Global Justice and Desire

Nikita Dhawan is Junior Professor of Political Science for Gender and Postcolonial Studies and Director of the Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Antke Engel is the director of the Institute for Queer Theory in Berlin, Germany. Christoph H. E. Holzhey is the founding director of the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Germany. Volker Woltersdorff is currently a fellow at the ICI Berlin Institute, Germany.

I. Entanglements of Desire and Economy; 1. Marx’s Concept of Radical Needs in the Guise of Queer Desire 2. Can the Subaltern Desire? The Erotic As a Power and the Disempowerment of the Erotic 3. The Associations of Black Queer Life: Reading and Seeing the Nineteen Eighties 4. Queer Economic Justice: Desire, Critique, and the Practice of Knowledge II. Intersections of Sexual and Economic Justice; 5. The Instrumentalization of Sexual Diversity in a Civilizational Frame of Cosmopolitanism and Tolerance 6. Unruly Desires, Gay Governance, and the Makeover of Sexuality in Postcolonial India 7. Integrating Sexual and Economic Justice: Challenges for queer feminist activism against sexual violence in South Africa 8. Classing Desire: Erotics, Politics, Value III. The Political Economy of Queer Embodiments 9. Queer Needs Commons! Transgressing the Fiction of Self-ownership, Challenging Westocentric Proprietism 10. The Ruse of Sexual Freedom: Neoliberalism, Self-Ownership and Commercial Sex 11. Queer Economies: Possibilities of Queer Desires and Economic Bodies (Because ‘The Economy’ Is Not Enough)