By Robert Leckey, Kim Brooks
Queer conception: legislation, tradition, Empire makes use of queer thought to envision the complicated interactions of legislation, tradition, and empire. construction on fresh paintings on empire, and taking contextual, socio-legal, comparative, and interdisciplinary methods, it reports how activists and students engaged in queer concept initiatives can unwittingly increase imperial tasks and the way queer idea can itself convey imperial objectives. The authors – from 5 continents – delve into examples drawn from Bollywood cinema to California’s 2008 marriage referendum. The chapters view quite a lot of texts – from cultural productions to legislation and judgments – as regulatory forces requiring scrutiny from open air Western, heterosexual privilege. This cutting edge assortment is going past past queer felony paintings, attractive with fresh advancements, that includes case stories from India, South Africa, the U.S., Australasia, jap Europe, and embracing the frames provided by way of varied disciplinary lenses.
Queer idea: legislations, tradition, Empire will be of specific curiosity to scholars and researchers within the fields of socio-legal reports, comparative legislation, legislation and gender/sexuality, and legislation and culture.
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