International Feminist Journal of Politics, Guest editors: Jin Haritaworn, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Adi Kuntsman, The University of Manchester, Silvia Posocco, Birkbeck, University of London

Deadline: 01.08.2012, CfP-PDF

Sexual citizenship is usually examined though the lens of inclusion into rights, legal and political subjecthood through sexuality. What has received less scholarly attention is the problem of inclusion itself, and its costs. Instead of focusing on the inclusion and incorporation of sexual minorities as a certain pathway to progressive politics, this special issue explores inclusions that are murderous: it aspires to decouple the link between inclusion, queer politics and justice. The special issue seeks to critically examine parameters of sexual citizenship that accompany or work hand in hand with violent regimes of coloniality, „wars on terror“, „development“ and structural adjustment, criminalisation, pathologisation, border enforcement and neoliberalism. What new techniques of governance … read more (PDF)