50 Years of LGBTQ Scholarship at APSA Mini-Conference: Globalizing the Study of LGBTQ Politics

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Part of Mini-Conference

• 50 Years of LGBTQ Scholarship at APSA Mini-Conference

Session Description

We have made a substantial amount of progress in understanding the politics of sexual and gender minorities over the past fifty years. Yet, much of this work focuses on the Global North and is done by scholars from the Global North. The politics of LGBTQ rights in the Global South, in comparison, has received less attention in the literature. Scholars from the Global South also confront institutional and attitudinal barriers in the discipline to the study and presentation of research on the Global South that those from the Global North deal with less often.

This roundtable assesses the state of the literature with regard to attention paid to the LGBTQ politics of the Global South, identify our knowledge gaps, and will propose recommendations about how the field can move forward by being more inclusive of scholars globally.

Sub Unit

• Division 47: Sexuality & Politics

Cosponsor

• Status Committees / Committee on Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals in the Profession

Chair

• Scott Nicholas Siegel San Francisco State University

Presenters

• Scott Nicholas Siegel San Francisco State University

• Samuel Ritholtz University of Oxford

• Sarah K. Dreier University of New Mexico

• Sa'ed Atshan Swarthmore College

• Ian Liujia Tian University of Toronto