Stella / Taylor / Reynolds Sexuality, Citizenship and Belonging

Trans-National and Intersectional Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-61853-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Critical Diversities

This collection seeks to encourage new ways of thinking about the connections and tensions between sexual politics, citizenship and belonging by bringing together a diverse range of critical interventions within sexuality and gender studies. The book is organised around three interlinked thematic areas, focusing on sexual citizenship, nationalism and international borders (Section 1); sexuality and "race" (Section 2); and sexuality and religion (Section 3). In revisiting notions of sexual citizenship and belonging, contributors engage with topical debates about "sexual nationalism," or the construction of western/European nations as exceptional in terms of attitudes to sexual and gender equality vis-à-vis an uncivilised, racialized "Other."

The collection explores macro-level perspectives by attending to the broader geopolitical and socio-legal structures within which competing claims to citizenship and belonging are played out; at the same time, micro-level perspectives are utilised to explore the interplay between sexuality and "race," nation, ethnicity and religious identities, both in individuals’ lived experiences and in activism and forms of collective belonging. Geographically, the collection has a prevalently European focus, yet contributions explore a range of trans-national spatial dimensions that exceed the boundaries of "Europe" and of European nation-states. They consider, for example, links between former European imperial powers and their former colonies; the construction of a European "core" and its "peripheries" in discourses on sexual and reproductive rights; and forms of belonging shaped by migration from within and outside "fortress Europe."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stella, Francesca

Taylor, Yvette

Reynolds, Tracey

Rogers, Antoine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Francesca Stella, Yvette Taylor, Tracey Reynolds and Antoine Rogers Section 1: Sexual Nationalisms and the Boundaries of Sexual Citizenship 1. Sexual Citizenship, Nationalism and Biopolitics in Putin’s Russia Francesca Stella and Nadya Nartova 2. Sexuality, Citizenship and Migration: The Irish Diaspora in London Roísín Ryan-Flood 3. Narrativizing One’s Sexuality/Gender: Neoliberal Humanitarianism and the Right of Asylum Calogero Giametta 4. The New Transnational Politics of LGBT Human Rights in the Commonwealth: What Can UK NGOs Learn from the Global South? Matthew Waites Section 2: Racialised Subjects and Feminist/Queer Solidarities 5. Black Mammy and Company: Exploring Constructions of Black Womanhood in Britain Tracey Reynolds 6. Sexuality, "Race" and Space, or What Does a Genuine Lesbian Look Like? Nina Held 7. Activism Beyond Identities: Building Shared Alliances Against Homophobia and Racism in Palermo Maria Livia Alga 8. ‘Time After Time’: Gay Conditionality, Colonial Temporality, and Azadi Tara Atluri Section 3: Sexuality, Religion and Belonging 9. Creating Citizens, Constructing Religion, Configuring Gender: Intersectional Sites, Scripts and Sticking Points Yvette Taylor and Ria Snowdon 10. Changing Churches: Sexuality, Difference, Power Savitri Hensman 11. Counter-Normative Identities: Religious Young People Subverting Sexual Norms Sarah-Jane Page 12. Angels and the Dragon King’s Daughter: Gender, Sexuality in Western Buddhist New Religious Movements Sally Munt and Sharon Smith

Über Autor(innen)

Francesca Stella is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow.

Yvette Taylor is Professor in Social and Policy Studies and Head of the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University.

Tracey Reynolds is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Greenwich.

Antoine Rogers is a Principal Lecturer in Sociology at London South Bank University.