Sexualities and National Identities: Re-imagining Queer Nationalism

Rankin, L. Pauline

doi:10.3138/jcs.35.2.176

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“…There was a clear pattern wherein those who did include race within the purview of identity politics spoke of identities as material and contextual rather than as essentialist or exclusively interest-based. Authors who included race in their discussion of identity politics (for example, Briskin, 1989; Conway, 2000; Jhappan, 1996; MacDonald, 1998; Pearson, 1998/1999; Rankin, 2000; Starvo, 2007) all stress the significance of social location to identity formation, with Conway noting that “identity politics had emerged partly in response to the failure of socialist-inspired politics to adequately address oppressions based on gender, race and sexuality and a myriad of cultural and other questions not reducible to class” (2000: 46–47). Jhappan is particularly concerned with how entrenched academic disciplines have “proved stubbornly resistant to any sustained analysis of racialization” (1996: 18) and considers how both strategic essentialism and positionality offer pathways to understanding race in the context of political organization.…”

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Engaging with Identity Politics in Canadian Political Science

Bernhardt

2018

Can J Pol Sci

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This paper critiques the deployment of the term “identity politics” in Canadian political science. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of research articles in leading English language academic journals in the Canadian social sciences, we examine whose politics are labelled identity politics and what intellectual work transpires through this label. Identity politics tends to be applied to scholarship that foregrounds analyses of ethnicity, race and gender, but with a lack of analytical rigour, indicating a degree of conceptual looseness. Moreover, the designation identity politics is not neutral; it is often mobilized as a rhetorical device to distance authors from scholarship that foregrounds analyses of ethnicity, race and gender, and to inscribe a materialist/culturalist divide in claims-making. We argue that the effect of this demarcation of identity from politics is to control the boundaries of political discourse, limiting who and what gains entry into the political. This serves to reassert an exclusionary conception of Canadian identity.

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Engaging with Identity Politics in Canadian Political Science

Bernhardt

2018

Can J Pol Sci

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“…Bununla birlikte, aynı dönemde, queer millet tartışmasının doğrudan doğruya nominalizm meselesine bağlandığı tespiti de giderek öne çıktı (Jenson, 1993). Bu açıdan, Fransız postyapısalcılığı ile Lacanyen psikanalizin etkisi altındaki queer milliyetçilik, kurumsallaşmış heteroseksüelizmi reddettiği gibi, birleşik bir eşcinselliğe karşı bir itiraz da geliştirdi (Rankin, 2000). Bu nedenle, queer millet; aşkın, evrensel ve soyut bir dayanak üzerinden tanımlanmadığı ölçüde, çoğunlukla, göreli bir aidiyet bağlamına ve nominal bir tarife ait sayıldı.…”

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Etnisite ve milliyetçilik: eleştirel bir değerlendirme

Yalçiner¹

2014

Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi

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Etnisite ve milliyetçilik, genellikle, özgülcülük ve adcılığın içiçe geçtiği iki aidiyet meselesi olarak değerlendirilir. Milliyetçilik ve etnisite ilişkisi, aynı zamanda, kimliğin evrenselliği ile temele dayalı işleyişine dair eleştirel bir yorum çerçevesi olarak da görülür. Klasik etnisite ve milliyetçilik okumaları, yurttaşlığa dayalı siyasal aidiyetin evrensel vasfını temellendirmeye girişirken, etnisite ve milliyetçilik ilişkisini özcü bir aidiyet modeli üzerinden tarif ederler. Bu çalışma, neredeyse her daim Janus yüzlü Kartezyen ikileştirme mantığına konu edilen milliyetçilik ve etnisite ilişkisinin eleştirel bir değerlendirmesini sunmaktadır. Çalışma, ilk önce, etnisite ve milliyetçilik ilişkisinin aidiyet çerçevesini değerlendirmektedir. İkinci olarak, çalışma, siyaset teorisindeki güncel tartışmalardan hareketle, etnisite ve milliyetçilik ilişkisinin dönüşen bağlamı üzerinde durmaktadır.Anahtar Sözcükler: Milliyetçilik, etnisite, evrensellik, özgüllük, aidiyet Ethnicity and Nationalism: A Critical Interpretation AbstractEthnicity and nationalism have generally been interpreted as translucent questions of belonging through which particularism and nominalism are fused. The relation between nationalism and ethnicity has also been regarded as a critical continuum of interpretation regarding the universality of identity and its foundational dispositions. While aiming at providing a foundation for the universal character of civic political belonging, classical studies define the relation between ethnicity and nationalism by referencing to an essentialist modality of belonging. This essay introduces a critical reading of the relation between ethnicity and nationalism, which has almost always been subjected to a Cartesian logic of Janus-faced dualisms. This study, first, interprets the context of belonging as regard to the relation between ethnicity and nationalism. Second, by going through contemporary debates in political theory, the essay focuses on the transforming context of the relation between ethnicity and nationalism.

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“…It is a history that, Garber argues, is being ignored, misrepresented, and discredited in the current enthusiasm for the field of Queer Studies as it is currently constituted. She writes that its proponents do not adequately acknowledge the philosophical and activist contributions of the previous generation of lesbians of all classes and races to the field, which might help heal the rifts between lesbian feminism and queer theory (Garber, 2001; see also Miller, 1996;Rankin, 2000). Garber is particularly critical of the work of Judith Butler (1990Butler ( , 2004Salih & Butler, 2004), which has become pivotal to the postmodern debates that emphasize fluidity in sexuality and gender identity.…”

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From No Go to No Logo: Lesbian Lives and Rights inChatelaine

Freeman

2006

Canadian Journal of Communication

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This study is a feminist cultural and critical analysis of articles about lesbians and their rights that appeared in Chatelaine magazine between 1966 and 2004. It explores the historical progression of their media representation, from an era when lesbians were pitied and barely tolerated, through a period when their struggles for their legal rights became paramount, to the turn of the present century when they were displaced by post-modern fashion statements about the "fluidity" of sexual orientation, and stripped of their identity politics. These shifts in media representation have had as much to do with marketing the magazine as with its liberal editors' attempts to deal with lesbian lives and rights in ways that would appeal to readers. At the heart of this overview is a challenge to both the media and academia to reclaim lesbians in all their diversity in their real historical and contemporary contexts.Résumé : Cette étude propose une analyse critique et culturelle féministe d'articles publiés dans le magazine Châtelaine entre 1966 et 2004, qui traitent des droits des lesbiennes. Elle explore l'évolution historique de leur représentation dans les médias, de l'époque où les lesbiennes étaient tout juste tolérées, à une période où leur lutte pour leurs droits légaux devint prépondérante, jusqu'au tournant de ce siècle où elles ont été dépouillées de leur politique identitaire et « déplacées » par des éditoriaux postmodernes de la mode sur la « fluidité » de leur orientation sexuelle. Ces déplacements dans la représentation médiatique avaient autant à voir avec la promotion du magazine qu'avec lès tentatives des rédacteurs en chefs de traiter la vie et les droits des lesbiennes de manière à séduire les lecteurs. Au coeur de cette vue d'ensemble, le défi tant pour les médias que pour le monde universitaire est de redéfinir les lesbiennes dans toute la diversité de leurs contextes historique et contemporain réels.

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Sexualities and National Identities: Re-imagining Queer Nationalism

Cited by 15 publications

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Engaging with Identity Politics in Canadian Political Science

Engaging with Identity Politics in Canadian Political Science

Etnisite ve milliyetçilik: eleştirel bir değerlendirme

From No Go to No Logo: Lesbian Lives and Rights inChatelaine

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