Disrupting queer inclusion : Canadian homonationalisms and the politics of belonging /

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Imprint:	Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2015] ©2015
Description:	xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Sexuality studies series Sexuality studies series.
Subject:	Sexual minorities -- Canada. Social integration -- Political aspects -- Canada. Belonging (Social psychology) -- Political aspects -- Canada. Queer theory -- Canada. Queer theory. Sexual minorities. Social integration -- Political aspects. Canada.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10386248

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Other uniform titles:	Dryden, OmiSoore H., 1965- Lenon, Suzanne, 1966- Awwad, Julian, 1976- Queer regulation and the homonational rhetoric of Canadian exceptionalism.
ISBN:	9780774829434 0774829435 9780774829458 0774829451 9780774829465 077482946X 9780774829441 0774829443
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Issued also in electronic format.
Summary:	Canada likes to present itself as a paragon of LGBTQ rights. This book contends that rather than being a beacon of justice, Canada's newfound acceptance of the LGBTQ community is a smokescreen that obscures and abets multiple forms of oppression--including the marginalization of queers who do not fit within accepted norms. As the title to this provocative volume implies, Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging seeks to unsettle the belief that inclusion equates to justice. The contributors draw from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives to detail how, in the fight for acceptance within mainstream society, "liberal gays" have unwittingly become complicit participants in a system that entrenches racialization as structured by white supremacy, furthers settler colonialism, advances neoliberalism, and props up imperialist mythologies (such as the one that Canada is a safe haven for homosexuals). They do this by highlighting the uneven relationships produced by normative articulations of sexual citizenship in a wide-range of contexts--in prisons, at PRIDE House, Pride marches, fetish fairs, and the feminist porn awards--as well as within the laws and regulations governing marriage, hate crimes, citizenship, blood donation, and refugee claims.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Interventions, Iterations, and Interrogations That Disturb the (Homo)Nation
1. Queer Regulation and the Homonational Rhetoric of Canadian Exceptionalism
2. Unveiling Fetishnationalism: Bidding for Citizenship in Queer Times
3. Pink Games on Stolen Land: Pride House and (Un)Queer Reterritorializations
4. Disruptive Desires: Reframing Sexual Space at the Feminist Porn Awards
5. Monogamy, Marriage, and the Making of Nation
6. Homonationalism at the Border and in the Streets: Organizing against Exclusion and Incorporation
7. "A Queer Too Far": Blackness, "Gay Blood," and Transgressive Possibilities
8. National Security and Homonationalism: The QuAIA Wars and the Making of the Neoliberal Queer
9. Don't Be a Stranger Now: Queer Exclusions, Decarceration, and HIV/AIDS
References
Contributors
Index

Disrupting queer inclusion : Canadian homonationalisms and the politics of belonging /

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