Diversity Issues in the USA: Transnational Perspectives on the 2024 Presidental Elections

With bans on reproductive rights and access to healthcare, with censorship in schools and universities, and the instrumentalization of rights rhetoric itself, diversity issues stand at the heart of the primary and general elections in the United States. The contributors examine how the American elections will influence diversity issues in the United States and elsewhere, considering reproductive and immigration rights, planetary justice, epistemic and physical violence against LGBTQIA+ people as well as efforts to abet this violence. In this way they highlight the symbolic and political weight of the 2024 U.S. elections as a watershed moment for citizens of the world.

Melanie Kreitler is a research associate at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen in the department of English and American literary, cultural, and media studies. Her research explores popular culture’s influence on public perceptions of marginalized groups and focuses particularly on mental illness and LGBTQ+ communities. She has published on complex films and television shows, video games, and the intersections of medical and media discourses.
Greta Olson is a professor of English and American literary and cultural studies and director of the Center for Media and Interactivity at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.