Cyril Ghosh
Biographic Data
| ID | 4122781 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cyril Ghosh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cyril |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghosh |
| SIGNATURE | GHOSH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wagner College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2313-4074 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Temporary Immigration, Exploitation, and Social Capital
Many countries of the Global North depend on the economic benefits of migration even as their citizens and leaders evince ever more open opposition to immigrants settling and becoming citizens. One result of this misalignment of interests and goals has been the proliferation of visa statuses that commit their bearers to not seeking permanent settlement or citizenship and offer them very few rights. Many scholars have debated whether and in which …
Dancing around gender expression and sex talk
In this article, I argue that the US Citizenship and Immigration Services’ current guidelines for LGBTQ+ asylum adjudication are both underinclusive and improperly restrictive. They are underinclusive because they are insufficiently attentive to LGBTQ+ applicants’ right to protection from persecution on the basis of gender expression. They also flatten the concept of gender identity by conflating it with transgender identity, thus reconsolidating…
Implicit Bias, Microaggression, and Bullying
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De-moralizing gay rights
I clarify, among other things, why my deployment of the term 'queer' is narrow, and at times, succumbs to law’s ‘legibility imperative’; why the concept of gay culture(s) I engage with is/are US-centric; and that I am not opposed to a more ‘complete’ dialectical exercise than the one I have presented in my discussion of radical theory creep. In addition, in response to one of my critics, I offer some tentative remarks about the task of stipulatin…
De-Moralizing Gay Rights – an overview
In this overview, I begin by situating De-Moralizing Gay Rights within the field of queer studies/queer theory. I then delineate the book’s principal arguments. The book critically interrogates three sets of distortions in 21st century public discourse on LGBT+ rights in the United States. The first relates to the critique of pinkwashing, often advanced by scholars who claim to be proponents of a radical politics. I suggest that this critique som…
Books by Our Readers
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Marriage Equality and the Injunction to Assimilate
This article offers a critique of the conception of the good intimate life in Justice Kennedy's majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015). In so doing, it draws upon insights from both queer theory and liberal theory, each of which repudiates the endorsement of any particular conception of the good life. Queer theorists point out the dangers of normifying any particular way of life because it demeans and marginalizes those who will not, or …
The Politics of the American Dream
The Politics of the American Dream analyzes the role of the 'American Dream' in contemporary American political culture. Utilizing analytic political theory, Ghosh creates a unique picture of Dream Po
Marriage Equality and the Injunction to Assimilate
This article offers a critique of the conception of the good intimate life in Justice Kennedy's majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015). In so doing, it draws upon insights from both queer theory and liberal theory, each of which repudiates the endorsement of any particular conception of the good life. Queer theorists point out the dangers of normifying any particular way of life because it demeans and marginalizes those who will not, or …
Implicit Bias, Microaggression, and Bullying
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Politics of the American Dream
The Politics of the American Dream analyzes the role of the 'American Dream' in contemporary American political culture. Utilizing analytic political theory, Ghosh creates a unique picture of Dream Po
Marriage Equality and the Injunction to Assimilate
This article offers a critique of the conception of the good intimate life in Justice Kennedy's majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015). In so doing, it draws upon insights from both queer theory and liberal theory, each of which repudiates the endorsement of any particular conception of the good life. Queer theorists point out the dangers of normifying any particular way of life because it demeans and marginalizes those who will not, or …
De-moralizing gay rights
I clarify, among other things, why my deployment of the term 'queer' is narrow, and at times, succumbs to law’s ‘legibility imperative’; why the concept of gay culture(s) I engage with is/are US-centric; and that I am not opposed to a more ‘complete’ dialectical exercise than the one I have presented in my discussion of radical theory creep. In addition, in response to one of my critics, I offer some tentative remarks about the task of stipulatin…
De-Moralizing Gay Rights – an overview
In this overview, I begin by situating De-Moralizing Gay Rights within the field of queer studies/queer theory. I then delineate the book’s principal arguments. The book critically interrogates three sets of distortions in 21st century public discourse on LGBT+ rights in the United States. The first relates to the critique of pinkwashing, often advanced by scholars who claim to be proponents of a radical politics. I suggest that this critique som…
Books by Our Readers
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Implicit Bias, Microaggression, and Bullying
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Dancing around gender expression and sex talk
In this article, I argue that the US Citizenship and Immigration Services’ current guidelines for LGBTQ+ asylum adjudication are both underinclusive and improperly restrictive. They are underinclusive because they are insufficiently attentive to LGBTQ+ applicants’ right to protection from persecution on the basis of gender expression. They also flatten the concept of gender identity by conflating it with transgender identity, thus reconsolidating…
Temporary Immigration, Exploitation, and Social Capital
Many countries of the Global North depend on the economic benefits of migration even as their citizens and leaders evince ever more open opposition to immigrants settling and becoming citizens. One result of this misalignment of interests and goals has been the proliferation of visa statuses that commit their bearers to not seeking permanent settlement or citizenship and offer them very few rights. Many scholars have debated whether and in which …
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Citizenship (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)