Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-276) and index.

A tale of two atonements / Rahul Rao -- "Dangerous desires" : illegality, sexuality and the global governance of artisanal mining / Doris Buss and Blair Rutherford -- The anatomy of neoliberal Internet governance : a queer critical political economy perspective / Monika Zalnierute -- International law as violence : competing absences of the other / Vanja Hamziâc -- The maintenance of (international peace and security) heteronormativity / Tamsin Philippa Paige -- In spite : testifying to sexual and gender-based violence during the Khmer Rouge period / Maria Elander -- The (im)possibility of queering international human rights law / Ratna Kapur -- Homoglobalism : the emergence of global gay governance / Aeyal Gross -- Governing (trans)parenthood : the tenacious hold of biological connections and heterosexuality / Anniken Sørlie -- Queer border crossers : pragmatic complicities, indiscretions and subversions / Bina Fernandez -- Queering international law's stories of origin : hospitality and homophobia / Nan Seuffert -- Resisting the heteronormative imaginary of the nation-state : rethinking kinship and border protection / Dianne Otto.