Transnational Sexualities (Co-sponsored by Global and Transnational Sociology Section)

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

Co-sponsored by the sections on Global and Transnational Sociology and the Sociology of Sexualities, this session engages the critical transnational sexualities approach that focuses on the circulations of sexual discourses, practices, subjectivities, and institutions among and beyond national contexts. Transnational is thus a conceptual and methodological tool to explore the ways in which sexuality becomes imbued with meaning, or the ways in which transnational hegemonies take national shape. This session invites papers that engage with transnationalism, globalization, diaspora, colonialism, and/or imperialism to shed light on the ways that national differences are often reified through sexual categories and processes, challenging the assumption of what Beck calls the “methodological nationalism” embedded within Euro-America-centric studies. With many recent graduate student paper winners in this area, this panel highlights and celebrates a robust and burgeoning area of scholarship.

Sub Unit

• Sociology of Sexualities Section / Transnational Sexualities (Co-sponsored by Global and Transnational Sociology Section)

Cosponsor

• Global and Transnational Sociology Section

Presiders

• Ying-Chao Kao, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Clayton Covington, Harvard University

Individual Presentations

• Beyond Settlement: Temporal-Spatial Negotiations of Sexuality among Queer Student Migrants - Ziqi Yin, University of Cambridge

• Disrupting Transnational Anti-LGBTQ Politics: Building the Theory of Liquid Conservatism for An Equitable Global Society - Ying-Chao Kao, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Protest or Festival? :LGBTQ+ Sports Activism and the Geopolitics of Gender in East Asia - Jinsun Yang, University of Oregon

• Transnational Sexual Citizenships in Era of Same-Sex Marriage: Flexible and Fragmented Rights for Queer Family Migration - Juhwan Seo, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

• Uno Nunca Sabe: A Transnational Feminist Analysis of Heteronormativity and Latina Immigrants' Sexual Politics - Michelle Gomez Parra, San Francisco State University

Session Organizers

• Ying-Chao Kao, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Clayton Covington, Harvard University