Lecturer / Assistant Professor | University of Leeds | United Kingdom (UK)
Dr Andrew Delatolla is a Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Leeds, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the current Chair of the LGBTQA+ Caucus of the International Studies Association.
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Gender & Sexuality | North America
Sexuality as a Standard of Civilization: Historicizing (Homo)Colonial Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class
It is important to acknowledge the colonial dimension of the governance of (homo)sexuality. By doing so, practitioners gain a nuanced understanding of LGBTQ+ communities in the global south and they avoid perpetuating the harmful binary understanding of the world as consisting of ‘civilised’ and ‘uncivilised’ people.