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450M QUEER GLOBALIZATION: RACE, SEX & NATION (4 hrs. or 1 unit) Professor Martin
Manalansan What does queer
theory offer towards a critical understanding of globalization and
transnationalism? How does
globalization shape contemporary queer scholarship?
Globalization has been popularly constructed in terms of homo-genization
and the demise of the nation. This
course interrogates these premises by centering the idea of queer sexualities,
genders, and cultures through the prisms of race, class, and nation in a global
context. This course examines ideas
of citizenship, urban space, tourism and travel, intimacy and kinship, and
public culture. The course proposes
an interdisciplinary framework that encompasses cultural anthropology, critical
theory, cultural geography, cultural studies, ethnic studies, political economy,
and history. Selected
Required Books: Bell, David and
Jon Binnie. 2000. The Sexual Citizen: Queer Politics and Beyond.
London: Polity Press. Patton, Cindy and
Benigno Sanchez-Eppler. 2000. Queer Diasporas.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Povinelli,
Elizabeth and George Chauncey. 1999. Thinking Sex Transnationally.
Special issue of GLQ.
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