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wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sita Balani, &#039;Zombie Heteronormativity: Social Reproduction and the Far Right&#039;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1185222702?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-border-color has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-da604d14 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-color:#752121;border-width:1px;border-top-left-radius:15px;border-top-right-radius:15px;border-bottom-left-radius:15px;border-bottom-right-radius:15px;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">Despite the ascendance of a far-right \u2018family values\u2019 agenda which seeks to retrench fixed gender roles and the nuclear family, late capitalist social relations can no longer effectively compel these social forms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><strong><strong>This presentation on\u00a0Zombie\u00a0Heteronormativity explores the other methods for organising social reproduction that are emerging with the tacit endorsement of the far right, despite their putative investment in the family.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">Speakers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><strong>Sita&nbsp;Balani<\/strong>&nbsp;is a Senior Lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of&nbsp;<em>Deadly and Slick: Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race<\/em>&nbsp;(Verso, 2023) and co-author of&nbsp;<em>Empire\u2019s Endgame: Racism and the British State<\/em>&nbsp;(Pluto, 2021). She has published in&nbsp;<em>Vice<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Tribune<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The White Review<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Salvage<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Five Dials<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Wasafiri.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><strong>Natalia Cecire<\/strong>\u00a0is Associate Professor in English &amp; American Literature at the University of Sussex. Her book\u00a0<em>Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge<\/em>\u00a0was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2019. She is a member of the steering committee for the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence and Director of the Centre for American Studies (2024-26).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 13, 2026 By Dr Sita Balani with a response from Dr Natalia Cecire Despite the ascendance of a far-right \u2018family values\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1354","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1354\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/statesofculturalanalysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}