Queering International Law

Professor Dianne Otto held the Francine V McNiff Chair in Human Rights Law at the University of Melbourne Law School, Australia, 2013–2016. She is currently a Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Law School.

Introduction Embracing Queer Curiosity Dianne Otto Part I Complicities: Sexuality, Coloniality and Governance 1. A Tale of Two Atonements Rahul Rao 2. ‘Dangerous Desires’: Illegality, Sexuality, and the Global Governance of Artisanal Mining Doris Buss and Blair Rutherford 3. The Anatomy of Neoliberal Internet Governance: A Queer Critical Political Economy Perspective Monika Zalnieriute Part II Possibilities: Rethinking Violence, War and Law 4. International Law as Violence: Competing Absences of the Other Vanja Hamzić 5. The Maintenance of International Peace and Security Heteronormativity Tamsin Phillipa Paige 6. In Spite: Testifying to Sexual and Gender Based Violence during the Khmer Rouge period Maria Elander Part III Alliances: Making Queer Lives Matter 7. The Im/possibility of Queering Human Rights Ratna Kapur 8. Homoglobalism: The Emergence of Global Gay Governance Aeyal Gross 9. Governing (Trans)Parenthood – The Tenacious hold of Biological Connection and Heterosexuality Anniken Sørlie Part IV Risks: Troubling Statehood, Sovereignty and its Borders 10. Queer Border Crossers: Pragmatic Complicities, Indiscretions and Subversions Bina Fernandez 11. Queering International Law’s Stories of Origin: Hospitality and Homophobia Nan Seuffert 12. Resisting the Heteronormative Imaginary of the Nation State: Rethinking Kinship and Border Protection Diane Otto