The Queer Global South

This course introduces students to the most significant theoretical and historical developments of queer theory across various geographical locales known as the Global South. We will examine how a renewed engagement with geopolitics and transnationalism has diversified queer theory’s Euro-American holdings to include untapped regions of South Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, challenging the use of ‘queer’ as a homogenising global entity. The course draws on canonical and recent theoretical texts, films, and documentaries that will introduce students to Non-Euro-American accounts of gender and sexuality amidst broader issues such as global capitalism, nationalism, post-colonialism, diaspora, and migration.