departments / topics

sex/gender and sexuality as categories of the formation of subjectivities, social relations, cultural imaginaries and symbolic representations as well as social discourses, practices, and institutions
intersections of sex/gender and sexuality, particularly in their overlap with other categories of social differentiation and hierarchization
critical epistemologies and histories of knowledge production
developing transdisciplinary and multi-media apporaches

critique of identity categories and identity formation, aiming at new forms of subjectivity, difference, and alterity
embodied subjectivity and the normative binary sex/gender order
Transgender und Intersex
Queer assemblages

socio-cultural and geo-political significance of normative heterosexuality and the sex/gender binary and its historical continuities and changes
sexual politics of the state, of public institutions, organizations, parties, of social movements as well as subcultural interventions
critique of heteronormativity as a form of queer, intersectional critique of domination
modes of political organization: democracy, citizenship, participation, social dissent, hegemonic consensus in societies, which encourage or discourage a plurality of sex/genders and sexualities

interrelations of sexuality and economy under conditions of neoliberalism and globalization
alternative, sustainable, collective, communal economies
economies of queer sociality
queering care work and care chains

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