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.
Nicola J. Smith
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780197530276
- eISBN:
- 9780197530306
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197530276.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Political Economy
What is the relationship between capitalism and sexuality, and why are they so often assumed to be antithetical? The book interrogates these questions by bringing together insights from two fields ...
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What is the relationship between capitalism and sexuality, and why are they so often assumed to be antithetical? The book interrogates these questions by bringing together insights from two fields that have often overlooked each other, international political economy and queer theory. It develops a queer political economy lens to understand how the history of capitalism has been intimately entangled with the history of sexuality. Yet central to this story has been the construction of sexuality as something that needs to be protected from capitalism’s adulterating influence at all costs. As the author examines, this is no accident since capitalism profits greatly from the illusion that economic and sexual relations exist in distinct realms that can and must be kept apart. Focusing on the specific site of sex work in Britain, the volume draws on wide-ranging archival research to chart a genealogy of capitalist development from the Middle Ages to the present day. It shows that capitalism has long been organized around the extraction of unpaid sexual labor that, in turn, has been made possible by the creation and maintenance of a dualism between sex and work. By exposing the historical mechanisms through which the economy/sexuality dichotomy has been constituted, the book opens up new space for critical inquiry into the intersections between sex, work, and economic and sexual injustice.Less
What is the relationship between capitalism and sexuality, and why are they so often assumed to be antithetical? The book interrogates these questions by bringing together insights from two fields that have often overlooked each other, international political economy and queer theory. It develops a queer political economy lens to understand how the history of capitalism has been intimately entangled with the history of sexuality. Yet central to this story has been the construction of sexuality as something that needs to be protected from capitalism’s adulterating influence at all costs. As the author examines, this is no accident since capitalism profits greatly from the illusion that economic and sexual relations exist in distinct realms that can and must be kept apart. Focusing on the specific site of sex work in Britain, the volume draws on wide-ranging archival research to chart a genealogy of capitalist development from the Middle Ages to the present day. It shows that capitalism has long been organized around the extraction of unpaid sexual labor that, in turn, has been made possible by the creation and maintenance of a dualism between sex and work. By exposing the historical mechanisms through which the economy/sexuality dichotomy has been constituted, the book opens up new space for critical inquiry into the intersections between sex, work, and economic and sexual injustice.
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.
Rahul Rao
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- April 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190865511
- eISBN:
- 9780190865559
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190865511.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Political Theory
Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament attracted global attention for the draconian nature of its provisions and for the involvement of US anti-gay ...
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Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament attracted global attention for the draconian nature of its provisions and for the involvement of US anti-gay evangelical Christians who were reported to have lobbied for its passage. This book makes three contributions to our understanding of these developments. First, it offers an account of the international relations that anticipated and followed the Anti Homosexuality Act. Journeying through encounters between the kingdom of Buganda and British colonialism, between the Ugandan state and its international donors, and between LGBTI activists in the global South and North, the book illuminates the frictional collaborations across geopolitical divides that produce and contest contemporary queerphobias. Second, it explores the dialectic produced by two opposed statements that mark queer postcolonial disagreements—‘homosexuality is Western’ and ‘homophobia is Western’. Arguing that both statements are plausible but evasive, the book demonstrates how their opposition produces distinctive forms of temporal politics in the queer postcolony. In this register, the book explores the afterlives of colonialism and the queer futures enabled by it in Uganda, India, and Britain. Third, in shifting the scenes of encounter that it investigates from one chapter to the next, the book reveals how queerness mutates in different configurations of power to become a metonym for other categories such as nationality, religiosity, race, class, and caste. It argues that these mutations reveal the grammars forged in the originary violence of the state and social institutions in which queer difference struggles to find place.Less
Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament attracted global attention for the draconian nature of its provisions and for the involvement of US anti-gay evangelical Christians who were reported to have lobbied for its passage. This book makes three contributions to our understanding of these developments. First, it offers an account of the international relations that anticipated and followed the Anti Homosexuality Act. Journeying through encounters between the kingdom of Buganda and British colonialism, between the Ugandan state and its international donors, and between LGBTI activists in the global South and North, the book illuminates the frictional collaborations across geopolitical divides that produce and contest contemporary queerphobias. Second, it explores the dialectic produced by two opposed statements that mark queer postcolonial disagreements—‘homosexuality is Western’ and ‘homophobia is Western’. Arguing that both statements are plausible but evasive, the book demonstrates how their opposition produces distinctive forms of temporal politics in the queer postcolony. In this register, the book explores the afterlives of colonialism and the queer futures enabled by it in Uganda, India, and Britain. Third, in shifting the scenes of encounter that it investigates from one chapter to the next, the book reveals how queerness mutates in different configurations of power to become a metonym for other categories such as nationality, religiosity, race, class, and caste. It argues that these mutations reveal the grammars forged in the originary violence of the state and social institutions in which queer difference struggles to find place.
Nicola J. Smith
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780197530276
- eISBN:
- 9780197530306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197530276.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Political Economy
This chapter draws together the core themes discussed throughout the book, and points to avenues for future research along with potential ways forward for activism and policy. The author considers ...
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This chapter draws together the core themes discussed throughout the book, and points to avenues for future research along with potential ways forward for activism and policy. The author considers how queer, feminist, and leftist agendas might align forces with the sex workers’ movement in order to contest the appropriation and devaluation of feminized labor under capitalism. Emphasizing the need for critiques of capitalism to center rather than marginalize the question of sexuality going forward, the chapter calls for the left to pursue a plurality of strategies and coalitions if it is successfully to challenge neoliberal capitalism, including by reclaiming the commons.Less
This chapter draws together the core themes discussed throughout the book, and points to avenues for future research along with potential ways forward for activism and policy. The author considers how queer, feminist, and leftist agendas might align forces with the sex workers’ movement in order to contest the appropriation and devaluation of feminized labor under capitalism. Emphasizing the need for critiques of capitalism to center rather than marginalize the question of sexuality going forward, the chapter calls for the left to pursue a plurality of strategies and coalitions if it is successfully to challenge neoliberal capitalism, including by reclaiming the commons.
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’.
Nicola J. Smith
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780197530276
- eISBN:
- 9780197530306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197530276.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Political Economy
This chapter sets out the context and rationale for the book, arguing that the study of capitalism needs to engage more closely with the study of sexuality, and vice versa. In order to advance this ...
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This chapter sets out the context and rationale for the book, arguing that the study of capitalism needs to engage more closely with the study of sexuality, and vice versa. In order to advance this agenda, the chapter calls for international political economy and queer theory to combine their contributions through development of the field of queer political economy. The author then outlines the book’s key methodological moves and, in particular, its focus on sex work together with its genealogical approach to discourse analysis. As well as describing and justifying what the book is and does, the chapter also reflects on the book’s limitations, including the choice to consider the specific case of Britain rather than offering a general history of capitalism.Less
This chapter sets out the context and rationale for the book, arguing that the study of capitalism needs to engage more closely with the study of sexuality, and vice versa. In order to advance this agenda, the chapter calls for international political economy and queer theory to combine their contributions through development of the field of queer political economy. The author then outlines the book’s key methodological moves and, in particular, its focus on sex work together with its genealogical approach to discourse analysis. As well as describing and justifying what the book is and does, the chapter also reflects on the book’s limitations, including the choice to consider the specific case of Britain rather than offering a general history of capitalism.
Nicola J. Smith
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780197530276
- eISBN:
- 9780197530306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197530276.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Political Economy
This chapter outlines the scholarly debate and theoretical architecture that underpin the rest of the book. In recent years, queer theory has come under fire for being outdated, even redundant, on ...
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This chapter outlines the scholarly debate and theoretical architecture that underpin the rest of the book. In recent years, queer theory has come under fire for being outdated, even redundant, on the grounds that its interest in the fluidity of identity comes at the expense of political economic analysis. Contesting such claims, the chapter contends that queer theory is well suited to the study of global capitalism when pursued as a project that is both feminist and historical in approach. To this end, the author brings together the insights of Michel Foucault and Silvia Federici to develop a new framework for analyzing the intersections and contradictions between capitalism and sexuality. The chapter then explicates this framework through discussion of sex work as a particularly interesting and important site for applying the tools of queer political economy.Less
This chapter outlines the scholarly debate and theoretical architecture that underpin the rest of the book. In recent years, queer theory has come under fire for being outdated, even redundant, on the grounds that its interest in the fluidity of identity comes at the expense of political economic analysis. Contesting such claims, the chapter contends that queer theory is well suited to the study of global capitalism when pursued as a project that is both feminist and historical in approach. To this end, the author brings together the insights of Michel Foucault and Silvia Federici to develop a new framework for analyzing the intersections and contradictions between capitalism and sexuality. The chapter then explicates this framework through discussion of sex work as a particularly interesting and important site for applying the tools of queer political economy.
Nicola J. Smith
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780197530276
- eISBN:
- 9780197530306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197530276.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Political Economy
This chapter explores how sex work is constructed as a mode of deviant heterosexuality in the twenty-first century. It contends that ongoing moral panics over commercial sex do important political ...
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This chapter explores how sex work is constructed as a mode of deviant heterosexuality in the twenty-first century. It contends that ongoing moral panics over commercial sex do important political work for capitalism by distracting attention from the close entanglements between heteronormativity and economic injustice. The chapter begins by investigating the connections between the criminalization of sex work and the austerity agenda that has defined Britain’s political economy since 2010. It then interrogates the linkages between the politics of sex work and the politics of anti-immigration, arguing that neoliberalism has itself been made thinkable through anti-trafficking discourses that restrict labor freedoms in the name of eradicating unfree labor.Less
This chapter explores how sex work is constructed as a mode of deviant heterosexuality in the twenty-first century. It contends that ongoing moral panics over commercial sex do important political work for capitalism by distracting attention from the close entanglements between heteronormativity and economic injustice. The chapter begins by investigating the connections between the criminalization of sex work and the austerity agenda that has defined Britain’s political economy since 2010. It then interrogates the linkages between the politics of sex work and the politics of anti-immigration, arguing that neoliberalism has itself been made thinkable through anti-trafficking discourses that restrict labor freedoms in the name of eradicating unfree labor.
Rahul Rao
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- April 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190865511
- eISBN:
- 9780190865559
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190865511.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics, Political Theory
The chapter identifies the book’s central question: how does time matter in the queer postcolony? More specifically, how do the afterlives of British colonialism in Uganda, India, and Britain shape ...
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The chapter identifies the book’s central question: how does time matter in the queer postcolony? More specifically, how do the afterlives of British colonialism in Uganda, India, and Britain shape contemporary queer politics in each of these locations? It outlines the three principal contributions of the book. First, the book provides an account of the global frictions surrounding Uganda’s Anti Homosexuality Act, demonstrating the ways in which the crisis precipitated by this legislation was generative of new forms of global governmentality around LGBT rights. Second, revitalising thinking around intersectionality, the book demonstrates how queerness functions as a metonym for a range of other identities in different contexts. Third, the book intervenes in a hitherto US-centric queer theoretical literature on temporality to demonstrate how memory and futurity present distinctive battlegrounds for queer postcolonial politics. Finally, the chapter discusses key methodological orientations and problems.Less
The chapter identifies the book’s central question: how does time matter in the queer postcolony? More specifically, how do the afterlives of British colonialism in Uganda, India, and Britain shape contemporary queer politics in each of these locations? It outlines the three principal contributions of the book. First, the book provides an account of the global frictions surrounding Uganda’s Anti Homosexuality Act, demonstrating the ways in which the crisis precipitated by this legislation was generative of new forms of global governmentality around LGBT rights. Second, revitalising thinking around intersectionality, the book demonstrates how queerness functions as a metonym for a range of other identities in different contexts. Third, the book intervenes in a hitherto US-centric queer theoretical literature on temporality to demonstrate how memory and futurity present distinctive battlegrounds for queer postcolonial politics. Finally, the chapter discusses key methodological orientations and problems.
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.
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.
