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Notes on contributor
Colin Wight is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Sydney. His research explores the struggles surrounding the scientific nature of political science. He has also published work on terrorism, the state, and political violence. He was Editor in Chief of the European Journal of International Relations from 2008–2013. Publications include Agents, Structures and International Relations: Politics as Ontology (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and Rethinking Terrorism: Terrorism, Violence and and the State (Palgrave, London, 2015).
Notes
1. I prefer the acronym LGBTQI as it is more inclusive and highlights the category of ‘intersex’, a group that face possibly some of the most difficult issues in terms of social integration across most societies—although there are countries such as Samoa, where the fa’afafine (a third sex) are accepted as normal (Besnier Citation1994). However, in acknowledgement of Altman and Symons’ usage, I write it as LGBT(QI).