Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Embracing queer curiosity -- Part I Complicities: Sexuality, coloniality and governance -- 1 A tale of two atonements -- 2 'Dangerous desires': Illegality, sexuality and the global governance of artisanal mining -- 3 The anatomy of neoliberal Internet governance: A queer critical political economy perspective -- Part II Possibilities: Rethinking violence, war and law -- 4 International law as violence: Competing absences of the other -- 5 The maintenance of international peace and security heteronormativity -- 6 In spite: Testifying to sexual and gender-based violence during the Khmer Rouge period -- Part III Alliances: Making queer lives matter -- 7 The (im)possibility of queering international human rights law -- 8 Homoglobalism: The emergence of global gay governance -- 9 Governing (trans)parenthood: The tenacious hold of biological connection and heterosexuality -- Part IV Risks: Troubling statehood, sovereignty and its borders -- 10 Queer border crossers: Pragmatic complicities, indiscretions and subversions -- 11 Queering international law's stories of origin: Hospitality and homophobia -- 12 Resisting the heteronormative imaginary of the nation-state: Rethinking kinship and border protection -- Bibliography -- Index