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SUMMARY:Violent Affections: The Governance of Queer Sexuality in Russia
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIn-person | March 18\, 2024 | 11:00AM - 1:00PM\n\n\n\
 nThis event will take place in-person at Room 108N\, North House\, 1 Devon
 shire Place\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 3K7\n\n\n\nThis presentation discusses so
 cial and political effects of the regulation of queer sexuality\, paying p
 articular attention to the case of Russia where the “gay propaganda” l
 aw (2013) is but one example of instrumentalization of homophobia. First\,
  I set out intellectual tasks for what I call a “queerer criminology”.
  Since queer criminology simply puts LGBTQ+ subjects at the centre of its 
 inquiry\, it lacks ambition of other queer projects which claim to be tran
 sgressive and transformative. I argue for the next step to make this branc
 h of criminology queerer. Second\, I offer my analysis of more than 300 co
 urt rulings of anti-queer violence in Russia on which my book Violent Affe
 ctions is based. In this analysis I reveal currents of affectionate power 
 relations that manipulate people’s emotions for political gains and cont
 rol. Hence\, third\, I aim to find frameworks which would enrich our under
 standing of crime\, Russian politics\, and the regulation of sexuality. My
  ultimate example deals with the amendment of the “gay propaganda” law
  in 2022 as a means of war effort in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukr
 aine.\n\nAlexander Sasha Kondakov\, PhD\, is an assistant professor at the
  School of Sociology\, University College Dublin\, Ireland. His truly inte
 rnational experience includes holding positions in the University of Helsi
 nki in Finland\, European University at St. Petersburg Russia\, Woodrow Wi
 lson Center for Scholars in Washington DC\, and the University of Wisconsi
 n-Madison in the United States. Kondakov’s work is primarily focused on 
 law and queer sexualities. His latest research on anti-queer violence conc
 luded with an open-access book ‘Violent Affections: Queer sexuality\, te
 chniques of power\, and law in Russia’.\n\n\n\n\nCo-Sponsor: Centre for 
 European\, Russian\, and Eurasian Studies Co-Sponsor: Bonham Centre for Se
 xual Diversity Studie\n
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