Description
Sexuality—broadly defined to include sexual practices, behaviors, desires, and identities—remains a key site of political struggle around the world. While mainstream (and some critical) IPE has tended to overlook the importance of sexuality, there is a rich tradition of feminist and queer scholarship that locates sexual subjectivities, labor, and oppression firmly within the boundaries of the global capitalist economy. Our aim in this roundtable is to contribute to wider efforts to foster connections between scholars working on queer theory within IPE as well as to create connections with scholars outside of the field who are also interested in queer political economy questions. In so doing, we reflect on the potential of queer IPE not only to interrogate the sexual politics of neoliberalism but also to examine how the legacies of slavery and colonialism continue to shape global terrains of sexual struggle and injustice.
