ABSTRACT

This edited volume engages with a range of geographical, political and cultural contexts to intervene in ongoing scholarly discussions on the intersection of nationalism with gender, sexuality and race.

The book maps and analyses the racially and sexually normativising power of homonationalist, femonationalist and ablenationalist dynamics and structures, three strands of research that have thus far remained separate. Scholars and practitioners from different geopolitical and academic contexts highlight research on the complexities of women’s, LGBTQ+ communities’ and dis/abled individuals’ engagements with and subsumption within nationalist projects. Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism: Critical Pedagogies Contextualised offers added value for those researching and teaching on topics related to gender, sexuality, disability, (post)coloniality and nationalism and includes new pedagogical strategies for addressing such timely global phenomena.

This dynamic interdisciplinary volume is ideal for those teaching gender studies, and for students and scholars in gender studies, international relations and sexuality studies.

part I|54 pages

Homonationalism

chapter 1|17 pages

Homonationalism as a Site of Contestation and Transformation

On Queer Subjectivities and Homotransnationalism across Sinophone Societies

chapter 2|18 pages

Through a Decolonial Lens

Homonationalism in South Africa and the Cape Town Gay Pride Parade

chapter 3|17 pages

Re-thinking Articulations of Nation and Gender through Asylum Policies

Discourses and Representations of Women Seeking Asylum in Spain

part II|40 pages

Femonationalism

chapter 4|19 pages

Exploring Femonationalist Convergences

The French Case of the Muslim Face-veil Ban 1

chapter 5|19 pages

Teaching against Femonationalism

The Case of the Ban on Female Genital Mutilation in the United States and Switzerland

part III|51 pages

Ablenationalism

chapter 6|13 pages

Lovingly Constructed Media Nation-States

The Triple Cripples Continue the Legacy of Black Women

chapter 7|20 pages

Crippling (Homo)nationalism

Disability Rights and the Allure of the Neoliberal Nation-state

chapter 8|16 pages

Teaching the Non-compliant

Ablenationalism and the Chronically Ill Student in the Neoliberal Academe

part IV|56 pages

Critical Pedagogies Contextualised

chapter 9|18 pages

Affect and Critical Pedagogies

How to Teach against Homo/Nationalism in the Midst of Current Nationalist Sentiment in Catalonia

chapter 10|18 pages

Decolonising Gender and Nationalism through Critical Pedagogies

A Case Study from Mexico

chapter 11|18 pages

Discomforting Pedagogies

The Politics of Teaching Sexual Diversity Education