ABSTRACT
This introduction explores the forms of queer, feminist and postcolonial theory and politics, which are mutually productive, that contributes to more just and more desirable economies. This book highlights how postcolonial-queer-feminist struggles for economic and sexual justice. It highlights in different ways that transgressive desires and radical sexualities need not be transformative, but can feed into fantasies that reproduce inequalities - be they neo-colonial, orientalist, racist, classist or elitist. It also explores intersections of sexual and economic justice, the interplay and transformative potential of political struggles for sexual and for economic justice within contemporary neoliberal capitalisms. The book similarly insists on the relevance of class privileges in queer communities and academic research in a British context. It also explores the limiting factors, potentials and future perspectives of economic transformations, driven by the desire to create space for envisioning new forms of doing economy. Finally, an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book is presented.
