The next event in the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)’s book presentation series is Dr Pavan Mano’s Straight Nation: Heteronormativity and Other Exigencies of Postcolonial Nationalism. The event will feature a conversation between Pavan Mano and A. Haziz-Ginsberg (King’s College London) followed by an audience Q&A. Join us in person at King’s College London, or online (Facebook or YouTube). Attendance is free but please register here if you’re joining in-person.

About the book

Straight Nation dissects the intricacies of nationalism in postcolonial Singapore and its entanglements with the governance of sexuality. Rejecting the romanticization of the nation as a pure bastion of belonging, the book theorizes nationalism as a force obsessed with continually generating threats, and excavates the alliance it has struck up with heteronormativity to produce a series of minoritized figures that contemporary identity claims can neither handle nor dispel.