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Sexualities in World Politics: How LGBTQ claims shape International Relations (Interventions) by Manuela Lavinas Picq; Markus Thiel; Routledge is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Sexualities in World Politics: How LGBTQ claims shape International Relations (Interventions) about?

As LGBTQ claims acquire global relevance, how do sexual politics impact the study of International Relations? This book argues that LGBTQ perspectives are not only an inherent part of world politics but can also influence IR theory-making. LGBTQ politics have simultaneously gained international prominence in the past decade, achieving significant policy change, and provoked cultural resistance and policy pushbacks. Sexuality politics, more so than gender-based theories, arrived late on the theoretical scene in part because sexuality and gender studies initially highlighted post-structuralist thinking, which was hardly accepted in mainstream political science. This book responds to a call for a more empirically motivated but also critical scholarship on this subject. It offers comparative case-studies from regional, cultural and theoretical peripheries to identify ways of rethinking IR. Further, it aims to add to critical theory, broadening the knowledge about previously unrecognized perspectives in an accessible manner. Being aware of preoccupations with the de-queering, disciplining nature of theory establishment in the social sciences, we critically reconsider IR concepts from a

Who reads Sexualities in World Politics: How LGBTQ claims shape International Relations (Interventions)?

Author

Manuela Lavinas Picq; Markus Thiel; Routledge

Publisher

Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781138820722

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Science, Social_sciences