Queer Theory Law, Culture, Empire [Hardcover]

Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empireuses queer theory to examine the complex interactions of law, culture, and empire. Building on recent work on empire, and taking contextual, socio-legal, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches, it studies how activists and scholars engaged in queer theory projects can unwittingly advance imperial projects and how queer theory can itself show imperial ambitions. The authors  from five continents  delve into examples drawn from Bollywood cinema to Californias 2008 marriage referendum. The chapters view a wide range of texts  from cultural productions to laws and judgments  as regulatory forces requiring scrutiny from outside Western, heterosexual privilege. This innovative collection goes beyond earlier queer legal work, engaging with recent developments, featuring case studies from India, South Africa, the US, Australasia, Eastern Europe, and embracing the frames offered by different disciplinary lenses.

Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire will be of particular interest to students and researchers in the fields of socio-legal studies, comparative law, law and gender/sexuality, and law and culture.

Chapter 1. Introduction, Robert Leckey and Kim Brooks  Part 1: Constitution  Chapter 2. Queer Theory, Neoliberalism and Urban Governance, Jon Binnie  Chapter 3. Regulating Perversion: The Role of Tolerance in De-Radicalizing the Rights Claims of Sexual Subalterns, Ratna Kapur  Part 2:Representation  Chapter 4. Cinema of Queer Desires: Bombay Cinema and Emergent Sexualities, Shohini Ghosh  Chapter 5. Post-Apartheid Fraternity, Post-Apartheid Democracy, Post-Apartheid Sexuality: Queer Reflections on Jane Alexanders 'Butcher Boys', Jaco Barnard-Naud?  ClÓI