In this week’s episode Tamsin Philippa Paige interviews Emily Jones about posthuman feminism, and what it means for international law. Tamsin and Emily also discuss disability and academia.
Lots of recommendations!
From Emily: Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism (Duke University Press 2011)
Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman (Polity Press 2013)
Hilary Charlesworth, ‘The Sex of the State in International Law,’ in Ngaire Naffine and Rosemary Owens (eds.), Sexing the Subject of Law, (LBC Information Services, 1997): 251-268.
Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Duke University Press 2004)
Donna Haraway – A Cyborg Manifesto – reprinted in lots of places see e.g. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fictionnownarrativemediaandtheoryinthe21stcentury/manifestly_haraway_—-_a_cyborg_manifesto_science_technology_and_socialist-feminism_in_the_….pdf
Gina Heathcote, Feminist Dialogues on International Law: Successes, Tensions, Futures (Oxford University Press 2019)
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Anticloack world (NYU Press 2020)
Emily Jones, Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives (Routledge 2023)
Ratna Kapur, ‘The (im)possibility of queering international Human Rights Law,’ in Dianne Otto (ed), Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks (Routledge 2017)
Lys Kulamadayil, ‘Ableism in the College of International Lawyers: on disabling differences in the professional field,’ Leiden Journal of International Law 36(3) (2023)
José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (NYU Press 2009)
Usha Natarajan and Julia Dehm, ‘Where is the Environment? Locating Nature in International Law,’ TWAILER: Reflections (2019): https://twailr.com/where-is-the-environment-locating-nature-in-international-law/
Logan J. Smilges, Crip Negativity (University of Minnesota Press 2023)
From Tamsin:
Emma Genovese & Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Life as Distinct from Patriarchal Influence: Exploring Queerness and Freedom through Portrait of a Lady on Fire, https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2024.2328192
Emma Genovese, The Spectacle of Respectable Equality, https://www.unswlawjournal.unsw.edu.au/article/the-spectacle-of-respectable-equality-queer-discrimination-in-australian-law-post-marriage-equality
Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Claerwen O’Hara (eds), Queer Encounters with International Law, https://www.routledge.com/Queer-Encounters-with-International-Law-Lives-Communities-Subjectivities/Paige-OHara/p/book/9781032643045
Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Claerwen O’Hara (eds), Queer Engagements with International Law, https://www.routledge.com/Queer-Engagements-with-International-Law-Times-Spaces-Imaginings/OHara-Paige/p/book/9781032643229
Music: Sam Barsh, Oils of Au Lait
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