The Globalization of Sexuality [Paperback]

What are the relations between homosexuality, globalization and social theory? Why has the debate on globalization paid so little attention to questions of sexuality? This timely and stimulating book explores the relationships between the national state, globalization and sexual dissidence. The book focuses on several key test issues to exploit and develop analysis:

? queer mobility

? migration and tourism

? the economics of queer globalization

? queer politics of post-colonialism

? the spatial politics of AIDS

? queer cosmopolitanism

? nationhood and sexual citizenship.

The book regains an important human dimension that has been conspicuously neglected in the wider debate on globalization.Explores the relationships between the national state, globalization and sexual dissidence.Sexuality and Social Theory - the Challenge of Queer
Globalization
The Nation and Sexual Dissidence
Locating Queer Globalization
The Economics of Queer Globalization
Queer Postcolonialism
Queer Mobility and the Politics of Migration and Tourism
AIDS and Queer Globalization
Queering Transnational Urbanism
Conclusion