Boundaries of queerness : homonationalism and racial politics in Sweden / Katharina Kehl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kehl, Katharina, author.

Series:

Gender, Sexuality and Global Politics Series

Gender, sexuality and global politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay rights--Sweden.

Gay rights.

Sexual minorities--Sweden.

Sexual minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 169 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2024.

Summary:

This book explores how race, sexuality and gender are employed in political projects of belonging, whilst examining the implications for individual identity formation, in the context of Sweden.

Contents:

Front Cover

Series page

Boundaries of Queerness: Homonationalism and Racial Politics in Sweden

Copyright information

Dedication

Contents

About the Author

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

Aims and questions

Contributions

Situating the book

Outline of the book

2 Homonationalism Revisited: Gay Rights and Queer Complexities

Homonationalism and homonormativity

Homonationalism(s) in European contexts

Rescue narratives, hate crimes and hateful Others

Swedish gender exceptionalism, cultural racism and hegemonic Whiteness

Questioning gay-rights-as-human-rights narratives

Queer critiques and the potential of cautiously deploying universalism

Maintaining complexity through queer logics of analysis

Conclusions

3 Theoretical Explorations I: Boundary Making and Intelligibility

Boundaries, borders and (non-)belonging

The politics of belonging

Boundary making through the spectacle of the Other

Boundary making as/through bordering

Making sense of: boundary making

Subjectivity, grids of intelligibility and normative violence

Belonging and performativity

Constructing subjectivity through intelligibility and recognition

Non-intelligibility and normative violence

Non-intelligibility and the possibility for re-articulation

Making sense of: grids of intelligibility

4 Theoretical Explorations II: Racialization

Racialization conceptualized

Cultural racism, colour-blindness and political racelessness

(Not) being White as (not) being human

The queer potential of racialized difference

Making sense of: racialization

Putting theories to work

5 The How To: Queer and Feminist Methodology

Choosing a field, selecting sites

Approaching the world, generating data

Discursive analysis: theory and practice

Sweden and its hateful Others

analysing Pride Järva

Follow the rainbow flag

analysing SAF campaigns

Othering and intelligibility

analysing Instagram entries

Writing as analytical work

Ethics and positionality

6 Pride Järva: LGBTQ People in Right-Wing Nationalist Discourses

'Right' and 'wrong' kinds of Others

Homonationalism, gender exceptionalism and the Swedish far right

The making of Pride Järva

Swedishness and the boundaries of being gay in public

The problematic language of tolerance

The suburb as a homophobic space

7 A Flag Worth Defending? Rainbows, Pride and the Swedish Armed Forces

It's complicated: sexuality, gender and/in the military

The right to serve openly: LGBTQ and SAF until 2017

Protect and defend: pride campaigns 2017-20

Rainbow under arms: pride campaigns 2021-22

8 Racialized Grids of Intelligibility in Swedish LGBTQ Contexts

Intelligibility, racialization and Swedish gender exceptionalism

Contextualizing the account

Being the victim of the 'hateful Other'

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Dec 2024).

ISBN:

9781529223552

1529223555

9781529223538

1529223539

9781529223545

1529223547

OCLC:

1446073848