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  • Political Science
  • Sociology
  • Gender Studies

Background:

  • Neoliberalism is characterized as an anti-social political rationality demanding anti-democratic and violent statehood.
  • Neoliberalism paradoxically relies on consensus, partly achieved through flexible and pluralized sexual politics.
  • Existing concepts of heteronormativity require re-evaluation in light of neoliberal strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze how neoliberalism utilizes sexual politics to legitimize its anti-democratic and violent statehood.
  • To demonstrate that the flexibilization of sexuality is a constitutive element of neoliberal governmentality.
  • To propose a new conceptual framework, recasting heteronormativity as heteronormalization.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative analysis of neoliberal political rationality.
  • Case study focusing on sexual politics in Berlin.
  • Conceptual analysis and theoretical development.

Main Results:

  • The flexibilization of sexuality is integral to neoliberal governmentality, not merely a byproduct.
  • Neoliberalism employs promises of sexual tolerance, flexibility, and pluralism to mask its anti-social, anti-democratic, and violent agenda.
  • The concept of heteronormativity should be understood as an active process of 'heteronormalization' within neoliberalism.

Conclusions:

  • Neoliberalism's consensus-building relies heavily on managing and instrumentalizing sexual politics.
  • The study reveals the paradoxical relationship between neoliberal governance, sexual freedom, and democratic deficits.
  • Recasting heteronormativity as heteronormalization offers a critical lens for understanding contemporary neoliberal statecraft.