Transnationalizing Gender and Sexuality Studies: Beyond the Local and the Global (Co-sponsored with the Section on Sociology of Sexualities)

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

How would U.S. scholarship on gender and sexualities look if we placed transnational studies at the center? This session examines the innovations that transnational studies of gender and sexualities offer to U.S.-based research. It seeks to alter the perception that the term “transnational” applies only to research conducted with immigrant populations or in non-U.S. settings. The scholars on this session will help us rethink U.S.-based gender and sexualities research by centering a transnational framework. They will address questions such as the following: How can we move away from equating transnationalism with globalization? What can theoretical frameworks that inform transnational studies—such as colonialism, settler colonialism, and empire—contribute to so-called mainstream gender and sexuality studies in U.S. settings? And, finally, how would a transnational framework change our categories of analysis in U.S.-based research?

Sub Unit

• Section on the Sociology of Sex and Gender

Session Organizers

• Hector Carrillo, Northwestern University

• Ghassan Moussawi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Presider

• Ghassan Moussawi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Individual Presentations

• Transnational Perspectives on Black Feminist Politics - Oluwakemi M. Balogun, University of Oregon

• Reinventing Sex-Gender-Sexuality in the Time of US Hegemony - Vrushali Patil, Florida International University

• Doing Transnationalism: Toward a Genealogy of Critical Methodologies - Jyoti Puri, Simmons University

• Un-American: Sexual Strangers Reveal the Transnational within - Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer, Université Bordeaux Montaigne