Colonialisms and Queer Politics

Sonia Corrêa is a Research Associate at the Brazilian Interdisciplinary Association for AIDS (ABIA), where she co-chairs the Sexuality Policy Watch Program. She has been involved, since the late 1970s, in research and advocacy activities related to gender, sexuality, health, and human rights. Since 2018, her research has focused on anti-gender politics in Latin America and globally. Corrêa has published extensively in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, and is a member of the editorial board of the Palgrave Macmillan book series, Global Queer Politics.Gustavo Gomes da Costa is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and Visiting Scholar at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). His research is on social movements, sexual and LGBT rights, anti-gender politics, elections and political parties, citizenship, homophobia, and human rights in Latin America, southern Africa, and Europe. He has published in International Politics; Sexuality & Culture; International Review of Sociology; Revista Brasileira de Ciência Política; Contemporânea - Revista de Sociologia; Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad - Revista Latinoamericana; and Physis.Matthew Waites is Reader in Sociological and Cultural Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Age of Consent: Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship and co-editor (with Corinne Lennox) of Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change. He co-edited the collection The Global Politics of LGBT Human Rights in Contemporary Politics, and authored articles in Current Sociology; International Politics; and the Journal of Genocide Research. He is also co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book series, Global Queer Politics.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsContributor List Chapter 1. Colonialisms, Sexualities, and Genders: Between Decolonizing Analysis and Global Historical SociologySonia Corrêa, Gustavo Gomes da Costa, and Matthew Waites Chapter 2. The Portuguese Empire and its Legacies: From the Inquisition and Fascist Colonialism to Distinctive Post-Decolonization ReformsGustavo Gomes da Costa and Sonia Corrêa Chapter 3. The Spanish Empire and its Legacies: From Violence and Mistranslations to Decolonizing Indigenous SexualitiesJulio César Díaz Calderón and Manuela L. Picq Chapter 4. The British Empire and its Legacies: From Slavery, Criminalization, and the Civilizing Mission to Re-Articulating Human Rights amid Colonialities Matthew Waites Chapter 5. The French Empire and its Legacies: Sexual and Gender Histories Exemplified in the Middle East and AfricaAndrew Delatolla Chapter 6. The Dutch Empire and its Legacies: A Comparative Analysis of Sexuality and Gender Regulation in Asia, the Americas, and South AfricaWigbertson Julian Isenia Chapter 7. The Ottoman Empire and its Legacies: Reconsideration and Decolonization of Islamicate SexualitiesAtacan Atakan Chapter 8. The Russian Empire and its Legacies: Regulating Homosexual Desire in Pre-Revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union, and Present-Day Russia Rustam Alexander Chapter 9. The Belgian Empire and its Legacies: Colonial Silences and Postcolonial Dynamics of Queer (In)Visibility in Central AfricaAmandine Lauro Chapter 10. The German Empire and its Legacies: Queer Men, Sexual Crime, and the Imperative of Colonial HegemonyHeike I. Schmidt Chapter 11. The Italian Empire and its Legacies: Libya and Eritrea as Hubs of a Hybrid Imperial SpaceSilvia Bruzzi Chapter 12. United States Empire and its Legacies: Queer Heterogeneities, Deviant Heterosexualities, and Policing GenderLaura Briggs Chapter 13. Comparative Analysis of Colonialisms in Queer PerspectiveSonia Corrêa, Gustavo Gomes da Costa, and Matthew Waites Chapter 14. Comparing Colonial Legacies in Contemporary Global Queer Politics: Colonialities and ResistancesSonia Corrêa, Gustavo Gomes da Costa, and Matthew Waites Index