Richardson Diane
Newcastle University, UK.
Sociology. 2017 Apr;51(2):208-224. doi: 10.1177/0038038515609024. Epub 2016 Sep 30.
Over the last two decades sexuality has emerged as a key theme in debates about citizenship, leading to the development of the concept of sexual citizenship. This article reviews this literature and identifies four main areas of critical framing: work that contests the significance of sexuality to citizenship; critiques that focus on the possibilities and limitations of mobilising the language of citizenship in sexual politics; analyses of sexual citizenship in relation to nationalisms and border making; and literature that critically examines western constructions of sexuality and sexual politics underpinning understandings of sexual citizenship. In order to progress the field theoretically, the article seeks to extend critiques of sexual citizenship focusing on two key aspects of its construction: the sexual citizen-subject and spaces of sexual citizenship. It argues for a critical rethink that encompasses a de-centring of a 'western-centric' focus in order to advance understandings of how sexual citizenship operates both in the Global North and South.
在过去二十年里，性取向已成为有关公民身份辩论中的一个关键主题，从而推动了性公民身份概念的发展。本文回顾了这方面的文献，并确定了批判性框架的四个主要领域：对性取向之于公民身份的重要性提出质疑的研究；聚焦于在性政治中运用公民身份语言的可能性与局限性的批评；关于性公民身份与民族主义及边境构建关系的分析；以及批判性审视支撑性公民身份理解的西方性取向和性政治建构的文献。为了在理论上推动该领域的发展，本文试图扩展对性公民身份的批评，重点关注其建构的两个关键方面：性公民主体和性公民身份空间。文章主张进行批判性反思，包括将“以西方为中心”的关注点去中心化，以增进对性公民身份在全球北方和南方如何运作的理解。
