Gender and Sexual Orders Making the New Society

Introduction to the Special Issue: Challenges of LGBT research in the 21st century

“…There is also an emergent literature on the queering of key topics in the sociology of social violence and social change such as conflict studies and peacebuilding studies (Bilić & Kajinić, 2016; Serrano-Amaya, 2004), international relations (Sjoberg, 2014) and the study of state formation (Duggan, 1994; Windpassinger, 2010). This literature intends to investigate not just the place of LGBT individuals and collectives in broad sociopolitical issues but to queer nation building, belonging and political identities.…”