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...Kareem Khubchandani Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Reference Gopinath Gayatri . 2005 . Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . 206 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES QUEERING AREA...

... . ON BEING AREA-­STUDIED A Litany of Complaint Keguro Macharia I am an Africa-­based queer scholar. I am an Africa-­based scholar who has accepted an invitation to participate in a conversation that will live behind a paywall and, thus, will be inaccessible to many in Africa. I am an Africa-­based...

...Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan This essay revisits “Area Impossible: The Geopolitics of Queer Studies” (2016), a special issue coedited by Anjali Arondekar and Geeta Patel. It considers both the overall aims of the issue, including that of reading the politics of queer and area studies as “coincident...

... studies with diaspora studies, area studies, and postcolonial theory. These books help forge the burgeoning field of “queer diasporas,” which works against the genealogical and heteronormative reproductive logic of conventional diaspora studies. At the same time, the field of queer diasporas also...

... theory and practice useful to both area studies and indigenous studies by exploring the discussion generated from the screening of Kumu Hina , a documentary about a Hawaiian Māhū in the Beijing Queer Film Festival and a brief history of ku'er (queer) media culture and discourse in China. Thinking beyond...

... of analytical agendas: casting light on the importance of language and its discursive reach in popular understandings of same-sex desire, overturning the problem of long-standing heteronormative biases in area studies, grappling with the ghost of Western concepts of gender and sexuality, and jostling...

...-century Milwaukee, this essay adds to the emergent scholarship within queer studies that has challenged the previously dominant notion of what Judith Halberstam has termed metronormativity , wherein large metropolitan areas are assumed to provide queer subjects with opportunities that rural spaces...

... George Povinelli Elizabeth A. . 1999 . “Thinking Sexually and Transnationally: An Introduction.” GLQ 5 , no. 4 : 439 – 49 . Cumings Bruce . 1997 . “Boundary Displacement: Area Studies and International Studies during and after the Cold War.” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars...

... between queer theory and area studies, in our case the study of the Middle East as transnational. We come to this question in thinking through disciplinary and archival locations of knowledge production, and the political, economic, and social cartographies that animate both queer theory...

... spheres that we wish to examine concerns the demarcation in the United States of international area studies from American studies. As Tani E. Barlow has argued, international area studies was implicated in the production of Cold War cultural and political...

... of historiography and area studies. Conceived amidst escalating climates of authoritarianism, sectarianism, militarization, and political violence in India, Uganda, Turkey, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China (PRC), the three books dexterously embrace the challenge of writing histories of gender/sexuality within...

... . “Leaving Area Studies Behind: The Challenge of Diasporic Connections in the Field of African Studies.” African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal 1 , nos. 1–2 : 1 – 12 . Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky . 1993 . Tendencies . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Serres Michel...

... and possibilities of scale, we are particularly interested in revisiting the idea of the region, a scale rife with potent and conten- tious political and cultural underpinnings. Indeed, region as a spatial scale has a long, fraught history with Cold War area studies and traditional...

... in international relations, comparative politics, political sociology and anthropology, cultural studies, critical security studies, area studies, and sexuality studies. The Security Archipelago argues that “human-­security” has coalesced, in contradistinction to neoliberal paradigms...

... an unexpected cognitive map. This spatial relocation moves read- ers away from the more familiar terrain of area studies into what Lim alternately calls “transcolonial” and “transnational borderzones.” These spaces facilitate a ...

... and counter the nationalist discourse of Afro-­Caribbean slavery and postcolonial entitlement to land and rule. Indo-­Caribbeans are thus maneuvered into the hybrid, ocean-­ crossing paradigms of Caribbean area studies because the jahaji bhai survived, as the Indo-­Trinidadian historian Ron Ramdin...

... diss., Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Shah, Svati P. 2014. Queering Critiques of Neoliberalism in India: Urbanism and Inequality in the Era of Transnational LGBTQ Rights. Antipode 47, no. 3: 635 51. Shohat, Ella. 2002. Area Studies, Gender Studies, and the Cartographies of Knowledge. Social...

.... This spatial relocation moves read- ers away from the more familiar terrain of area studies into what Lim alternately calls “transcolonial” and “transnational borderzones.” These spaces facilitate a 166 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES deconstruction of the power couple: the presumed...

... . 2013 . “ Queer Kenya in Law and Policy .” In Queer African Reader , edited by Ekine Sokari Abbas Hakima , 273 – 89 . Dakar : Pambazuka Press . Macharia Keguro . 2016 . “ On Being Area-Studied: A Litany of Complaint .” GLQ 22 , no. 2 : 183 – 89 . Matebeni Zethu...

... Prevention Research .” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 23 , no. 2 : 142 – 60 . Macharia Keguro . 2015 . “ Archive and Method in Queer African Studies .” Agenda 1 : 140 – 46 . Macharia Keguro . 2016 . “ On Being Area-Studied: A Litany of Complaint .” GLQ 22 , no. 2 : 183...