(Un)liveabilities: Homonationalism and transnational adoption

Abstract

Rosa Morena tells a story about kinship in which a white homosexual Danish man adopts a child born to a black poor Brazilian woman. Using a theoretical framework of biopolitics and affective labour the article highlights how the male homosexual figure is being cast as heteronormative and white in order to become intelligible as a parent and the bearer of liveable kinship. The casting rests on the affective and reproductive labour of the birth mother who is portrayed as an unsuitable parent through a colonial discourse steeped in sexualized and racialized imagery. A specific distribution of affect fixates and relegates the birth mother to a state of living dead, and thus she becomes the bearer of an unliveable kinship.

Becoming Gay Fathers Through Transnational Commercial Surrogacy

“…Common cultural narratives about transnational adoption are fueled by colonial imagery portraying the Global South as an undesirable geography, making a child’s possible future always better in the Global North (Nebeling Petersen & Myong, 2015). In these imageries, transnational adoption works to elevate Whiteness, as the narrative includes colonial assumptions about the sending countries’ assumed problems with poverty, violence, illness, inequalities, and overpopulation.…”

“…In this way, transnational adoption is staged as the solution to save the children from an impossible future in the Global South. At the same time, this colonial imagery is informed by the racialized hierarchization of heterosexuality in which White heterosexuality in transnational adoption “saves” the consequences of uncontrolled racialized heterosexuality in the Global South (Nebeling Petersen & Myong, 2015). In this affective economy, the child is saved by transnational adoption into a White family in the Global North, and the adoptive parents are staged as saviors of children of the wild heterosexuality in the Global South.…”

Homonationalism in Europe? A Quantitative Comparison of the Values of Europeans

“…The analysis of previous research is methodologically diverse, but mainly qualitative. Some works are based on audiovisual analysis (Cherry, 2018;Szulc & Smets, 2015;Nebeling Petersen & Myong, 2015;MacCann, 2015), others on analysis of the press (Jungar & Peltonen, 2017;Travers & Shearman, 2017;Serykh, 2017). Some deal with pride parades and the LGBTQ+ and/or supporters' communities (Kehl, 2018;Yildiz, 2017;Szulc, 2016;Ammaturo, 2016;Rexhepi, 2016;Sadurní Balcells & Pujol Tarrés, 2015;Hubbard & Wilkinson, 2015;Kulpa, 2014a;Bracke, 2012;Jirvraj & de Jong, 2011) and urban spaces (Mepschen, 2016;Hubbard & Wilkinson, 2015).…”

“…In the review of the articles the use of qualitative methodology was striking: mainly all the articles have been based on discourse and/or narrative (Kehl, 2018;Raboin, 2017;Jungar & Peltonen, 2017;Serykh, 2017;Nebeling Petersen & Myong, 2015;Sadurní Balcells & Pujol Tarrés, 2015;Bury, 2015;Kahlina, 2015;Kulpa, 2014a;Kulpa 2014b; Jirvraj & de Jong, 2011) or content analysis (Travers & Shearman, 2017) and ethnographies (Mepschen, 2016;Ammaturo, 2016). Once we acknowledged the results, we will broaden the methodological tools used in analyzing homonationalism, promoting methodological pluralism (Domínguez Amorós & Simó Solsona, 2003) in this field.…”

Inclusiones desiguales en Latinoamérica y Europa: homofobia y racismo bajo el prisma del homonacionalismo

“…Aunque la producción científica sobre homonacionalismo se ha centrado en EE. UU., Canadá, Israel y Europa, son diversos los estudios que reclaman la necesidad de análisis para Latinoamérica (Pietro, 2016;Nebeling y Myong, 2015;Sabsay, 2012). Este interés se enmarca en lo que se ha denominado "excepcionalismo sexual".…”