The past few decades of scholarship have witnessed a rich out-pouring of critical thought on
the colonial archive and its varied instantiations. For better or for worse, the turn to the …

Sexuality has been present, but obliquely addressed, in human geography for a long time.
Whenever geographers discussed demographic transition models, population dynamics or …

Through literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth
centuries—epic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas, and colonial legislation …

At the Faculty of Arts and Science at Linköping University, research and doctoral studies are
carried out within broad problem areas. Research is organized in interdisciplinary research …

During a 2007 reform of Singapore's Penal Code, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong rejected
calls by gay and lesbian activists for the removal of a colonial-era statute that prohibits 'gross …

This extract from a field research diary is the record of an experience that was shared with
Cassiopeia, 1 a female Brazilian prostitute2 living in Madrid, in one of her attempts to leave …

This paper explores the historical transformation of masculinity and male intimacy in the
Ottoman Empire, with a special emphasis on ethnic, class and gender subtexts of same-sex …

This paper is a Saidian reading of the concept of Americentrism as a continuum process of
Eurocentrism. Culture as a symbol of one's identity is being constructed by the global …

In this essay, I present a “queer” reading of the (post) colonial novels by Jef Geeraerts, a
Flemish author infamous for his explicit depictions of sex and violence in the Belgian Congo …

Beginning with Somerset Maugham's innovative, sexually dissident South Seas novel and
tales and Alfred Hitchcock's gay-inflected revisiting of the Jack the Ripper sensation in silent …