Sexuality and the political - Einzelansicht

In a political moment in which we are witnessing the intensification of sexual and gendered nationalisms across the globe, a situation exemplified and further augmented by the global circulation of SARS-CoV-2 and the intensification of border protections that rely on the household, the heteronormative nuclear family and gendered divisions of labor to safeguard the national body from contagion, in this seminar we will ask what role sexuality plays in various sociopolitical and historical contexts, ranging from border regimes across the globe to our current pandemic circumstances. We will scrutinize sexuality from a Cultural Studies-informed perspective and read canonic literature from Sexuality Studies and Queer Theory to make sense of the crucial role sexuality plays in past and present politics.