Rethinking Sexual Citizenship

Over the last two decades sexuality has emerged as a key theme in debates about citizenship, leading to the development of the concept of sexual citizenship. This article reviews this literature and identifies four main areas of critical framing: work that contests the significance of sexuality to c...

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Published inSociology (Oxford) Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 208 - 224
Main Author Richardson, Diane
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications Ltd 01.04.2017
SAGE Publications
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Citizenship
Conceptual development
Literature reviews
Nationalism
North and South
Politics
Sexuality
heteronormativity
sexual citizenship
LGBT politics
orientalism
intimate citizenship
homonationalism
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Summary:Over the last two decades sexuality has emerged as a key theme in debates about citizenship, leading to the development of the concept of sexual citizenship. This article reviews this literature and identifies four main areas of critical framing: work that contests the significance of sexuality to citizenship; critiques that focus on the possibilities and limitations of mobilising the language of citizenship in sexual politics; analyses of sexual citizenship in relation to nationalisms and border making; and literature that critically examines western constructions of sexuality and sexual politics underpinning understandings of sexual citizenship. In order to progress the field theoretically, the article seeks to extend critiques of sexual citizenship focusing on two key aspects of its construction: the sexual citizen-subject and spaces of sexual citizenship. It argues for a critical rethink that encompasses a de-centring of a ‘western-centric’ focus in order to advance understandings of how sexual citizenship operates both in the Global North and South.
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ISSN:0038-0385
1469-8684
DOI:10.1177/0038038515609024