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Laura Sjoberg, Queering the “Territorial Peace”? Queer Theory Conversing With Mainstream International Relations, International Studies Review, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 2014, Pages 608–612, https://doi.org/10.1111/misr.12186
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With others in this forum, I see queer theorizing as having multiple logics—both within each approach to queer theorizing and across queer approaches (see Weber, this forum). In this view, queer is unsettleable, intersectional, uncaging, multiple (and multiplied), both/and (Weber 1999), and engaged in projects of (the productivity of) failure and maybe even destruction (Edelman 2004; Halberstam 2011). Many instantiations of queer might (appropriately) reject conversations with “mainstream” IR. I contend that queer theorizing can be fruitfully applied, not only as rejection and/or transformation, but in conversation with the research agendas of “mainstream” IR (Sjoberg 2012, 2013). Along these lines, this piece uses a brief example of engaging the logics of the materiality of sex in Judith Butler's (1993) Bodies That Matter with the “mainstream” IR research agenda addressing the “territorial peace” (Gibler 2007, 2012; Gibler and Tir 2010; Gibler and Braithwaite 2013). Rather than being representative or totalizing, this engagement is meant to pair one queer theory work with one IR research endeavor to suggest the potential productivity of such engagements.
