Dr. Mackie will discuss the necessity of placing gender and sexuality in a transnational frame, and survey other local issues in gender and sexuality in East Asia. She will draw on her experience in co-editing “The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia” (Routledge 2015) and “Rethinking Sexual Citizenship: Asia-Pacific Perspectives,” (2017) a special issue of the journal, Sexualities.
Vera Mackie is Senior Professor of Asian and International Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She is also the Director of the Center for Critical Human Rights Research, which advocates for human rights and security through a collaborative and community-engaged research approach. Read more.
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