Queer theory

Vanja Hamzić

Chapter 17 in Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), 2025, pp 195-205 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Determined in their search for the otherwise-to-‘normal life’ produced by late capitalist extractions of knowledge and resources alike, both TWAIL and queer theory coalesced in the early 1990s through academic alliances of scholars who saw themselves, structurally and politically, on the margin of their disciplinary fields. Far from being deterred by such circumstances, TWAIL and queer theory scholars invested deeply in seeing that margin flourish, as a potent source of knowing and togetherness. This chapter offers an introductory description of that capacious margin, zooming in on an emergent field of queer TWAIL scholarship. Several recent edited collections, in French and English, are assessed first, leading up to a range of tendencies, tensions and transformations in individual queer Third-Worldist scholarship. These multifarious yet clearly interconnected works are set to challenge their own erstwhile methodological limits, as they contribute and continue to seek out new forms of coalitional knowledge production.

Keywords: Praxis; Who-what; Dis/orient; Homocapitalism; Distemporality; Coalitional thinking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781789901511
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