LGBT Rights in Japan
In: Peace review: peace, security & global change, Band 17, Heft 2-3, S. 143-148
ISSN: 1469-9982
In: Peace review: peace, security & global change, Band 17, Heft 2-3, S. 143-148
ISSN: 1469-9982
In: Peace review: the international quarterly of world peace, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 143-148
ISSN: 1040-2659
In: Sur Journal, Band 6, Heft 11
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In: Law and Society Review, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 151
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In: East European politics and societies: EEPS, Band 25, Heft 4, S. 834-851
ISSN: 1533-8371
This article analyses from an anthropological perspective the 2010 Belgrade Pride Parade, the first state-supported Parade in Serbia, as a part of the building of a democratic and European Serbian nation. In their discursive framing of the Parade and making claims on the state to take it under its auspices, the organising NGOs bound the event to the EU integration process of Serbia. This policy link helped them forge a political alliance with the state, but was also instrumentalised by the government to avoid an ideological conflict with the opponents of the Parade. Owing to the perception of the alliance as "elitist" and to the militarised and depoliticised nature of the state's involvement, the event materially actualised and reified rather than transcended the enduring conflict of liberal and collectivist citizenship visions in Serbia. The article argues that the overall discourse of the government on Europeanisation is informed by the same top-down and instrumental logic. However, members of civil society develop political subjectivities which demand active citizen participation and critically engage with the discourse to restore its democratising potential. Similarly, the emerging "populist" politics of LGBT rights, illustrated by the pop singer Jelena Karleusa's participation in the domestic debate, are better placed to face the legacies of socialist and ethnonationalist nation-building than the human rights and Europeanisation approaches. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright the American Council of Learned Societies.]
In: Chicago-Kent Law Review, Band 84
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In: East European politics and societies: EEPS, Band 25, Heft 4, S. 834-851
ISSN: 1533-8371
This article analyses from an anthropological perspective the 2010 Belgrade Pride Parade, the first state-supported Parade in Serbia, as a part of the building of a democratic and European Serbian nation. In their discursive framing of the Parade and making claims on the state to take it under its auspices, the organising NGOs bound the event to the EU integration process of Serbia. This policy link helped them forge a political alliance with the state, but was also instrumentalised by the government to avoid an ideological conflict with the opponents of the Parade. Owing to the perception of the alliance as "elitist" and to the militarised and depoliticised nature of the state's involvement, the event materially actualised and reified rather than transcended the enduring conflict of liberal and collectivist citizenship visions in Serbia. The article argues that the overall discourse of the government on Europeanisation is informed by the same top-down and instrumental logic. However, members of civil society develop political subjectivities which demand active citizen participation and critically engage with the discourse to restore its democratising potential. Similarly, the emerging "populist" politics of LGBT rights, illustrated by the pop singer Jelena Karleuša's participation in the domestic debate, are better placed to face the legacies of socialist and ethnonationalist nation-building than the human rights and Europeanisation approaches.
In: Carlos A. Ball, FROM THE CLOSET TO THE COURTROOM: FIVE LGBT RIGHTS LAWSUITS THAT HAVE CHANGED OUR NATION, Beacon Press, Forthcoming
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In: Fordham International Law Journal, Javaid Rehman & Eleni Polymenopoulou, Is Green a Part of the Rainbow? Sharia, Homosexuality and LGBT Rights in the Muslim World (Aug. 2013, Forthcoming)
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In: Law and Sexuality, Band 19, S. 160
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In: East European politics and societies and cultures: EEPS, Band 25, Heft 4, S. 834-852
ISSN: 0888-3254
This dissertation aimed at examining the achievements of the Federal Government of Brazil for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals (LGBT), comparing the public policies established by the administrations of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-2002) and Lula (2003-2010) to that community. This study particularly focused on investigating the factors responsible for the progressive reforms made by those governments in order to recognize the human rights of LBGTs in Brazil, and analyzing the relationship between the state and the LGBT Movement, the roles played and discourses employed by each of these actors in those reforms. Attention was also given to the social, economic and political conjuncture of the country, as well as the structures within the government and potential international and transnational influences. The research methods employed were Content Analysis and Discourse Analysis and the objects of my analyses were the following policies: Programa Nacional DST/AIDS, Programa Nacional de Direitos Humanos I, II and III, Programa Brasil sem Homofobia and the Plano Nacional LGBT. The data used were the actual content of those policies, official reports, speeches and articles, existing literature on the topic, as well as interviews performed by me and another author with LGBT activists and government officials. My study revealed that these activists introduced a rights-based discourse in their state-directed strategies which heavily influenced the government's response to the AIDS crisis, with the incorporation of activists as executors of state policies. As a result of the steady engagement between these two actors, activists were able to expand the scope of the government's actions from the health domain to the human rights field. Ultimately, the government turned activists into policy makers and progressively recognized LGBT rights in the public policy domain through discourses of human rights and full citizenship.
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In: APSA 2012 Annual Meeting Paper
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In: Queer action
Intro -- From the Closet to the Courtroom -- Contents -- A Note from the Series Editor -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Family -- Chapter 2: Harassment -- Chapter 3: Discrimination -- Chapter 4: Marriage -- Chapter 5: Sex -- Conclusion -- Where Are They Now? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.