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Interrogating Sexualities and Intimacies: The Liberatory and Oppressive Politics of the 21st Century.
Interrogating Sexualities and Intimacies: The Liberatory and Oppressive Politics of the 21st Century.
Abstract Submissions Closed
Tuesday, 23 February 2021: 17:45-19:15
Location:
RC32 Women, Gender and Society (host committee)
Language: Spanish and English
Session Type: Oral
The 21st century has been an era of paradigmatic yet paradoxical shifts: on the one hand the global economy has intensified; on the other, material inequalities have become exacerbated. Whereas we have witnessed the escalation of progressive movements, transformative politics and transnational justice networks, the world has also grappled with growing conservatism, the power of reactionary politics and the violence of dominant nationalism(s). Against this background, this session invites nuanced intersectional analyses that interrogate the myriad ways in which intimacies, sexual discourses, identities, practices, and subjectivities are deeply embedded and implicated in the hegemonies and counter-hegemonies of the 21st century, both within and across national context. Papers may include, but are not limited to exploring how material inequalities/insecurities shape sexual subjectivity and intimacies and vice versa; gendered and sexualized dimensions of precarity and climate change; the impact of contemporary democratic and anti-democratic movements on the sexual rights’ activism around the world, queer and LGBTQI organizing in the 21st century; queer mobility; sexuality and the politics of migration; gendered and sexual violence etc.
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