Sexgen Seminar 4: Transforming Citizenships?

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Capable citizens: lesbian and gay and disabled youth imagine 'normal' adulthoods. Invited presentation by Coleman-Fountain, E., at Sexgen Seminar 4: Transforming Citizenship, Newcastle University, Newcastle, 30 May 2014. Sexgen is a collaborative, interdisciplinary network bringing together gender and sexuality based research centres around the North of England. It's 4th seminar looked at the relationship between sexuality, gender and citizenship, and the construction of concepts of sexual and intimate citizenship, has become an important field of inquiry across a number of disciplines. How have transformations in citizenship in arising from social and legislative change advancing LGBT equalities initiatives impacting on these debates? What are the limitations to current conceptualisations of sexual/intimate citizenship? This seminar explores some of the key contemporary issues that cut across citizenship studies and social and political theory more broadly, including processes of normalisation and the production of new ‘others’, the disciplinary requirements of citizenship (the costs of recognition) and the ways in which majorities/minorities are constructed in relation to one another.

Period	30 May 2014
Event type	Seminar
Location	Newcastle, United KingdomShow on map