Why is there no queer international theory?

Over the last decade, Queer Studies have become Global Queer Studies, generating significant insights into key international political processes. Yet, the transformation from Queer to Global Queer has left the discipline of International Relations largely unaffected, which begs the question: if Queer Studies has gone global, why has the discipline of International Relations not gone somewhat queer? Or, to put it in Martin Wight’s provocative terms, why is there no Queer International Theory? This article claims that the presumed non-existence of Queer International Theory is an effect of how the discipline of International Relations combines homologization, figuration, and gentrification to code various types of theory as failures in order to manage the conduct of international theorizing in all its forms. This means there are generalizable lessons to be drawn from how the discipline categorizes Queer International Theory out of existence to bring a specific understanding of International Relations into existence

The impact of migration on the sexual health, behaviours and attitudes of Central and East European gay/bisexual men in London

Extensive social psychological research emphasises the importance of groups in shaping individuals' thoughts and actions. Within the child sexual abuse (CSA) literature criminal organisation has been largely overlooked, with some key exceptions. This research was a novel collaboration between academia and the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). Starting from the premise that the group is, in itself, a form of social situation affecting abuse, it offers the first systematic situational analysis of CSA groups. In-depth behavioural data from a small sample of convicted CSA group-offenders (n =3) were analysed qualitatively to identify factors and processes underpinning CSA groups' activities and associations: group formation, evolution, identity and resources. The results emphasise CSA groups' variability, fluidity and dynamism. The foundations of a general framework are proposed for researching and assessing CSA groups and designing effective interventions. It is hoped that this work will stimulate discussion and development in this long-neglected area of CSA, helping to build a coherent knowledge-base

Journalism, separation, and independence: newspaper coverage of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine, 1948

This article examines the reporting of the end in 1948 of the British Mandate for Palestine in both British Newspapers and the New York Times. The research is focused on 50 news items published during the last few weeks of the Mandate, especially on and around 14th May 1948. The article seeks to explore the relationship between correspondents, the British authorities and the people then living in Palestine. The article argues that, despite various factors which might have influenced their work, the correspondents still struggled for, and achieved, a degree of independence in their reporting. In addition to these more overt influences, the article discusses whether correspondents may have been influenced by a broader mindset prevalent at the time in the society to which they belong. In doing so, it employs Edward Said’s work on Orientalism, especially where Orientalism ‘connotes the high-handed executive attitude of nineteenth-century, and early-twentieth-century European colonialism’. The coverage reveals much about the way the role of Britain in Palestine was portrayed to newspaper audiences at a time when Britain’s influence in the wider region was in decline. In conclusion, the article argues that, for all journalism’s association with political elites, the best reporting from that time provided its audience with valuable insight into the likely consequences of the end of the Mandate – insight which remains valuable today, especially in the year, 2017, which will see both the centenary and the 50th anniversary of, respectively, Balfour Declaration and the Six-Day War

Introduction: queer necropolitics

Book synopsis: Queer Necropolitics addresses the changing parameters of sexual justice that accompany the contemporary regimes of coloniality, the war on terror, incarceration, border enforcement and global neoliberalism