The Making of the Cretan Landscape - Softcover

Rackham, Oliver; Moody, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 071903647X ISBN 13: 9780719036477

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 1997

Synopsis

This book analyses fifteen years of debate, media narrative, policy documents and artistic production to uncover the way sexual citizenship is reshaped by LGBT asylum.

Asylum discourses, with their many harrowing stories, have proved a powerful platform for discussion of the sexual rights of those who are not citizens. The forces involved, from the state to LGBT or asylum activists, compete with each other for the redefinition of what progressive sexual politics should be.

This book assesses the consequences of persisting colonial imaginaries on the representation of sexual freedom, as well as of the neoliberal management of asylum for LGBT asylum seekers. The book explores the contradictory role of political emotions such as sympathy, which constitutes both a basis for solidarity and a means of dispossessing claimants of their agency, and finally discusses how optimism can be queered in asylum discourses.

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Review

'...remarkably comprehensive in its scope, covering the history, geology, natural history, agriculture and many peripheral topics in detail. You should read it from start to finish (several times).' --"BBC Wildlife Magazine" 'This is an excellent and very readable book.' --"The Anglo-Hellenic Review"

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 071903647X
• ISBN 13: 9780719036477
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264