(Un)liveabilities: Homonationalism and transnational adoption

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(Un)liveabilities: Homonationalism and transnational adoption. / Petersen, Michael Nebeling; Myong, Lene.

In: Sexualities, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2015, p. 329-345.

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Harvard

Petersen, MN & Myong, L 2015, '(Un)liveabilities: Homonationalism and transnational adoption', Sexualities, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 329-345. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460714544809

APA

Petersen, M. N., & Myong, L. (2015). (Un)liveabilities: Homonationalism and transnational adoption. Sexualities, 18(3), 329-345. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460714544809

Vancouver

Petersen MN, Myong L. (Un)liveabilities: Homonationalism and transnational adoption. Sexualities. 2015;18(3):329-345. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460714544809

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Petersen, Michael Nebeling ; Myong, Lene. / (Un)liveabilities: Homonationalism and transnational adoption. In: Sexualities. 2015 ; Vol. 18, No. 3. pp. 329-345.

Bibtex

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abstract = "Rosa Morena tells a story about kinship in which a white homosexual Danish man adopts a child born to a black poor Brazilian woman. Using a theoretical framework of biopolitics and affective labour the article highlights how the male homosexual figure is being cast as heteronormative and white in order to become intelligible as a parent and the bearer of liveable kinship. The casting rests on the affective and reproductive labour of the birth mother who is portrayed as an unsuitable parent through a colonial discourse steeped in sexualized and racialized imagery. A specific distribution of affect fixates and relegates the birth mother to a state of living dead, and thus she becomes the bearer of an unliveable kinship.",
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