The SAGE Handbook of Queer Studies: Volume 2: Developments, Challenges and Futures

The Sage Handbook of Queer Studies: Volume Two, Developments, Challenges, and Futures turns to the most urgent contemporary shifts shaping queer scholarship and queer life.Building on the foundations established in Volume One, this volume engages directly with the ways Queer Studies has been pushed, intellectually and politically, by more thorough attention to ethnicity, race, and on-going legacies of colonialism, and by growing recognition of how global power relations shape the production of knowledge about sexuality.It deepens the handbook’s transdisciplinary ambition by examining how queer identities and experiences are structured not only by culture and representation, but by governance, political struggle, institutional power, and global inequality. Attuned to the changing political landscape, Volume Two explores the benefits and complications that have come with the political mainstreaming of queer existence and analysis.It examines what is gained when queer issues become more v