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Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts regierte Europa über ca. 85% des globalen Territoriums in Form von Kolonien, Protektoraten und Dependancen. Die koloniale Expansion war ein exorbitanter und gewalttätiger Prozess, der durch Ausbeutung, Versklavung und Diebstahl charakterisiert war. Es stellt sich deswegen die Frage, warum sich innerhalb der westlichen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen lange Zeit nur eine kleine Minderheit diesem Ereignis analytisch angenommen hat. Keine große intellektuelle Anstrengung ist vonnöten, um zu verstehen, dass eine solch massive territoriale Expansion, die zum Teil über Jahrhunderte gewaltvoll erhalten wurde, erstens nicht nur durch militärische Präsenz möglich war, zweitens nicht mit der bloßen formalen Unabhängigkeit der kolonisierten Staaten zu einem Ende kommen konnte und schließlich kaum nur Spuren in den kolonisierten Ländern hinterlassen haben kann, sondern auch den globalen Norden prägten. Postkoloniale Studien nähern sich dieser Komplexität und irritieren dabei die Vorstellung einer zwangsläufigen, geradezu naturwüchsigen, kolonialen Beherrschung durch Europa. Sie werfen einen Blick auf die Mannigfaltigkeit kolonialer Interventionen und deren Wirkmächtigkeit bis in die heutigen Tage (etwa Randeria/Eckert 2009).

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Series Editor's Preface "X" -- Foreword by Lisa Duggan -- Introduction Hegemony and Heteronormativity: Revisiting 'The Political' in Queer Politics -- 1 Revisiting Contingency, Hegemony and Universality -- 2 From the 'Heterosexual Matrix' to a 'Heteronormative Hegemony': Initiating a Dialogue between Judith Butler and Antonio Gramsci about Queer Theory and Politics -- 3 Tender Tensions - Antagonistic Struggles - Becoming-Bird: Queer Political Interventions into Neoliberal Hegemony -- 4 Normative Dilemmas and the Hegemony of Counter-Hegemony -- 5 How Sam Became a Father, Became a Citizen: Scripts of Neoliberal Inclusion of Disability -- 6 Signifying Theory_Politics/Queer? -- 7 The Pleasures of Compliance: Domination and Compromise Within BDSM Practice -- Index.

This volume presents the critical perspectives of feminists, critical race theorists, and queer and postcolonial theorists who question the adoption of European norms in the postcolonial world and whether such norms are enabling for disenfranchised communities or if they simply reinforce relations of domination and exploitation. It examines how postcolonial interventions alter the study of politics and society both in the postcolony and in Euro-America, as well as of the power relations between them. Challenging conventional understandings of international politics, this volume pushes the boundaries of the social sciences by engaging with alternative critical approaches and innovatively and provocatively addressing previously disregarded aspects of international politics. The fourteen contributions in this volume focus on the silencing and exclusion of vulnerable groups from claims of freedom, equality and rights, while highlighting postcolonial-queer-feminist struggles for transnational justice, radical democracy and decolonization, drawing on in-depth empirically-informed analyses of processes and struggles in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America. They address political and social topics including global governance and development politics; neo-colonialism, international aid and empire; resistance, decolonization and the Arab Spring; civil society and social movement struggles; international law, democratization and subalternity; body politics and green imperialism. By drawing on other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, this book both enriches and expands the discipline of political science and international relations. Primary readership for this volume will be academics and students concerned with globalization studies, postcolonial theory, gender studies, and international relations, as well as political activists and policy-makers concerned with social and transnational justice, human rights, democracy, gender justice and women's rights

This volume presents the critical perspectives of feminists, critical race theorists, and queer and postcolonial theorists who question the adoption of European norms in the postcolonial world and whether such norms are enabling for disenfranchised communities or if they simply reinforce relations of domination and exploitation. It examines how postcolonial interventions alter the study of politics and society both in the postcolony and in Euro-America, as well as of the power relations between them. Challenging conventional understandings of international politics, this volume pushes the boundaries of the social sciences by engaging with alternative critical approaches and innovatively and provocatively addressing previously disregarded aspects of international politics. The fourteen contributions in this volume focus on the silencing and exclusion of vulnerable groups from claims of freedom, equality and rights, while highlighting postcolonial-queer-feminist struggles for transnational justice, radical democracy and decolonization, drawing on in-depth empirically-informed analyses of processes and struggles in Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America. They address political and social topics including global governance and development politics; neo-colonialism, international aid and empire; resistance, decolonization and the Arab Spring; civil society and social movement struggles; international law, democratization and subalternity; body politics and green imperialism. By drawing on other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, this book both enriches and expands the discipline of political science and international relations. Primary readership for this volume will be academics and students concerned with globalization studies, postcolonial theory, gender studies, and international relations, as well as political activists and policy-makers concerned with social and transnational justice, human rights, democracy, gender justice and women's rights.

"This book reflects on 'the political' in queer theory and politics by revisiting two of its key categories: hegemony and heteronormativity. It explores the specific insights offered by these categories and the ways in which they augment the analysis of power and domination from a queer perspective, whilst also examining the possibilities for political analysis and strategy-building provided by theories of hegemony and heteronormativity. Moreover, in addressing these issues the book strives to rethink the understanding of the term 'queer', so as to avoid narrowing queer politics to a critique of normative heterosexuality and the rigid gender binary. By looking at the interplay between hegemony and heteronormativity, this ground-breaking volume presents new possibilities of reconceptualizing 'the political' from a queer perspective. Investigating the effects of queer politics not only on subjectivities and intimate personal relations, but also on institutions, socio-cultural processes and global politics, this book will be of interest to those working in the fields of critical theory, gender and sexuality, queer theory, postcolonial studies, and feminist political theory."--Provided by publisher.