Performative States

Weber, Cynthia

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“…Second, while queer international theories contribute to scholarly discussions about war, security and terrorism (Weber, 2002;Owens, 2010), states and nationalism (Weber, 1998b;Peterson, 1999Peterson, , 2013, sovereignty, intervention, hegemony (Weber, 1994a(Weber, , 1994b(Weber, ,1999Pratt, 2007), empire (Agathangelou, 2013) and other international forms of violence, they do not restrict themselves to focusing on "high politics" or "the states-system, the diplomatic community itself " (Wight, 1966:22). Instead, they often twin the content of Queer Political Theory by using an array of interdisciplinary high and low theories, epistemologies, and methods (see Sedgwick, 1991) 1997:11).…”

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Why is there no Queer International Theory?

Weber

2014

European Journal of International Relations

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the anonymous referees, and the editors of EJIR for their close readings of and astute engagements with my argument. Thanks to Aristea Fotopoulou for her research assistance and Joanna Wood for her editing assistance. Abstract:Over the last decade, Queer Studies have become Global Queer Studies, generating significant insights into key international political processes. Yet the transformation from Queer to Global Queer has left the discipline of International Relations largely unaffected, which begs the question: If Queer Studies have gone global, why hasn't the discipline of International Relations gone somewhat queer? Or, to put it in Martin Wight's provocative terms, why is there no queer international theory? This article claims that the presumed non-existence of queer international theory is an effect of how the discipline of IR combines homologization, figuration and gentrification to code various types of theory as failures in order to manage the conduct of international theorizing in all its forms. This means there are generalizable lessons to be drawn from how the discipline categorizes queer international theory out of existence to bring a specific understanding of IR into existence. Since its formation as an academic field, Queer Studies has questioned "the uniformity of sexual identities," tracing how sexual and gender variance undo fixed identity categories like gay, lesbian, and straight. This led to theorizations of sexuality and gender as flexible, often anti-normative, and increasingly politicized (Duggan, 2003).Most of this work involved thinking sex, sexuality and their performances on a personal, institutional or national scale (Rubin, 1984;Butler, 1990; Berlant and Freeman,1992). In response to contemporary global incidents ranging from "the triumph of neoliberalism" to the "infinite 'war on terrorism'" to "the pathologizing of immigrant communities as 'terrorists'" (Eng et al, 2005:1), QueerStudies has largely transformed itself into Global Queer Studies (GQS). In this guise, it produces significant insights on the global workings of "race, on the problems of transnationalism, on conflicts between global capital and labor, on issues of diaspora and immigration, and on questions of citizenship, national belonging, and necropolitics" (Eng et al, 2005:20; also see Povinelli and Chauncey, 1999). GQS contributions to what are arguably the three core areas of International Relations (IR) research -war and peace, state and nation formation, and international political economy -are regularly featured in top-ranked journals and in top-ranked book series (e.g., Puar, 2007; Puar and Rai, 2002;Hoad, 2000;Binnie, 2004;Briggs, 2003;Luibhied and Cantu, 2005;Luibhied, 2002Luibhied, , 2007Kuntsman, 2009;Spurlin, 2013; 3 Cruz-Malave and Manalansan, 2002;Eng et al, 2005, Khanna, 2007. But not in the field of IR.Strikingly, this resurgence of activity in and attention to GQS and to the scholarship it is producing has largely bypassed IR. Since Queer Studies made the turn to Global Queer Studies over the ...

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Why is there no Queer International Theory?

Weber

2014

European Journal of International Relations

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“…Barthes' instruction is this -read (queer) figures not only through the "either/or" but also through the (pluralized) and/or. Neuwirth/Wurst in an "either/or" logic of statecraft as mancraft (Ashley, 1989), in which the crafting of a singular "sovereign man" for the European Community functions through a traditional understanding of sovereignty as "a complex practice of authorization, a practice through which specific agencies are enabled to draw a line" between who can legitimately be included and excluded from the political community 11 Weber (1998bWeber ( , 1999 argues "the revolutionary state" of Castro's Cuba was figured as a pluralized and/or sovereign logoi through its multiple codings of sex, gender, and sexuality that prompted a "queer performative" foreign policy response by the US. Lind and Keating (2013) argue President Correa's figuring of Ecuador's sovereign logoi "revolutionary citizen" as complexly "homoprotectionist" and/or "homophobic" effects wider Latin American policy.…”

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Queer Intellectual Curiosity as International Relations Method: Developing Queer International Relations Theoretical and Methodological Frameworks

Weber

2015

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Abstract:This article outlines two theoretical and methodological approaches that take a queer intellectual curiosity about figurations of "homosexuality" and "the homosexual" as their core. These offer ways to conduct international-relations research on "the homosexual" and on international-relations figurations more broadly, e.g. from "the woman" to "the human rights holder." The first approach provides a method for analyzing figurations of "the homosexual" and sexualized orders of international relations that are inscribed in IR as either normal or perverse. The second approach offers instructions on how to read plural figures and plural logics that signify as normal and/or perverse (and which might be described as queer). Together, they propose techniques, devices and research questions to investigate singular and plural IR figurations -including but not exclusively those of "the homosexual" -that map international phenomena as diverse as colonialism, human rights, and the formation of states and international communities in ways that exceed IR survey research techniques that, for example, incorporate "the homosexual" into IR research through a "sexuality variable."The new persecution of the peripheral sexualities entailed an incorporation of perversions and a new specification of individuals….Homosexuality appeared as one

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“…My aim is to trace prevailing trends of white self-identification through fieldwork and place them in historical context with an interpretative reading of the yellow peril canon. The application of Judith Butler's notion of gender performativity (Butler,1990) into the realm of international relations by Weber (Weber, 1998), is a good starting point to understand how the script for the global performance of whiteness is written. Weber argues that like sex and gender, sovereignty and the state have come to be seen as existing naturally in the traditional study of International Relations.…”

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Is Fu Manchu Still Alive? Sexuality and Yellow Peril Stereotypes Among White Expatriates in Taiwan

Levent¹

2018

Yaratıcı Drama Dergisi

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Performative States

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Why is there no Queer International Theory?

Why is there no Queer International Theory?

Queer Intellectual Curiosity as International Relations Method: Developing Queer International Relations Theoretical and Methodological Frameworks

Is Fu Manchu Still Alive? Sexuality and Yellow Peril Stereotypes Among White Expatriates in Taiwan

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