistics, tracing its movement over the last 60 years from the battlefield to the boardroom, and back again. With a focus on chokepoints - national borders, zones ...
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This book investigates the world of logistics, tracing its movement over the last 60 years from the battlefield to the boardroom, and back again. With a focus on chokepoints - national borders, zones of piracy, blockades, and cities – this book tracks contemporary efforts to keep stuff circulating and the new spaces of security and forms of violence they produce. This is the first book to analyse both the military and civilian world of logistics, refusing the usual segregation of these interlinked fields. Rough Trade considers contemporary logistics in the context of its long history and is centrally concerned with the role of war in trade. This is the first book to investigate the revolution in logistics outside the applied field of business management. This book draws on 7 years of fieldwork in many sites around the world while also offering a rich theoretical engagement with debates in political economy, science and technology studies, geography, security studies, and queer theory.Less
This book investigates the world of logistics, tracing its movement over the last 60 years from the battlefield to the boardroom, and back again. With a focus on chokepoints - national borders, zones of piracy, blockades, and cities – this book tracks contemporary efforts to keep stuff circulating and the new spaces of security and forms of violence they produce. This is the first book to analyse both the military and civilian world of logistics, refusing the usual segregation of these interlinked fields. Rough Trade considers contemporary logistics in the context of its long history and is centrally concerned with the role of war in trade. This is the first book to investigate the revolution in logistics outside the applied field of business management. This book draws on 7 years of fieldwork in many sites around the world while also offering a rich theoretical engagement with debates in political economy, science and technology studies, geography, security studies, and queer theory.
Chris Hendershot
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199364374
- eISBN:
- 9780199364404
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199364374.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Political Economy
This chapter conducts a queer rereading of the textual interpretations of and reactions to a sexualized hazing incident involving Armorgroup contractors tasked with guarding the US embassy in Kabul. ...
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This chapter conducts a queer rereading of the textual interpretations of and reactions to a sexualized hazing incident involving Armorgroup contractors tasked with guarding the US embassy in Kabul. Of particular import are both overt and implied articulations of unease with the transgression of heteronormative and phallocentric arrangements of intimate practices, space, and matter. The analysis makes evident that privatizing, militarizing, securing, and commercializing processes are also entangled with heteronormativity and phallo-centrism. The main argument of this chapter is that PMSCS, or more specifically the male/masculinized contractors they employ, readily and regularly perform work that is integral to heteronormative and phallocentric arrangement and governance of (post)conflict spaces. However, the actual bodily integrity of the male/masculinized contractors is by no means secured through their work for PMSCs.Less
This chapter conducts a queer rereading of the textual interpretations of and reactions to a sexualized hazing incident involving Armorgroup contractors tasked with guarding the US embassy in Kabul. Of particular import are both overt and implied articulations of unease with the transgression of heteronormative and phallocentric arrangements of intimate practices, space, and matter. The analysis makes evident that privatizing, militarizing, securing, and commercializing processes are also entangled with heteronormativity and phallo-centrism. The main argument of this chapter is that PMSCS, or more specifically the male/masculinized contractors they employ, readily and regularly perform work that is integral to heteronormative and phallocentric arrangement and governance of (post)conflict spaces. However, the actual bodily integrity of the male/masculinized contractors is by no means secured through their work for PMSCs.
Deborah Cowen
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680870
- eISBN:
- 9781452949024
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680870.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
The introduction provides an overview of the text. This book offers a genealogical investigation of the modern art and science of logistics. It is centrally concerned with two major and related ...
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The introduction provides an overview of the text. This book offers a genealogical investigation of the modern art and science of logistics. It is centrally concerned with two major and related shifts that have taken place over the past six decades.Less
The introduction provides an overview of the text. This book offers a genealogical investigation of the modern art and science of logistics. It is centrally concerned with two major and related shifts that have taken place over the past six decades.
Deborah Cowen
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680870
- eISBN:
- 9781452949024
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680870.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Chapter 1 traces the long life and mobile meaning of logistics. It outlines the military history of logistics before turning to the ‘revolution in logistics’ of the 1960s, the birth of a corporate ...
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Chapter 1 traces the long life and mobile meaning of logistics. It outlines the military history of logistics before turning to the ‘revolution in logistics’ of the 1960s, the birth of a corporate science, and its remaking of spatial calculation and geo-political economic life.Less
Chapter 1 traces the long life and mobile meaning of logistics. It outlines the military history of logistics before turning to the ‘revolution in logistics’ of the 1960s, the birth of a corporate science, and its remaking of spatial calculation and geo-political economic life.
Deborah Cowen
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680870
- eISBN:
- 9781452949024
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680870.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Chapter 2 traces the birth of ‘supply chain security’ and examines the problem of disruption as part of the assemblage of the infrastructures, technologies, institutions, labour forces, and ...
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Chapter 2 traces the birth of ‘supply chain security’ and examines the problem of disruption as part of the assemblage of the infrastructures, technologies, institutions, labour forces, and regulations that support the building of the ‘seamless’ corridors and gateways of logistics space.Less
Chapter 2 traces the birth of ‘supply chain security’ and examines the problem of disruption as part of the assemblage of the infrastructures, technologies, institutions, labour forces, and regulations that support the building of the ‘seamless’ corridors and gateways of logistics space.
Deborah Cowen
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680870
- eISBN:
- 9781452949024
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680870.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Chapter 3 looks at the labor of logistics and situates recent initiatives to secure workers in a much longer tradition of managing the bodies and movements of productive labor.
Chapter 3 looks at the labor of logistics and situates recent initiatives to secure workers in a much longer tradition of managing the bodies and movements of productive labor.
Deborah Cowen
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680870
- eISBN:
- 9781452949024
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680870.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Chapter 4 investigates the crisis of Somali piracy as a problem of supply chain security. Firmly within the global social factory, the crucial shipping corridor of the Gulf of Aden has become a ...
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Chapter 4 investigates the crisis of Somali piracy as a problem of supply chain security. Firmly within the global social factory, the crucial shipping corridor of the Gulf of Aden has become a hotspot for experiments in martial, legal, and ‘humanitarian’ efforts that echo colonial violence of a century ago.Less
Chapter 4 investigates the crisis of Somali piracy as a problem of supply chain security. Firmly within the global social factory, the crucial shipping corridor of the Gulf of Aden has become a hotspot for experiments in martial, legal, and ‘humanitarian’ efforts that echo colonial violence of a century ago.
Deborah Cowen
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680870
- eISBN:
- 9781452949024
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680870.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Chapter 5 explores the urban revolution in logistics. It considers the rise of the ‘logistics city’ - a hybrid form that combines the exceptional spaces of the military base and the corporate export ...
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Chapter 5 explores the urban revolution in logistics. It considers the rise of the ‘logistics city’ - a hybrid form that combines the exceptional spaces of the military base and the corporate export processing zone. The logistics city provokes questions about urban citizenship, circulation, and struggle.Less
Chapter 5 explores the urban revolution in logistics. It considers the rise of the ‘logistics city’ - a hybrid form that combines the exceptional spaces of the military base and the corporate export processing zone. The logistics city provokes questions about urban citizenship, circulation, and struggle.
Deborah Cowen
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680870
- eISBN:
- 9781452949024
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680870.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
The conclusion looks to the corporate media campaigns and the branding of logistics as alternately lovable and lethal in human and more-than-human worlds. It visions of violence and desire in the ...
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The conclusion looks to the corporate media campaigns and the branding of logistics as alternately lovable and lethal in human and more-than-human worlds. It visions of violence and desire in the social and spatial assembly of logistics space, while highlighting paths towards alternative futures and perhaps even alternative economies of rough trade.Less
The conclusion looks to the corporate media campaigns and the branding of logistics as alternately lovable and lethal in human and more-than-human worlds. It visions of violence and desire in the social and spatial assembly of logistics space, while highlighting paths towards alternative futures and perhaps even alternative economies of rough trade.
Meghana Nayak
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199397624
- eISBN:
- 9780199397648
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199397624.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter explores those fleeing persecution targeting non-conforming gender identity and sexual orientation. However, these asylum seekers find that they must present narratives that prove they ...
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This chapter explores those fleeing persecution targeting non-conforming gender identity and sexual orientation. However, these asylum seekers find that they must present narratives that prove they are not “deviant,” by fitting expectations of how LGBTQ communities should act or express themselves. Further, many LGBTQ non-citizens are incentivized not to apply for asylum at all due to enduring homophobia and transphobia in US laws and practices. As a result of this “non-deviant” worthy victim frame, the United States is able to restrict the number of asylum seekers granted asylum while also presenting itself as superior to other countries from which LGBTQ migrants flee.Less
This chapter explores those fleeing persecution targeting non-conforming gender identity and sexual orientation. However, these asylum seekers find that they must present narratives that prove they are not “deviant,” by fitting expectations of how LGBTQ communities should act or express themselves. Further, many LGBTQ non-citizens are incentivized not to apply for asylum at all due to enduring homophobia and transphobia in US laws and practices. As a result of this “non-deviant” worthy victim frame, the United States is able to restrict the number of asylum seekers granted asylum while also presenting itself as superior to other countries from which LGBTQ migrants flee.
Cynthia Weber
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199795857
- eISBN:
- 9780190462055
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199795857.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Comparative Politics
Chapter 2 offers two theoretical and methodological approaches for analyzing figurations of the ‘homosexual’ and sexualized orders of international relations. The first combines Michel Foucault’s ...
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Chapter 2 offers two theoretical and methodological approaches for analyzing figurations of the ‘homosexual’ and sexualized orders of international relations. The first combines Michel Foucault’s concepts of ‘putting sex into discourse’, ‘productive power’, and ‘networks of power/knowledge/pleasure’ with Donna Haraway’s conceptualization of ‘figuration’, Judith Butler’s theory of performativity, and Richard K. Ashley’s arguments about ‘statecraft as mancraft’ to develop a method for analyzing figurations of the ‘homosexual’ and sexualized orders of international relations that are inscribed in IR as either normal or perverse. The chapter then combines these elements with Roland Barthes’s rule of the and/or, which offers instructions on how to read plural figures and plural logics that signify as normal and/or perverse—figures that might be described as queer. In so doing, it proposes an additional lens through which to investigate singularized and pluralized figurations of the ‘homosexual’ and sexualized orders of international relations—queer logics of statecraft.Less
Chapter 2 offers two theoretical and methodological approaches for analyzing figurations of the ‘homosexual’ and sexualized orders of international relations. The first combines Michel Foucault’s concepts of ‘putting sex into discourse’, ‘productive power’, and ‘networks of power/knowledge/pleasure’ with Donna Haraway’s conceptualization of ‘figuration’, Judith Butler’s theory of performativity, and Richard K. Ashley’s arguments about ‘statecraft as mancraft’ to develop a method for analyzing figurations of the ‘homosexual’ and sexualized orders of international relations that are inscribed in IR as either normal or perverse. The chapter then combines these elements with Roland Barthes’s rule of the and/or, which offers instructions on how to read plural figures and plural logics that signify as normal and/or perverse—figures that might be described as queer. In so doing, it proposes an additional lens through which to investigate singularized and pluralized figurations of the ‘homosexual’ and sexualized orders of international relations—queer logics of statecraft.
Cynthia Weber
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199795857
- eISBN:
- 9780190462055
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199795857.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Comparative Politics
Chapter 3 traces how heteronormativities figure the ‘homosexual’ as perverse in domestic and international discourses of development and underdevelopment, arguing that figurations of the ...
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Chapter 3 traces how heteronormativities figure the ‘homosexual’ as perverse in domestic and international discourses of development and underdevelopment, arguing that figurations of the ‘underdeveloped’ and the ‘undevelopable’ are among articulations of the ‘perverse homosexual’ in these Western discourses of sovereign statecraft as sovereign mancraft. The chapter focuses on Neville Hoad’s discussion of how Sigmund Freud’s use of the temporal trope of degeneracy explicitly figures the ‘homosexual’ as ‘arrested’ both sexually and civilizationally. Extending this discussion to IR/comparative politics, this chapter argues that Gabriel Almond’s figuration of the ‘decadent homosexual’ as ‘undevelopable’ in his modernization and development theory supplements Freud’s arguments. Almond figures the ‘undevelopable’ as the ‘decadent homosexual’ through Talcott Parsons’s vision of the nuclear family as the engine of biological, social, and political reproduction and development. The chapter concludes by considering how these figurations of the ‘homosexual’ as ‘underdeveloped’ and ‘undevelopable’ ground various sexualized orders of international relations.Less
Chapter 3 traces how heteronormativities figure the ‘homosexual’ as perverse in domestic and international discourses of development and underdevelopment, arguing that figurations of the ‘underdeveloped’ and the ‘undevelopable’ are among articulations of the ‘perverse homosexual’ in these Western discourses of sovereign statecraft as sovereign mancraft. The chapter focuses on Neville Hoad’s discussion of how Sigmund Freud’s use of the temporal trope of degeneracy explicitly figures the ‘homosexual’ as ‘arrested’ both sexually and civilizationally. Extending this discussion to IR/comparative politics, this chapter argues that Gabriel Almond’s figuration of the ‘decadent homosexual’ as ‘undevelopable’ in his modernization and development theory supplements Freud’s arguments. Almond figures the ‘undevelopable’ as the ‘decadent homosexual’ through Talcott Parsons’s vision of the nuclear family as the engine of biological, social, and political reproduction and development. The chapter concludes by considering how these figurations of the ‘homosexual’ as ‘underdeveloped’ and ‘undevelopable’ ground various sexualized orders of international relations.
Cynthia Weber
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199795857
- eISBN:
- 9780190462055
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199795857.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Comparative Politics
Chapter 6 argues that a range of diverse figurations of ‘homosexuality’ and the ‘homosexual’ in international politics exceed categorization as exclusively normal or perverse in relation to sex, ...
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Chapter 6 argues that a range of diverse figurations of ‘homosexuality’ and the ‘homosexual’ in international politics exceed categorization as exclusively normal or perverse in relation to sex, gender, and/or sexuality and sovereign forms of authority. These figures are either normal or perverse while simultaneously being normal and perverse. Through a close reading of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest winner and self-identified ‘homosexual’ Tom Neuwirth and/as the bearded drag queen Conchita Wurst, this chapter analyzes how the ‘normal and/or perverse homosexual’ functions as both a deliberate static in traditional logics of statecraft as mancraft and as a potentially plural ‘sovereign man’ in a queer logic of statecraft. Neuwirth/Wurst arguably makes possible a thorough rethinking of what the process of ‘European integration’ might mean and what a sovereign ‘integrated Europe’ might become, without reducing the ‘plural’ or the ‘queer’ to liberating or transgressive forms of sovereign subjectivity.Less
Chapter 6 argues that a range of diverse figurations of ‘homosexuality’ and the ‘homosexual’ in international politics exceed categorization as exclusively normal or perverse in relation to sex, gender, and/or sexuality and sovereign forms of authority. These figures are either normal or perverse while simultaneously being normal and perverse. Through a close reading of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest winner and self-identified ‘homosexual’ Tom Neuwirth and/as the bearded drag queen Conchita Wurst, this chapter analyzes how the ‘normal and/or perverse homosexual’ functions as both a deliberate static in traditional logics of statecraft as mancraft and as a potentially plural ‘sovereign man’ in a queer logic of statecraft. Neuwirth/Wurst arguably makes possible a thorough rethinking of what the process of ‘European integration’ might mean and what a sovereign ‘integrated Europe’ might become, without reducing the ‘plural’ or the ‘queer’ to liberating or transgressive forms of sovereign subjectivity.
Nicola Smith
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190204235
- eISBN:
- 9780190204266
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190204235.003.0013
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Political Economy
This chapter considers what it might mean to queer “the” economic crisis, given that same-sex and other non-normative sexualities are routinely erased in debates about “the economy.” However, it is ...
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This chapter considers what it might mean to queer “the” economic crisis, given that same-sex and other non-normative sexualities are routinely erased in debates about “the economy.” However, it is not enough simply to “add queer and stir” to discussions of economic crisis; a central thrust of queer theory has been to critique notions of sexual identity as coherent and stable and for them to be organized and policed as such. Rather, a queer political economy of crisis should also interrogate how “crisis” itself is constituted through heteronormative gender logics and power relations. The chapter explores how neoliberal policy responses to crisis in the United Kingdom are serving to disadvantage lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBT/Q) communities and others who fall outside heterosexist, married monogamy (such as single parents), and how heteronormative imaginaries of “the family” are playing an important role in reproducing the neoliberal economic order.Less
This chapter considers what it might mean to queer “the” economic crisis, given that same-sex and other non-normative sexualities are routinely erased in debates about “the economy.” However, it is not enough simply to “add queer and stir” to discussions of economic crisis; a central thrust of queer theory has been to critique notions of sexual identity as coherent and stable and for them to be organized and policed as such. Rather, a queer political economy of crisis should also interrogate how “crisis” itself is constituted through heteronormative gender logics and power relations. The chapter explores how neoliberal policy responses to crisis in the United Kingdom are serving to disadvantage lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBT/Q) communities and others who fall outside heterosexist, married monogamy (such as single parents), and how heteronormative imaginaries of “the family” are playing an important role in reproducing the neoliberal economic order.
Cai Wilkinson
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- March 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190644031
- eISBN:
- 9780190644079
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190644031.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Political Economy
The notion of “Mother Russia” has long played a central role in the articulation of Russian statehood. Drawing on Peterson’s “lens of protection,” this chapter interrogates how “Russia as Motherland” ...
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The notion of “Mother Russia” has long played a central role in the articulation of Russian statehood. Drawing on Peterson’s “lens of protection,” this chapter interrogates how “Russia as Motherland” has been utilized to help construct a neopaternalist gender regime and state identity via a narrative of existential threat to Mother Russia from an “Unholy Queer Peril.” This narrative highlights the state’s dogmatic adherence to “traditional” understandings of gender and sexuality, and the chapter explores the impact of the perception of a “queer peril” for practices of statecraft, showing how the hypermasculine state’s “fear of queer” becomes both defining and self-defeating as the state’s logic of protection focuses increasingly on ensuring the “correct” performance of gender by state and citizens alike.Less
The notion of “Mother Russia” has long played a central role in the articulation of Russian statehood. Drawing on Peterson’s “lens of protection,” this chapter interrogates how “Russia as Motherland” has been utilized to help construct a neopaternalist gender regime and state identity via a narrative of existential threat to Mother Russia from an “Unholy Queer Peril.” This narrative highlights the state’s dogmatic adherence to “traditional” understandings of gender and sexuality, and the chapter explores the impact of the perception of a “queer peril” for practices of statecraft, showing how the hypermasculine state’s “fear of queer” becomes both defining and self-defeating as the state’s logic of protection focuses increasingly on ensuring the “correct” performance of gender by state and citizens alike.
