Queering Development:

Genders, Sexualities and Global Power

Call for Papers

Global development initiatives are designed to eradicate poverty and rethink
social distribution, yet most development theories and policies have yet to
take into consideration the lives and experiences of those who do not fit
within prescribed gender and sexual roles in their societies.

Likewise, to the
extent that most frameworks of development and globalization are
heteronormative and gender-normative, they do not provide the possibility of
imagining a “queer” economic, social or political future.

Queering Development
addresses the often invisible relationship among sexuality, gender identity,
development and globalization in examinations of global poverty and social
change. This volume will bring together scholarship from various disciplines,
including but not limited to feminist economics, sociology, anthropology, and
queer, ethnic and postcolonial studies, to examine the meaning and making of
global development in its queer iterations.Queering Development will be divided into three areas: (1) Identities, Theories
and Strategies, (2) Institutions, and (3) Political and Policy Activism.

Possible topics include:

queer analyses of development theory or policy (e.g., markets, globalization,
neoliberalism, privatization, paid and unpaid labor, gender and development,
ethnodevelopment, anti-poverty policy)

more specifically, queer analyses of feminist theories of development,
particularly as they invoke notions of gender, sexuality, femininity, and/or
masculinity

analyses of institutionalized heterosexuality in theory, policy, professional
practice or activist environments

effects of development policies on transgender individuals or communities;
lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals or communities; and/or individuals who do
not fit within normative gender and sexuality categories

relationship between the normalization of gender and sexual identity, on the one
hand, and processes of colonization, racialization and/or globalization, on the
other

LGBTQ social networks and movements in local or transnational context, including
LGBTQ participation in institutional development arenas and in anti-development
protest

analyses that address how to re-imagine the economy, development, globalization,
citizenship, postcoloniality or transnationalism from the perspective of queer
studies

If you are interested in contributing a chapter to this volume, please submit an
abstract of approximately 250-500 words to (Dr. Amy Lind) or (Dr.
Suzanne Bergeron) by November 1, 2005. Completed
manuscripts will be due by March 1, 2006. A concept paper will be distributed
to all contributors at an early stage of this project.