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Please see below for details for the First Seminar.
Please join us for the first seminar in our Gender/Sexuality/Culture interdisciplinary research seminar series at the University of Melbourne. Due to COVID-19, our first seminar of the series will be a livestream WEBINAR, with questions and discussions to follow, via Zoom.
Date: Friday 27th March
Time: 3:30pm-5:00pm AEDT (04:30 UTC)
Location: Online (live-stream), via Zoom. Link will be updated on the event page on Friday 27th March.
AFFECTIVE DOMOPOLITICS: Intimate Geographies of Security
Dr Gilbert Caluya, Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Deakin University
Abstract: William Walters coined the term ‘domopolitics’ to mark a new governmentality that redefines contemporary relationships between state, citizenship, and territory. If ‘political economy’ conceptualised governing the state as a household, domopolitics aspired to govern the state like a home. Domopolitics signalled a new governance of security that should be read in terms of its “diagrams of crime, vulnerability, threat, and abuse” that function around the image of the home (p. 243). Walter’s treatment of domopolitics focuses on the home as an image, figure, or trope that discursively shapes the contemporary governance of security but fails to take into account the histories and materialities of home, in which it is already immersed in power relations and violence. Drawing on queer, feminist and postcolonial accounts of the home, this paper seeks to redraw domopolitics as an analytical lens for a broader examination of security, culture and power. It reimagines the home, and thus domopolitics, as a materially, affectively and semiotically dense space that sutures senses of intimacy with senses of security.
About the speaker
Gilbert is a Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Deakin University. He researches and teaches on the intersections of race, gender and sexuality in contemporary cultural formations. Specifically, his research focuses on racial politics of intimacy across several cultural sites: sexual subcultures, cultural citizenship, everyday cultures of security and digital cultures. He was previously awarded a DECRA Fellowship to research intimate citizenship in postcolonial Australia and has recently been awarded an ARC Discovery Project to research digital citizenship and diasporic youth. He graduated with a PhD from the Gender and Cultural Studies Department at the University of Sydney in 2009 and was awarded the University Medal and the Gay and Lesbian Archives Thesis Prize.
For those joining from other timezones around the world, here is a handy tool to determine the correct time and date, with a few examples: https://time.is/1530_27_Mar_2020_in_Melbourne/Perth/London/Adelaide/SGT/New_York/Los_Angeles/Chicago/Vilnius/Apia
The Gender/Sexuality/Culture Interdisciplinary Research seminar series is jointly hosted by the Gender Studies and Cultural Studies programmes at the University of Melbourne, on the lands of the Wurundjeri people. We pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.
