Unsettling Queer Criminology: Notes Towards Decolonization

Notes on Tango ( as ) Queer ( Commodity )

In this paper, I reflect on queer (non-heteronormative) interests in tango. Puzzled, I wonder why tango, an icon of hyper-heteronormative ‘love’, attracts dancers with queer sensibilities. In order to begin exploring answers, I look into tango as a commodity, composed of aesthetics and affects, which circulates as a fetish that can be consumed in globalisation unhinged from its socio-cultural m...

Monstrous Fairytales: Towards an Écriture Queer

Medical criminology notes No. 5: male homosexual prostitution.

Medical criminology notes "1. Victim-precipitated criminal homicide.

Unsettling Master Categories: Notes on Studying the Global in C. W. Mills’ Footsteps

C. W. Mills’ sociology arises out of the problematizing of established “truths.” The aim becomes a sociology that unsettles—not a sociology of unsettlement but a sociology that is itself unsettling. In this short essay I focus on themes that capture one way (mine) of executing C. W. Mills’ challenge to us, academic sociologists. The substantive focus is on what is needed to develop critical glo...