Unravelling the New Politics of Racialised Sexualities: Introduction
Unravelling the New Politics of Racialised Sexualities: Introduction
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揭开种族化性行为的新政治:简介
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2012
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P. Scheibelhofer
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S. Bilge;P. Scheibelhofer
In the past decades, the place of sexuality in social analyses has undergone an important transformation. From an approach underscoring the role of social forces in determining the patterns of sexual behaviour and norms, we have come to consider sexuality not only as deeply enmeshed with these social forces, but also as coconstitutive: we now ask how they are produced through sexuality. To give but an example from the field of migration studies, new researches do not only address how immigration impacts on gender and sexual norms and behaviours of migrants, but also raise the question of how sexuality, that is, ‘‘sexual arrangements, ideologies, and modes of regulation’’ shape migration and incorporation processes (Luibhéid 2005: ix). As a consequence of these changes in analytical focus, the field of sexuality studies is now so expanded that it ‘‘requires us to understand such things as racialisation, the dynamic between developed countries and colonies or postcolonies, the stabilisation of sex biomorphism, and so on’’ (Warner 2012: n.p.). Moreover, it calls for a treatment of sexuality not as an addition to a pre-given frame of analysis or a demographic variable, but as an axis of power both constituted and constitutive of other axes of power and forms of dominance. Deeply entangled in power and technologies of making modernity, sexuality is under this light, which owes much to Foucault’s seminal work, shorthand for the politics of gender and sexuality. The papers brought together in our special issue share a critical perspective on the relationship between sexuality, the nation and the global. The questions we address are thus deeply implicated in three major tendencies observed in recent research on sexuality (Binnie 2004: 1 2): a renewed interest in wider socio-economic structures and global capitalism; an explicit focus on the interplay between race, nation and (neo)imperialism and how they are produced and reproduced through sexuality and vice versa; and a growth of interest in the state understood here ‘‘not as a thing, a system, or a subject [. . .] but a significantly unbounded terrain of powers and techniques, an ensemble of discourses, rules and practices, cohabiting in limited, tension-ridden, often contradictory relation with one another’’ (Brown 1995: 174 175). Unlike much work on globalisation that assumes a retreat of the state, most of the papers gathered in our special issue attend to the transformation of state