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Vorlesungsverzeichnis Wintersemester 2024/2025

(In)Security. Queerness in the age of securitization

Typ:
Theorieseminar
Semester:
WS 24/25
Zielgruppe:
Hauptstudium / Diplom 2
Voraussetzungen

Languages: English, German, Dinglish (most texts are going to be in English)

Anmeldung: possible, but not necessary

Termine - Ort & Zeit

TypAnfangEndeTagTurnusvon-bisOrt
30.10.2429.01.25MittwochWöchentlich14:00 - 16:00Heumarkt 14, H.3.26
Typ
Anfang30.10.24
Ende29.01.25
TagMittwoch
TurnusWöchentlich
von-bis14:00 - 16:00
OrtHeumarkt 14, H.3.26

Beschreibung des Seminars

When gay marriage was legalized in the US, one of the arguments justifying the decision was that marriage fulfilled “yearnings for security […] that express our common humanity”. Inadvertently, this decision queerly echoes research from Queer Theory, in which neoliberal precarization is seen as a mechanism that has turned security into a technology of governing and a focal point of current ways of subjectivation.

For many queers themselves being considered a security risk, a threat to children, to the family, the nation-state, or the reproductive order was and_or is quite a common experience. In racist discourse, on the other hand, the safety of queers has been mobilized against racialized others.

During the last decades, security has turned into a leitmotif of Western societies. Intensified by war on terror discourse, securitization processes portray all kinds of societal issues, such as migration, student protests, poverty, pandemics, houselessness, to name just a few, as security problems, as risks to be managed, and threats to be prevented, most often with the help of technology. In this current technosecurity culture, invocations of threats or dangers justify more and more authoritarian styles of governing.


We’re going to read texts on security and securitization from Queer Theory, from feminist Science & Technology Studies, and critical studies of security, and are going to try to figure out what a queer take on (In)Security could look like.

Studienbüro

Studienbüro
Karin Cordes

Juliane Schwibbert

Claudia Warnecke

Heumarkt 14

50667 Köln


Tel.: +49 221 20189 - 194 /

119 / 187 / 249
Fax: +49 221 20189 - 49249
E-Mail: studoffice@khm.de


Am 11.11.24 nur per E-Mail oder telefonisch erreichbar!!


Öffnungszeiten:

Montag + Dienstag von 10 - 13  Donnerstag von 10 - 16 Uhr


Anfragen oder Termine sind auch telefonisch, Mo - Do 9:30 bis 13:00 Uhr,  möglich oder per E-Mail.


Wintersemester 2024/25

Vorlesungszeit:
21.10.2024 bis 14.02.2025

Winterpause:

23.12.2024 bis 03.01.2025



Sommersemester 2025

Vorlesungszeit:

14.04. 2025 bis 25.07.2025

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