Introduction

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.13169/jofstudindentleg.2.2.0001
• Published date: 22 December 2022
• Date: 22 December 2022
• Pages: 1-5
• Author: Amar Wahab

Journal of Indentureship 2.2 December 2022

Introduction

Queer trajectories of gender and sex/uality

Amar Wahab

Amar Wahab is professor of Gender and Sexuality in the School of

Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University, Canada.

This issue’s collection continues the critical analytical project of

queering indentureship explored in the previous issue. The con-

tributions focus on questions around rethinking intimate partner

violence within queer relationships, mapping genealogies of gen-

der queer performativities across transcolonial circuits of

indenture and offering fabulations of what might constitute a

queer archive of indentureship, among others. The analyses

reveal the violent and disciplinary power/knowledge effects of the

colonial legacies of the sex/gender/sexuality discourse, specifi-

cally configured within the context of indentureship, yet

connected to the violences of slavery and heteromasculinist pro-

jects of postcolonial nation-making. As in the previous volume,

these critical explorations of indentureship and its legacies hold

significant import for radical and generative provocations of

mainstream queer and feminist studies (even within the Global

South). In fact, it is hoped that both issues of Volume 2 will help

readers appreciate that the project of queering indentureship is

one of broadening a ‘problem space’ (Scott 1999) that multiplies

the possibilities for sustained critical inquiry about gender and

sex/uality in the context of distinct yet entangled regimes of

indentureship.

DOI:10.13169/jofstudindentleg.2.2.0001