Citizenship, Borders and Sexuality - Detailseite

This course addresses topics of citizenship and sexuality and their implications for individuals and institutions. Throughout this course, we will discuss how sexuality and sexual identities impact citizenship and engage in research focusing on complexities of rapidly changing borders of belonging. The course will mainly consider topics in Europe with a number of exceptions beyond the European continent. The language of instruction is English.

Please note: This syllabus is not finalized and subject to change before the first class. The final version of the syllabus will be shared with the participants following the first class. Please do not assume these are the exact lectures and readings.

Session I - Introduction

• Yurdakul, Gökce, Korteweg, Anna, Bloemraad, Irene (2008): “Citizenship and Immigration: Assimilation, Multiculturalism and the Challenges to the Nation State” Annual Review of Sociology 34: 153-179.
• Balibar, Étienne (2015): Citizenship, Polity Press.
• Yuval-Davis, Nira, Wemyss, Georgie (2019): Bordering, "Everyday Bordering, Citizenship, and Belonging", Polity Press.
  

Session II - Sexing Citizenship

• E. F. Isin & B. S. (2002): Sexual citizenship. In Lister, R. Handbook of citizenship studies (pp. 191-208).
• Bell, David (2000):The Sexual Citizen: Queer Politics and Beyond. Cambridge: Polity.
• Richardson, D. (2017). Rethinking Sexual Citizenship. Sociology, 51(2), 208–224.
  

Session III - Destabilizing Citizenship

• Aren Z. Aizura (2006) Of borders and homes: the imaginary community of (trans)sexual citizenship, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 7:2, 289-309
• Vera Mackie (2001) The Trans-sexual Citizen: Queering Sameness and Difference, Australian Feminist Studies, 16:35, 185-192,
• Biehl, João (2004): The Activist State: Global Pharmaceuticals, AIDS and Citizenship in Brazil. Duke University Press.
  • o Guest Presenters: Yener Bayramoglu (Ph.D.): "Violent Sexual Borders in the Time of AIDS in Turkey"

Session IV - Asylum/Refugee Experiences: The Case of LGBTQ Refugees in Europe

• Tschalaer, Mengia (2018): Between queer liberalisms and Muslim masculinities: LGBTQI+ Muslim asylum assessment in Germany.
  • o Guest Presenter: ORAM (Organization for Refuge, Asylum, and Migration)
    

Session V - Sex Tourism, Sex Work, and Migration

• Brennan, Denise (2002): Selling Sex for Visas: Sex Tourism as a Stepping Stone for International Migration.
• Parreñas, Rhacel Salzar (2006): Sex for Sale: Trafficked? Filipino Hostesses in Tokyo’s Nightlife Industry.
• Brennan, Denise (2001): Tourism in Transnational Places: Dominican Sex Workers and German Sex Tourists Imagine One Another. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.
• Agustín, Laura (2005): Migrants in the Mistress’s House: Other Voices in the ‘Trafficking’ Debate.
  

Session VI - Homonationalism and Sexual Citizenship

• Puar, Jaspir (2007): Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times.
• Puar, Jaspir (2013): Rethinking Homonationalism.
• Hartal, Gilly, Sasson-Levy, Orna (2016): Being (in) the Center: Sexual Citizenship and Homonationalism at Tel Aviv's Gay-Center.
  • o Guest Presenter: Gala Rexer (M.A.): Biopolitical, Ethnic-religious, and Cultural Dimensions of Assisted Reproduction in Israel.
    

Other Suggested Readings

• Bell, David (1995): Pleasure and Danger: The Paradoxical Spaces of Sexual Citizenship
• Alexander, M. Jacqui (1994): Not Just (Any) Body Can Be a Citizen: The Politics of Law, Sexuality and Post-coloniality in Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas.
• Juang, Richard M. (2006): Transgendering the Politics of Recognition. In ed. Stryker, Susan, Whittle, Stephen. The Transgender Studies Reader.