Queer Theory in France

酷儿理论是一个总括的术语，描述了一种研究性别和性行为的多学科方法，自20世纪90年代初首次在英美学术界确立以来，这种方法越来越受欢迎。酷儿理论广泛借鉴了战后法国主要思想家的作品，特别是福柯、德里达和拉康的作品。然而，在法国，酷儿理论不仅与英国和美国相比起步较晚，而且实际上仍在努力争取在学术机构占据一席之地。这个项目开始于对为什么存在这种差异的调查，并建议研究法国战后哲学在英美酷儿理论家手中的转变，以及最近将酷儿理论重新翻译回法国语境的情况。在这种跨文化的思想交流中得到了什么，失去了什么？我们将根据不同的法律、社会、政治和制度背景重新审视酷儿理论，以期解释酷儿理论在法国惊人的滞后性。通过这样做，该项目将促进来自所有三个国家背景的酷儿理论家之间蓬勃发展的对话。该项目将解决以下问题：-英美酷儿理论的第一波浪潮是如何利用和改变其对法国的影响的？-酷儿理论在法国的国家背景下又是如何转变的？-法国社会、政治、学术和法律机构的哪些具体特征决定了酷儿理论被践踏或拒绝的程度？-作为话语和制度的精神分析是如何影响这一过程的，因为它在法国的文化分量更大？-为什么酷儿理论更容易被法国的一些学术部门吸收(历史，历史，学术和法律机构)社会学)与其他(文献)不同？-基层LGBTQ激进主义，特别是艾滋病毒/艾滋病激进主义，在英国、美国和法国参与理论辩论的方式有什么不同？-在英国、美国和法国，同性恋分离主义/同化问题是如何被区别对待的？-为什么在英国、美国和法国，关于无背带(不安全)性行为的辩论是不同的？-通过研究这些差异能得到什么？它们在历史上是不可逾越的吗？酷儿理论家和在三个国家工作的活动家之间的对话将如何重振酷儿理论和这三个国家LGBTQ社区的文化？

Queer theory is an umbrella term describing a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of gender and sexuality that has grown in popularity since it first became established in the Anglo-American academic world in the early 1990s. Queer theory borrowed extensively from the work of leading French thinkers of the post-war period, in particular Foucault, Derrida and Lacan. However, in France itself queer theory has not only established itself relatively late in comparison with the UK and the US, but indeed is still fighting to gain a stronghold in academic institutions. This project begins as an investigation into why such a discrepancy exists, and proposes to look into both the transformation of French post-war philosophy in the hands of Anglo-American queer theorists, as well as the more recent re-translation of queer theory back into the French context. What has been gained and lost in this intercultural traffic of ideas? We shall re-examine queer theory in the light of the different legal, social, political, and institutional contexts with a view to accounting for the striking belatedness of queer theory in France. In so doing, the project will foster the burgeoning dialogue between queer theorists from all three national contexts. The project will address the following questions:- How did the first wave of Anglo-American queer theory make use of and transform its French influences?- How, in turn, has queer theory been transformed as it has been reinscribed in the French national context?- What specific features of French social, political, academic and legal institutions inform the extent to which queer theory is emabraced or rejected?- How has psychoanalysis as discourse and institution influenced this process, bearing in mind its greater cultural weight in France?- Why has queer theory been more easily absorbed in some French academic departments (history, sociology) than in others (literature)?- What are the differences between the way grass-roots LGBTQ activism, and in particular HIV/AIDS activism, engages with theoretical debates in the UK, the US and France?- How is the issue of gay separatism/assimilation treated differently in the UK, the US and France?- Why is the debate around 'bareback' (unsafe) sex conducted differently in the UK, the US and France?- What can be gained by examining such differences? Are they historically insurmountable? How would a dialogue between queer theorists and activists working in the three national contexts reinvigorate both queer theory and the cultures of LGBTQ communities across all three nations?