The social and relational life of Islamic State: a queer lens on gender, love and community-making under the caliphate.
This article harnesses a queer lens to explore the intimate and relational infrastructure of French members of Islamic State (IS) through first-hand interviews conducted in France. It calls for an empirically grounded queer scholarship in International Relations that challenges heteronormative frami...
| Publicado en: | International Affairs Vol. 102; no. 4; pp. 1353 - 1372 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jul2026
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