Queering the Transnational: Notes on an Emerging Politics of Law and Sexuality

2021 ◽  
pp. 726-746
Author(s):  
Dipika Jain
Keyword(s):  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Rights ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
Transnational Law ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
International Legal System

This chapter argues that transnational law holds significant potential as a methodological lens to study the intersection of gender, sexuality, and law. The discourse on gender and sexual rights has been cultivated by transnational dialogue and deliberation, and serves as an apt site to study the regulation of gender and sexuality. “Law and sexuality” as an academic discipline is meaningful when explored through the lens of transnational law and legal scholarship. Law schools ought to incorporate the dynamic interaction between domestic decision-making, foreign jurisprudence, and the international legal system and critical perspectives on each into their curricula. The first section of this chapter provides a primer to the study of law and sexuality through feminist and queer perspectives to critically engage with the legal regulation of gender identity and sexuality. Following this, the second section discusses the relevance of bringing transnational perspectives to the legal curriculum, particularly in the context of gender and sexuality studies.

Novel Relations

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia Mireles Christoff
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Object Relations ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Victorian Novels ◽  
Victorian Fiction ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

This book engages twentieth-century post-Freudian British psychoanalysis in an unprecedented way: as literary theory. Placing the writing of figures like D. W. Winnicott, W. R. Bion, Michael and Enid Balint, Joan Riviere, Paula Heimann, and Betty Joseph in conversation with canonical Victorian fiction, the book reveals just how much object relations can teach us about how and why we read. These thinkers illustrate the ever-shifting impact our relations with others have on the psyche, and help us see how literary figures—characters, narrators, authors, and other readers—shape and structure us too. In the book, novels are charged relational fields. Closely reading novels by George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, the book shows that traditional understandings of Victorian fiction change when we fully recognize the object relations of reading. It is not by chance that British psychoanalysis illuminates underappreciated aspects of Victorian fiction so vibrantly: Victorian novels shaped modern psychoanalytic theories of psyche and relationality—including the eclipsing of empire and race in the construction of subject. Relational reading opens up both Victorian fiction and psychoanalysis to wider political and postcolonial dimensions, while prompting a closer engagement with work in such areas as critical race theory and gender and sexuality studies. The book describes the impact of literary form on readers and on twentieth- and twenty-first-century theories of the subject.

Characteristics of Legislation on Legal Relations of Information Dissemination

2020 ◽  
pp. 18-23
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
Legal Norms

Information and telecommunication technologies have radically changed all social relations. This required corresponding changes in the information legislation. System of legal norms regulating information relations has been updated and increased. However, this changes did not improve legal regulation of information relations. Scientists emphasize that imperfection of information legislation depends on inadequacy of legal norms. Legal scholarship discover different defects of legal norms: antilogy, deficiency of law, inadequacy in logic, duplications and declarativity of norms. Legislation on information dissemination is also characterized by these defects. They entailed problems of application by the courts. Scientific immaturity of legal regulation of information relations is noted. The necessity for creating special legal act, which will regulate relations on information dissemination, is justified.

scholarly journals Turkey’s queer times: an introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Cenk Özbay ◽  
Kerem Öktem
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sexual Rights ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Queer Culture ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
And Gender

Today Turkey is one of the few Muslim-majority countries in which same-sex sexual acts, counternormative sexual identities, and expressions of gender nonconformism are not illegal, yet are heavily constrained and controlled by state institutions, police forces, and public prosecutors. For more than a decade Turkey has been experiencing a “queer turn”—an unprecedented push in the visibility and empowerment of queerness, the proliferation of sexual rights organizations and forms of sociabilities, and the dissemination of elements of queer culture—that has engendered both scholarly and public attention for sexual dissidents and gender non-conforming individuals and their lifeworlds, while it has also created new spaces and venues for their self-organization and mobilization. At the point of knowledge production and writing, this visibility and the possible avenues of empowerment that it might provide have been in jeopardy: not only do they appear far from challenging the dominant norms of the body, gender, and sexuality, but queerness, in all its dimensions, has become a preferred target for Islamist politics, conservative revanchism, and populist politicians.

The SLS Centenary Lecture: Punching our weight? Legal scholarship and public understanding

Legal Studies ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Twining
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
General Culture

Law has the potential to be one of the humanistic disciplines that is an integral part of general culture. But it is not usually perceived in that way by non-lawyers. As the Society of Legal Scholars celebrates its Centenary, its members are under pressure to broaden the audiences of legal scholarship. Setting this expectation in the context of the movement to encourage all academic disciplines to place greater emphasis on ‘public understanding’ and ‘public engagement’, this lecture considers the what, why and how of confronting this challenge, recognises some obstacles and constraints, and suggests how the Society, law schools and law publishers might contribute to this enterprise.

scholarly journals Introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-327
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Pierce ◽  
María Amelia Viteri ◽  
Diego Falconí Trávez ◽  
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz ◽  
Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Working Group ◽  
American Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
Hemispheric American Studies

Abstract This special issue questions translation and its politics of (in)visibilizing certain bodies and geographies, and sheds light on queer and cuir histories that have confronted the imperial gaze, or that remain untranslatable. Part of a larger scholarly and activist project of the Feminist and Cuir/Queer Américas Working Group, the special issue situates the relationships across linguistic and cultural differences as central to a hemispheric queer/cuir dialogue. We have assembled contributions with activists, scholars, and artists working through queer and cuir studies, gender and sexuality studies, intersectional feminisms, decolonial approaches, migration studies, and hemispheric American studies. Published across three journals, GLQ in the United States, Periódicus in Brazil, and El lugar sin límites in Argentina, this special issue homes in on the production, circulation, and transformation of knowledge, and on how knowledge production relates to cultural, disciplinary, or market-based logics.

scholarly journals Sexual rights, Religion and Post-Neoliberalism in Argentina (2003–2015)

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-101
Author(s):  
Daniel Jones ◽  
Lucía Ariza ◽  
Mario Pecheny
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Rights ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Pope Francis ◽  
Religious Actors

This paper examines the relation between sexual politics and post-neoliberalism/populism in Kirchners’ Argentina between 2003 and 2015, focusing on the role of religious actors. Despite the opposition of religious leaders, including that of Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio (now Pope Francis), Argentina advanced in the recognition of gender and sexual rights during the Kirchners’ administrations. Conflicts around gender and sexuality, particularly around same-sex marriage, explain some of the tensions between political and religious actors in the period. The focus of this paper on sexual politics shows that the Kirchners’ administrations, unlike other traditional populist or post-neoliberal administrations, had a strong liberal component, which explains the tensions between that populist government and conservative religious actors.

The international legal framework for cooperation between States on countering illicit trafficking in medical products

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Zimina
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Medical Products ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Illicit Trafficking

The monograph is devoted to the study of the international foundations of cooperation between states in the field of combating illicit trafficking in medical products (NOM), as well as to the study of the functioning of modern international legal mechanisms of such interaction. The author's proposals for improving the legal regulation in the field of countering the NOM in the process of implementing international legal norms regulating these legal relations into the legislation of the Russian Federation and foreign states are presented. For a wide range of readers interested in countering illegal trafficking of goods, works and services. It will be useful for students, postgraduates and teachers of law schools.

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