Thinking Global Podcast – Patrick Vernon
In the third part of our 2024 UK General Election series, Patrick Vernon speaks about Queer International Relations, the general election, coloniality, intervention, and more.
Political Foreclosure of Queer Liberation: Notes from Lebanon
Through its constructed reductionist violent identitarian Othering of queerness, fikh and wider Islamic knowledge become rigidly ossified.
Interview – Laura Sjoberg
Laura Sjoberg discusses the ways gender hierarchies and queer theory can help us understand international security and IR more broadly.
Interview – Samuel Ritholtz
Samuel Ritholtz discusses queer kinship and the rights of refugee families, the impact of Covid-19 on trans and queer people and the role of queer IR in efforts to decolonise the discipline.
Interview – Andrew Delatolla
Andrew Delatolla discusses Queer IR, the contemporary governance of sexuality in the West, ‘homocolonialism’ and his upcoming edited volume.
Queer(y)ing Brexit: Sexuality and the Shifting Nature of Remainer and Leaver Worldviews
Remain and Leave supporters have utilised discourses of sexuality to rarefy the Remain-Leave binary antagonism in the UK.
LGBTQ+ History Month Interviews
To celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month we asked previous contributors to E-IR whether they think the discipline of IR has made important strides to equally incorporate LGBTQ+ perspectives, ideas and histories.
Interview – Jamie Hagen
Jamie Hagen discusses the importance of LGBTQ+ History Month, the role of queer theory in IR and challenges faced by women and LGBTIQ+ folks in Northern Ireland.
Queering Genocide: How Can Sexuality Be Incorporated Into Analyses Of Genocide?
Understanding more about the sexuality of genocidal violence will only come from an analysis of heterosexuality as a system of logic.
Interview – Dean Cooper-Cunningham
Dean Cooper-Cunningham discusses the benefits of using visual methods in IR, responses to Russian political queerphobia and the visuality of resistance and (in)security.
