Family Matters: How Queering the Intimate Queers the International

A key insight of queer analytics is that codes and practices of 'normalcy' simultaneously constitute 'deviancy,' exclusions, and 'otherings' as sites of social violence. To reveal how power operates in normative codes and normalizing practices, queer theory aims to ...

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Published in:International Studies Review 2014-12, Vol.16 (4), p.604-608
Main Author: Peterson, V. Spike
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Boundaries
Citizenship
Family studies
Households
International migration
International relations
International studies
Kinship
Labor migration
Marriage
Normativity
Political migration
Queer culture
Queer studies
Queer theory
Same sex marriage
Sex
Sexuality
State Power
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Violence
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Summary:A key insight of queer analytics is that codes and practices of 'normalcy' simultaneously constitute 'deviancy,' exclusions, and 'otherings' as sites of social violence. To reveal how power operates in normative codes and normalizing practices, queer theory aims to 'make strange'-disrupt, destabilize, deconstruct, effectively to queer-what is considered normal, commonplace, taken-for-granted, of the 'natural order of things.' The point is to contest normativities and orthodoxies (Browne 2006:886), in part by exposing 'regimes of the normal' (Eng et al. 2005: 3) as historical contingent and power-laden social constructions and by disclosing inconsistencies, instabilities, and fluidities of social meanings and boundaries. In particular, queer work contests 'power-ridden normativities of sex' (Berlant and Warner 1995:345) exemplified in heteronormative sex/affective arrangements, and the 'normalizing mechanisms of state power' (Eng et al. 2005: I) exemplified in heteropatriarchal marriage/kinship arrangements. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:1521-9488
1468-2486
DOI:10.1111/misr.12185