Sexuality and Borders
The claims of states in the Global North to be promoting LGBTQ+ rights around the world can serve to mask those same states’ violations of the rights of LGBTQ+ people from the Global South.
Interview – Laura Sjoberg
Laura Sjoberg discusses the ways gender hierarchies and queer theory can help us understand international security and IR more broadly.
Interview – Rosie Walters
Rosie Walters discusses critical IR, gender and sexuality as part of a series of interviews with the contributing authors of the textbook ‘Foundations of International Relations’.
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.
Asexuality, the Internet, and the Changing Lexicon of Sexuality
By examining the language the asexual community has created as well as how we use this language we can understand different ways of constructing sexual categories.
The Namelessness of Lives: What’s Not in a Name?
While our personal names shape perceptions, the labels used to describe our gendered selves and desires are radically different to different people across time and place.
Interview – Diako Yazdani
Kurdish Iranian filmmaker Diako Yazdani discusses his documentary film Kojin (2019) which tackles problems of homophobia in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
Review – Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics
This handbook challenges the disciplinary fortress of IR and opens up a world of investigatory possibilities by equating post-colonial politics with global politics.
Sex, Tongue, and International Relations
We must tackle the problem of sexual liberation to show how global narratives assert the existence of diverse sexualities but also impose external arrangements.
Review – Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations
The book crafts unique and insightful approaches to security, political economy, nationalism and IR which build upon a wealth of scholarship on race, gender, and culture.
