A decolonial narrative of sexuality and world politics when race is everywhere and nowhere. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Díaz Calderón, Julio César
• Is Part Of: Critical studies on security. Volume 9:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 17
• Page End: 21
• Publication Date: 2021-01-02
• Subjects: Sexuality -- gender -- decoloniality -- narrative -- trauma -- aesthetics -- ethics -- violence; Security, International -- Periodicals; International relations -- Periodicals; 355
• DOI: 10.1080/21624887.2021.1904190
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2162-4909

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In a first section, this article introduces three postcards narrating sexual politics in three different States. Each postcard was inspired by a way of conceptualising 'race' in world politics: as a powerful structure altering the starts and ends of wars, as a social construction of bodies creating economic and political (hierarchical) institutions, and as a historical and material global order engendered through colonial encounters and dehumanisation processes. In a second section, this article constructs a theory of sexual ethical horizons for global political action obtained through aesthetics of trauma and movement. It argues that narratives emanating from pleasure itself can resist the formation of a (new) science of sexual politics and, instead, they can create conocimientos (decolonial knowledges) for political movement amidst global trauma and violence.