New intimacies, old desires : law, culture and queer politics in neoliberal times / editors Oishik Sircar, Dipika Jain.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sircar, Oishik, editor.

Jain, Dipika, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queer theory.

Homosexuality.

Sexual minorities--Civil rights.

Sexual minorities.

Sexual minorities--Legal status, laws, etc.

Sexual minorities--Social conditions.

Sexual and Gender Minorities.

Civil Rights.

Political Activism.

Social conditions.

Civil rights.

LGBTQ+ civil rights.

LGBTQ+ people.

Medical Subjects:

Sexual and Gender Minorities.

Homosexuality.

Civil Rights.

Political Activism.

Physical Description:

lxi, 560 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Zubaan, 2017.

Summary:

"In the last fifteen years, great strides have been made in advancing the rights of queer people. In the same period that these victories have been secured by queer movements, we've seen the rise of crony capitalism, violent consequences of the war on terror, the hyper-juridification of politics, the financialization of social movements, and the medicalization of non-heteronormative identities and practices. But how do we critically read the celebratory global proliferation of queer rights in these neoliberal times? New Intimacies, Old Desires, edited by Oishik Sircar and Dipika Jain, collects answers to this question. The book analyzes laws, state policies, and cultures of activism to show how new intimacies between queer sexuality and a neoliberalism that celebrates modernity and the birth of the liberated sexual citizen, are in fact, reproducing the old colonial desire of civilizing the native. By paying particular attention to race, religion, and class, this volume engages in a rigorous, self-reflexive critique of global queer politics and its engagements, confrontations, and negotiations with modernity and its investments in liberalism, legalism, and militarism?all with the objective of queering the ethics of global politics." --publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction : of powerful feelings and facile gestures / Oishik Sircar and Dipika Jain

Homonationalism as assemblage : viral travels, affective sexualities / Jashir K. Puar

Beyond 'hate' : queer metonymies of crime, pathology and anti-violence / Jin Haritaworn

Transnational homo-assemblages : reading 'gender' in counterterrorism discourses / Dianne Otto

Gender governance through law : populist moralism in aspiring democracies/economies / Josephine Ho

Post-colonial queer globalization and international human rights : images of LGBT rights / Aeyal Gross

The men of Blanket Boy's Moon : repugnancy clauses, customary law and migrant labour sex / Neville Hoad

Slim disease and the science of silence : the erasure of same-sex sexuality in 'African AIDS' discourse, 1983-88 / Marc Epprecht

Selfhood and archipelago in Indonesia : a case for human polyversatility / Vanja Hamzic

The remote control of the 'I' we assume wants to come out : sexuality and governance in the Arab world / Sami Zeidan

Queer anti-sociality and disability unbecoming : an ableist relations project? / Fiona Kumari Campbell

In the shadow of the homoglobal : queer cosmopolitanism in Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone / Ani Maitra

Racism, homophobia and compulsory able-bodiedness in the controversy over inter-cousin marriage / Ummni Khan

Polymorphous reproductivity and the critique of futurity : towards a queer legal analytic for fertility law / Stu Marvel

Baring and veiling : sex, politics, and national identity in Canadian legal discourse / Carolina S. Ruiz Austria

Queer, beyond queer? / Nishant Upadhyay and Paulo Ravecca.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contributed articles.

ISBN:

9789384757748

9384757748

OCLC:

989726971