Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality

This open access book seeks to understand how politics is being made in a pluralistic sense, and explores how these political struggles are challenging and transforming gender, sexuality, and colonial norms. As researchers located in Sweden, a nation often cited as one of the most gender-equal and LGBTQ-tolerant nations, the contributions investigate political processes, decolonial struggles, and events beyond, nearby, and in between organizations, states, and national territories. The collection represents a variety of disciplines, and different theoretical conceptualizations of politics, feminist theory, and postcolonial and queer studies. Students and researchers with an interest of queer studies, gender studies, critical whiteness studies, and civil society studies will find this book an invaluable resource.

Draws on forms of political engagement that deviate from the conventional and the institutionalized Focuses on the emergent, in between places and states of disbelonging that meaningfully challenge the established hegemonic order Imagines new forms of political life that especially take their bearings from those who have been marginalized and silenced

Autorentext
Erika Alm, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Linda Berg, Associate Professor, Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS), Umeå University, Sweden.

Mikela Lundahl Hero, Senior Lecturer, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Anna Johansson, Senior Lecturer, Division of Social Work and Social Pedagogy, University West, Sweden.

Pia Laskar, Associate Professor, Department of Research and Collections, National Historical Museums of Sweden.

Lena Martinsson, Professor, Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Diana Mulinari, Professor, Department of Gender Studies, University of Lund, Sweden.

Cathrin Wasshede, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg , Sweden.

Inhalt

1. Introduction; Erika Alm, Linda Berg, Mikela Lundahl Hero, Anna Johansson, Pia Laskar, Lena Martinsson, Diana Mulinari and Cathrin Wasshede.- 2. Public Intimacy and White Feminism: On the Vain Trust in Scandinavian Equality; Mikela Lundahl Hero.- 3. We Were Here, and We Still Are: Negotiations of Political Space Through Unsanctioned Art; Linda Berg and Anna Sofia Lundgren.- 4. 1 May Muslim Women Talk Back: A Political Transformation of Secular Modernity on International Workers' Day; Lena Martinsson.- 5. Fat, Black and Unapologetic: Body Positive Activism Beyond White, Neoliberal Rights Discourses; Anna Johansson.- 6. Rainbow Flag and Belongings/Disbelongings: Öckerö Pride and Reclaim Pride in Gothenburg, Sweden 2019; Cathrin Wasshede.- 7. Pink Porn Economy: Genealogies of Transnational LGBTQ organising; Pia Laskar.- 8. A State Affair?: Notions of the State in Discourses on Trans Rights in Sweden;Erika Alm.- 9. Pain is hard to put on paper: Exploring the Silences of Migrant Scholars; Despina Tzimoula and Diana Mulinari.- 10. Contesting Secularism: Religious and Secular Binary Through Memory Work; Linda Berg, Anna Johansson, Pia Laskar, Lena Martinsson, Diana Mulinari and Cathrin Wasshede.