Minwoo Jung

As a sociologist specializing in globalization, gender, sexuality, and social transformation, I am working on a book titled Queer Geopolitics. This book theorizes a geopolitical approach to understanding how marginalized communities creatively build and practice rights within a globalized world. I argue that geopolitical circumstances—such as a state’s historical trajectory, the global economy, and world politics—are crucial to sexuality politics. Various geopolitical moments shape state regulation of rights and the conditions for political activism. By examining how LGBTQ activists define and make rights meaningful within their distinct geopolitical contexts, Queer Geopolitics offers a unique comparative account of how global politics shape the lives and struggles of marginalized communities. The book draws on multi-year global ethnography from Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea, which share histories of colonialism, economic development under authoritarianism, and the challenge of statehood amid U.S.-China tensions.

 Website: https://www.luc.edu/sociology/faculty/profiles/minwoojungphd.shtml