(Un)liveabilities: Homonationalism and transnational adoption
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(Un)liveabilities: Homonationalism and transnational adoption. / Petersen, Michael Nebeling; Myong, Lene.
In: Sexualities, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2015, p. 329-345.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - (Un)liveabilities: Homonationalism and transnational adoption
AU - Petersen, Michael Nebeling
AU - Myong, Lene
N1 - Epub
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Rosa Morena tells a story about kinship in which a white homosexual Danish man adopts a child born to a black poor Brazilian woman. Using a theoretical framework of biopolitics and affective labour the article highlights how the male homosexual figure is being cast as heteronormative and white in order to become intelligible as a parent and the bearer of liveable kinship. The casting rests on the affective and reproductive labour of the birth mother who is portrayed as an unsuitable parent through a colonial discourse steeped in sexualized and racialized imagery. A specific distribution of affect fixates and relegates the birth mother to a state of living dead, and thus she becomes the bearer of an unliveable kinship.
AB - Rosa Morena tells a story about kinship in which a white homosexual Danish man adopts a child born to a black poor Brazilian woman. Using a theoretical framework of biopolitics and affective labour the article highlights how the male homosexual figure is being cast as heteronormative and white in order to become intelligible as a parent and the bearer of liveable kinship. The casting rests on the affective and reproductive labour of the birth mother who is portrayed as an unsuitable parent through a colonial discourse steeped in sexualized and racialized imagery. A specific distribution of affect fixates and relegates the birth mother to a state of living dead, and thus she becomes the bearer of an unliveable kinship.
U2 - 10.1177/1363460714544809
DO - 10.1177/1363460714544809
M3 - Journal article
VL - 18
SP - 329
EP - 345
JO - Sexualities
JF - Sexualities
SN - 1363-4607
IS - 3
ER -
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