Insider activists: The fraught possibilities of LGBT activisms from within

Browne, Kath; Bakshi, Leela

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.10.013

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“…Geographic scholarship critically interrogating the concept of rights maintains these foci on the particularities of place, the spatialities of power and difference, and the scalar interplay between universal ideals, the territoriality of the state, and the experiences of individual bodies. This work extends into areas such as LGBTQ 1 rights (Browne and Bakshi, ; Hubbard, ), women's rights (Burgess, ; Rosen and Yoon, ), rights to water (Mirosa and Harris, ; Morinville and Rodina, ; Perera, ), and migrant and refugee rights (Bastia, Piper, and Carrón, ; Delgado Wise, ; Fiddian‐Qasmiyeh, ; Hyndman and Giles, ; Mountz, ; Silvey, ). These divergent studies are connected by a common focus on the partial and contested utility of human rights claims as a means of realizing social justice.…”

Section: Geography and Human Rightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Geographies of Human Rights: Mapping Responsibility

Laliberté

2015

Geography Compass

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Geography has much to contribute to the critical study of human rights. To date, geographic scholarship has tended to follow international trends in connecting the rights discourse to social and environmental justice agendas. Human rights, in these contexts, are assumed to be part of emancipatory politics. It is in challenging this assumption that I suggest critical geographic inquiry has more to offer. In this paper, I review critical geographic literature that explicitly focuses on the spatial processes of human rights around the world. Through this review, I identify a gap in the literature regarding the negotiations of responsibility that shape human rights discourses and practices. I draw on feminist and postcolonial theories of responsibility to highlight geography's potential for examining such negotiations to illuminate how responsibility is claimed, denied, ascribed, enacted, and avoided. Ultimately, I suggest mapping negotiations of responsibility as they cross scales, traverse space, and shape place will provide us with new and evocative lenses for critiquing the place of human rights within an emancipatory politics.

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Section: Geography and Human Rightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Geographies of Human Rights: Mapping Responsibility

Laliberté

2015

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“…That is, there are LGBT groups that follow a consumptive and modern lifestyle, some still look conservative. However, the most LGBT groups show a consumptive modern lifestyle (Cahill et al, 2003;Browne & Bakshi, 2013;Kelly-Campbell & Atcherson, 2012).…”

Section: The Behavior and Lifestyle Of The Lgbt People In Indonesiamentioning

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Lifestyle of LGBT community in Pancasila legal country

Sujana

Mardika

Ujiyanti

2019

IRJMIS

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The existence of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) communities in Indonesia is still a pro and contra. There are people who support the LGBT community as a social phenomenon, but there are also people who cannot yet accept the LGBT Community. Indonesia as a rule of law deserves to protect the entire Indonesian people and the entire bloodshed of Indonesia. But in reality, LGBT people still feel discriminatory treatment and tend to be marginalized groups in society. This paper seeks to understand behavior, lifestyle, and legal protection for LGBT communities in the State of Pancasila law. The approach used is interdisciplinary which combines methods of empirical legal research and cultural studies. The target of field studies reaches LGBT communities in the western, central, and eastern parts of Indonesia. The results of the study show that the behavior of the LGBT community is closed and inclusive, with a tendency to follow a modern trend. In the perspective of the State of Pancasila law, the LGBT community gets legal protection just like citizens in general, except in similar marriages.

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“…In considering permissible progress, I follow Monk (2011) in unravelling the politics of progress surrounding supposed 'inclusion' of sexual minoritiesparticularly through legal recognition of same-sex couples and their familiesin a world that is now supposedly 'won' (Weeks, 2007; see Browne and Bakshi, 2013). In doing so, I draw on Monk's notion of speakability as constituted through the Foucauldian concept of 'conditions of possibility' (discursive frameworks of knowledge grounded in and made possible by a particular historical epoch; Foucault, 1980) to 'reveal the conditionality of what, on the surface, appears to be an inclusive progressive politics' (Monk, 2011: 201; italics in original).…”

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Permissible progress: Sexual(ities that) progress in and beyond English primary schools

Hall

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This paper examines what is permissible sexual progress in English primary schools by exploring the possibilities – but also the limitations – of the introduction of familial sexualities. In recent years, Stonewall (a prominent and politically mainstream Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans charity) have increasingly utilised ‘the family’ as a ‘child-friendly’ topic to encourage primary educators to broach same-sex relationships by incorporating their ‘inclusive’ range of Different Families resources into lessons. This strategic manoeuvre emerges in a socio-political and spatiotemporal context dominated by neoliberal sexual politics and follows ‘moral panics’ surrounding queer progressive politics inspired initiatives, most notably No Outsiders (2006–2009) which previously unsettled institutionalised discourses of ‘childhood (sexual) innocence’ in pursuing radical, but arguably necessary approaches for disrupting and undoing heteronormativity. In spite of this, Stonewall’s Different Families, Same Love initiative is now the dominant approach for introducing lesbian and gay sexualities in English primary schools; yet, little is known about how primary-aged children respond to this intervention. Focusing on a leading exponent of Stonewall’s initiative, I explore 4–9 year olds dis/engagements with gay and lesbian sexualities when introduced in a familial context. Reflecting on mixed ethnographic and focus group data, I question not only which gay and lesbian sexualities ‘progress’ in contemporary English primary schools, but also how well. To this end, recommendations are made for improving families’ curricula without losing sight of the limits of this approach.

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Insider activists: The fraught possibilities of LGBT activisms from within

Cited by 39 publications

References 33 publications

Geographies of Human Rights: Mapping Responsibility

Geographies of Human Rights: Mapping Responsibility

Lifestyle of LGBT community in Pancasila legal country

Permissible progress: Sexual(ities that) progress in and beyond English primary schools

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