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Gender, Sexuality and Global Politics

Series Editors: Ali Bilgic, Loughborough University, UK, Synne L. Dyvik, University of Sussex, UK, Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway Thomas Gregory, The University of Auckland, New Zealand and Swati Parashar, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Expanding the boundaries of international relations, this series reflects on politics globally with innovative and transdisciplinary perspectives.

With a focus on feminist, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer activism, the series critically examines existing hierarchies, practices and power relations in global politics, investigating the often violent effects of these on different peoples, geographies and histories. In doing so, it enables new ways of thinking about and doing politics globally beyond the exclusionary and oppressing dichotomies that have come to dominate this field.

The series aims to showcase work that addresses:

  • Feminist theory: research that challenges the traditional scope of global politics through feminist, non-hegemonic perspectives, interrogating dominant and hierarchal discourses
  • Queer theory: work that broadens the analyses of IR through the exploration of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans narratives
  • Transdisciplinary and intersectional research: diverse work that is interdisciplinary and intersectional by nature
  • Transformative and critical approaches: innovative research that reimagines the epistemological and ontological frameworks of IR, through methods that reconceptualize the practice and future of global politics
  • Non-Western and post-colonial theory: research that decentres existing theorising in IR and explores non-Western perspectives and approaches, particularly from the Global South


If you would like to submit a proposal or to discuss ideas please email Stephen Wenham: s.wenham@bristol.ac.uk.

International Editorial Board

Linda Åhäll, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Terrell Carver, University of Bristol, UK
Shine Choi, Massey University, New Zealand
Bina D'Costa, Australian National University, Australia
Paula Drumond, O Instituto de Relações Internacionais PUC-Rio, Brazil
Cynthia Enloe, Clark University, US
Des Gasper, Erasmus University, Netherlands
Inanna Hamati-Ataya, University of Cambridge, UK
Catarina Kinnvall, Lund University, Sweden
Rauna Kuokkanen, University of Lapland, Finland
Peace Medie, University of Ghana, Ghana
Annie Paul, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
Manuela Picq, Amherst College, US
Vicki Squire, University of Warwick, UK
Cemal Burak Tansel, University of Sheffield, UK
Maria Tanyag, Australian National University, Australia
Cai Wilkinson, Deakin University, Australia

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Queer Politics in Contemporary Turkey

Drawing on the words and stories of queer Turkish activists, this book aims to unravel the complexities of queer lives in Turkey. In doing so, it challenges dominant conceptualizations of the queer Turkish experience within critical security discourses.

Bristol Uni Press

Digital Frontiers in Gender and Security

Bringing Critical Perspectives Online

Exploring the digital frontiers of feminist international relations, this book investigates how gender can be mainstreamed into discourse about technology and security.

Bristol Uni Press

Queering Kinship

Non-heterosexual Couples, Parents and Families in Guangdong, China

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Guangdong, China, this book explores the various tactics queer people employ to have children and to form queer or ‘rainbow’ families. It unpacks people’s experiences of cultivating, or losing, kinship relations through their negotiation with biological relatives, cultural conventions and state legislations.

Bristol Uni Press

Gender, Identity and Conflict

Theorising Gender, Peace and Security in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland

Bristol Uni Press

Boundaries of Queerness

Homonationalism and Racial Politics in Sweden

This book explores how race, sexuality and gender are employed in political projects of belonging, whilst examining the implications for individual identity formation, in the context of Sweden.

Bristol Uni Press

Queer Conflict Research

New Approaches to the Study of Political Violence

Bringing together a team of international scholars, this volume provides a foundational guide to queer methodologies in the study of political violence and conflict.

Bristol Uni Press

Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and International Politics

Feminist Technoscience, Biopolitics and Security

Analysing the plasma of paid Mexicana/o donors in the US, airport vomit in Ebola epidemics, and the semen of soldiers with genitourinary injuries, this book shows how security practices focus upon governing bodily fluids and, as a result, perpetuate inequalities.

Bristol Uni Press