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Queer Engagements with International Law: Times, Spaces, Imaginings book cover

1st Edition

Queer Engagements with International Law Times, Spaces, Imaginings

Edited By Claerwen O'Hara, Tamsin Phillipa Paige Copyright 2025
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge
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This book explores times, spaces and imaginings relating to international law through the lens of queer theory. For some time now, queer theorists and legal scholars who think with queer theory have asked, what happens when queer theory moves out of its home base of gender and sexuality? The chapters in this book begin to answer this question by applying insights from queer theory to a diverse... Read more

1.     Reaching Out Towards the Horizon: Queer Engagements with International Law Beyond Queer Theory’s Site of Origin

Claerwen O’Hara and Tamsin Phillipa Paige

PART 1:

Queering New Spaces in International Law: The Environment, Oceans and Outer Space

2.     Challenging International Environmental Law’s Heteronormativity and Anthropocentrism: Towards Queer Kinship

Emily Jones

3.     Oceans versus Ghost Fleets

Gina Heathcote

4.     On Straightening and Subversion: A Queer Feminist Exploration of International Space Law and Politics

Claerwen O’Hara and Cris van Eijk

PART 2:

Queer Encounters with Temporality and Coloniality in International Law

5.     International Law, Coloniality and the Temporal Otherwise

Vanja Hamzić

6.     Rewriting Queer Markers of Identity: International Cultural Heritage Law, Criminalisation, and the Other

Lucas Lixinski

7.     The Filipina in the Shadows of International Law: A Case Study of Philippine Court Decisions

Ruby Rosselle L. Tugade

PART 3:

Queering International Law’s Imaginaries: Reflections on Legal Myths and Methods

8.     Queering (Un)Certainty in International Criminal Law: Reflections on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Caitlin Biddolph

9.     Uncloseting Travaux

Cris van Eijk

10.  Queer Judging, Straight Up: The Queer Judge and Judicial Systems

Joanne Stagg

PART 4:

Queering Ourselves: Experimenting with Genre in Legal Academia

11.  Repairing (The) International Law (Conference): The Affordances of Theatre

Danish Sheikh

Biography

Claerwen O’Hara is Lecturer at La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University, Australia.

Tamsin Phillipa Paige is Senior Lecturer at Deakin Law School, Deakin University, Australia.

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