Dr Jin Haritaworn

LSE Fellow in Transnational Studies, Gender Institute

Biography

My work crosses borders between sociology, cultural studies, gender, sexuality and critical race studies. Current research interests include the convergence of sexual and transgender citizenship and the ‘war on terror’, as well as the role of affect in the racialisation of bodies and spaces. Besides teaching on the GI405 Globalising Sexualities, I am interested in supervising dissertations in a range of areas, such as intersectionality, embodiment, affect, space, transnational feminism, queer diaspora/globalisation/migration, transgender studies, sex radicalism (e.g. polyamory, BDSM), sex work, critical race and whiteness, queer assimilation, sexual citizenship, ‘mixed race’ and migration.

I did my PhD in Sociology at London South Bank University. My thesis Thai Multiracialities in Britain and Germany: An Intersectional Study examined negotiations of gender, sexuality and belonging by young ‘mixed race’ people of Thai descent in Britain and Germany. It critically interrogated theories of transgression, hybridity, and ‘trafficking in women’, and reiterated the importance of a phenomenology of the body. My postdoctoral research was in the Media and Communications Studies at Goldsmiths College and was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. My current research is a media ethnography on the intersection of sexual/transgender citizenship and war and racism, which examines the role of sexual/transgender liberation discourse in the creation of affective public spheres.

Experience keywords: Intersectionality and multi-issue theorising, gender, sexuality and transgender studies, critical race, mixed race, the body, affect, media representations, transgression and its critiques, queer globalisation, sexual citizenship and 'war on terror'.

Publications

Monographs
Ambivalent Desires: Hybrid bodies and changing nationalisms, Aldershot: Ashgate (forthcoming).

Edited Journal

Haritaworn, Jin, Klesse, Christian and Lin, Chin-Ju (eds.) (2006), Special Issue on Polyamory, Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society 9(5), December 2006.

Journal Articles

(2008), ‘Masculinités queer, trans et post trans: les rejetons du féminisme’, Interview with Carine Bœuf, Morty Diamond, Jin Haritaworn, Vincent He-say, Jean Bobby Noble and Stephen Whittle, Cahiers du Genre No. 45, special issue edited by M.-H. Bourcier and P. Molinier, 85-124.

(2009), ‘“Caucasian and Thai make a good mix”: Gender, ambivalence and the “mixed-race” body,’ European Journal of Cultural Studies 12(1) (in publishing).

(2009), ‘Hybrid border crossers? Towards a radical socialisation of “Mixed Race”,’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 35(1): 59-78.

(2008), ‘Loyal Repetitions of the Nation: Gay Assimilation and the ‘War on Terror,’ DarkMatter, No. 3: Special Issue on Postcolonial Sexuality.

(2008), ‘Shifting Positionalities: Reflections on a Queer/Trans of Colour Methodology,’ Sociological Research Online 13(1).

(2007), ‘Beautiful beasts. Ambivalence and distinction in the gender identity negotiations of multiracialised women of Thai descent,’ Women’s Studies International Forum 30(5): 391-403.

(2007), ‘Internationalismus oder Imperialismus? Feministische und schwullesbische Stimmen im „Krieg gegen den Terror“,’ with Jennifer Petzen, Esra Erdem and Tamsila Tauqir, Special Celebratory Issue on International Feminisms, Frauensolidarität No. 100: 8-9.

(2006), ‘Poly/logue: A Critical Introduction to Polyamory,’ co-authored with Christian Klesse and Chin-ju Lin, Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society 9(5): 515-529.

(2005), ‘Am Anfang war Audre Lorde. Weißsein und Machtvermeidung in der queeren Ursprungsgeschichte,’ Femina Politica 14 (1): 23-36.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

(forthcoming) ‘Kiss-Ins, Demos, Drag: Sexuelle Spektakel von Kiez und Nation,’ in K. Ganz et.al. (eds.), Jenseits der Geschlechtergrenzen, Hamburg: Männerschwarm.

(2009), Haritaworn, Jin, Kuntsman, Adi and Petzen, Jen, ‘Sexualising the “War on Terror”’, in Sayyid, S. and Abdoolkarim, V. (eds.), Thinking through Islamophobia, New York: Hurst/Columbia Press.

(2008), ‘Queer Imperialism: The Role of Gender and Sexuality Discourses in the 'War on Terror',’ with Esra Erdem and Tamsila Tauqir, in E. Miyake and A. Kuntsman (eds.), Out of Place: Silences in Queerness/Raciality, York: Raw Nerve Books, p. 9-33.

(2008), ‘Intersectionality or simultaneity?! Conceptualising multiple oppressions,’ with Umut Erel, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, and Christian Klesse, in E. Miyake and A. Kuntsman (eds.), ibid, p. 203-230.

(2007), ‘Queer Mixed Race? Interrogating Homonormativity through Thai Interraciality,’ in G. Brown, K. Browne and J. Lim (eds.), Geographies of Sexualities: Theory, Practices and Politics, Aldershot: Ashgate, p. 101-112.

(2007), ‘Queer-Imperialismus: Eine Intervention in die Debatte über “muslimische Homophobie”,’ with Tamsila Tauqir and Esra Erdem, in K.N. Ha, al-Samarai, N.L. and Mysorekar, S. (eds.), Re/Visionen: Postkoloniale Perspektiven von People of Color auf Rassismus, Kulturpolitik und Widerstand in Deutschland, Münster: Unrast, p. 187-206.

(2007), ‘Intersektionalität oder Simultanität?! – Zur Verschränkung und Gleichzeitigkeit mehrfacher Machtverhältnisse – Eine Einführung,’ with Erel, Umut, Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Encarnación and Klesse, Christian, in J. Hartmann et al. (eds.), Heteronormativität. Empirische Studien zu Heterosexualität als gesellschaftliches Machtverhältnis, Wiesbaden: Vs Verlag, p. 239-250.

(2007), ‘Eine Queer of Colour Kritik am Beispiel von “Thailändischsein”,’ in J. Hartmann et al. (eds.), ibid, p. 269-290.

(2005), ‘“Der Menschheit treu”: Rassenverrat und Multi-Themenpolitik im derzeitigen Multikulturalismus,’ in M. Eggers et al. (eds.), Mythen, Masken und Subjekte: Kritische Weißseinsforschung in Deutschland, Berlin: Unrast, p. 158-171.

(2005), ‘Queerer als wir? Rassismus, Transphobie, Queer-Theory,’ in E. Yekani Haschemi and B. Michaelis (eds.), Queering The Humanities, Berlin: Querverlag, p. 216-238.

(2002), ‘Der ethnisierte Arbeitsplatz als Ort paradoxer Identifikation: Verhandlungen von Rassismus, Sexismus, Klassismus und kultureller Identität in einem „thailändischen“ Restaurant in Britannien,’ in M. Castro Varela and D. Clayton (eds.), Migration, Gender, Arbeitsmarkt. Neue Beitraege zu Frauen und Globalisierung, Koenigstein am Taunus: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, p. 154-186.

Requested Chapters and Articles

Prostitute Camp: Thai Dis/identifications with Sexual Stereotypes, in R. Gill and C. Scharff (eds.), Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity, Basingstoke: Palgrave (expected publication 2009).

Sociology and Multi-Issue Criticism, in M. Boatc, S. Costa, and M. Boatco et.al. (eds.) Decolonising European Sociology, Aldershot: Ashgate.

Beyond “Intersectionality” – Bringing politics back into critical sexuality studies, in Y. Taylor, S. Hines and M. Casey (eds.), Theorising Intersections: Sexual Advances, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (with Christian Klesse, Umut Erel and Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez).

Papers and Panels (selection)

(forthcoming), Markets and Sexualities, respondent to papers by Beverley Skeggs and Ara Wilson, University of Kent, 25 February 2009.

‘Queer Spectacles of War’, Still Out Of Place? Book launch and conference at Liverpool John Moores University, 7 November, 2008.

Kiss-Ins, Demos, Drag Queens: Sexual Citizenship in Times of War, Representing Islam, 5-6 September, 2008.

Terrorists in Burqas: Transgendering Imperialism, TransSomaTechnics Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 1-3 May, 2008.

Race and Sexuality Theorising in Times of War, Queer People of Color Summit, University of California Berkeley, April 26, 2008.

Loyal Repetitions of the Nation: Gay Assimilation and the ‘War on Terror’, invited paper at the Feminist Studies Department, University of California Santa Cruz, April 17, 2008.

Gay Liberation in the ‘War on Terror’: Beyond ‘Sexual Rights’ v. ‘Religious Rights’, at the Queer Studies Easter Symposium, Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City, 24-30 March, 2008.

Hybridity, Passing and Ambiguity, at the Creolising Europe Conference, Manchester University, 6-8 September, 2007.

Queer Mixed Race? Towards a Radical Socialisation of “Ambiguity” (individually authored). And: Intersectionality or simultaneity?! Conceptualising multiple oppressions (with Umut Erel, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez and Christian Klesse), Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality, Lancaster University, 24-25 March, 2006.

‘Feeling ambivalent: Mixed race and the “What are you?” encounter,’ paper presented at the British Sociological Association workshop Feeling emotional: ‘Race’, sexuality and making sense at Birkbeck College, London University, October 2004.

Book Reviews

Brennan, Denise (2004), What’s Love Got to do With It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic, Durham: Duke University Press. For Ethnic and Racial Studies 29(5): 1007-8 (2006).

Maira, Sunaina Marr (2002), Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City, Philadelphia: Temple. For Ethnic and Racial Studies, 26 (3): 575-6 (2003).

Calhoun, Cheshire (2000), Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet: Lesbian and Gay Displacement, New York: Oxford University Press. For Contemporary Politics, 7 (4): 348-50 (2001).

Other Publications

Mixed-Race Theory for Everyone, Mixedness and Mixing: New Perspectives on Mixed-Race Britons, E-Conference by the Commission for Racial Equality , re-published by Intermix,  (posted on 20 August, 2007, last accessed 13 August, 2008).

The Politics of Migrant Women’s Rights: Anti-racist Feminists Discuss Domestic Violence, Feminism and Multiculturalism, Next Genderation,  (with Esra Erdem and Jennifer Petzen) (2005).

Thai people in the UK, in P. Ruenkaew (ed.), Proceedings of the Thai Women in Europe Network Conference, Bielefeld: Thara (2002).

Contact details

Room B514, Tel.  0207 107 5301, Fax: 0207 955 6408

email: j.k.haritaworn@lse.ac.uk

Office hours:3.30-5.30Tuesdays

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