Normative Legitimacy and Normative Dilemmas: Postcolonial Interventions

Dhawan, Nikita; Fink, Elisabeth; Leinius, Johanna; Mageza-Barthel, Rirhandu

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“…As Ayoub (2015, p. 295) explains, LGBTIQ law and policies "have become symbolic of political modernity", while LGBTIQ participants employed "Europeanness" as a marker of power and progress in previous research as well (e.g., Szulc 2022). Furthermore, the notions and concepts around which identities crystallize, determine the nature that LGBTIQ politics will have, as well as their appeal and success (Binnie 2015(Binnie , 2016Dhawan et al 2016). As the interview excerpts above show, albeit strategically in some instances, both Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots couch LGBTIQ politics not simply in the language of "Europe", but in a discourse of ethnic antagonism according to which reaching "modernity" before the ethnic "other" is the main objective.…”

Section: Acclamation Of Transnational Lgbtiq Politicsmentioning

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Queer in Cyprus? The LGBTIQ Movement, Normativity, and Resistance in a Changing (Trans)national Landscape

Kamenou

2023

Social Sciences

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The literature on lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) politics has established the interplay between domestic and transnational norms and political tactics. However, knowledge about how local LGBTIQ activists understand, negotiate, and employ transnational LGBTIQ campaigns and tactics over time remains limited. This article builds on literature on the dynamics between national and transnational LGBTIQ politics. Based on interviews with Cypriot LGBTIQ activists, it examines how they adapt their perceptions and employments of LGBTIQ activism and politics when the transnational LGBTIQ movement interacts with local norms around gender and sexuality, and what the impact of this interaction is on the boundaries of LGBTIQ in-group exclusion and inclusion. The analysis of the interview material identifies three approaches toward transnational LGBTIQ politics that participants express over time: Ambivalence toward, acclamation of, and resistance toward transnational LGBTIQ politics. I argue that these different approaches show that the dynamics between national and transnational LGBTIQ activism and politics are not static and that the relationship between “norm” and “queer” is both messy and productive. I further argue that activists’ understandings, negotiations, and employments of transnational LGBTIQ campaigns and tactics in contentious contexts may reinforce and/or challenge national LGBTIQ politics’ normativization and queer emancipatory politics. Therefore, beyond contributing to discussions about the national–transnational relationship in LGBTIQ politics, the article demonstrates the importance of studying LGBTIQ activists’ views for gaining a well-rounded understanding of this issue.

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Section: Acclamation Of Transnational Lgbtiq Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Queer in Cyprus? The LGBTIQ Movement, Normativity, and Resistance in a Changing (Trans)national Landscape

Kamenou

2023

Social Sciences

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“…Popularized by Marxist scholar Antonio Gramsci and later often used in Foucauldian accounts of discursive power, hegemony is a system of hierarchical power based on manufacturing a kind of ‘common sense’. Unlike direct domination or coercion, hegemony works via particular hierarchies embedded in dominant ideas, values, norms, beliefs, and prejudices that are produced as ‘normal’ through ‘societal expectation, peer pressure, propriety and at times politics of shame’ (Dhawan et al, 2016: 3). Those whose behaviour or characteristics fit the norm generally remain unaware of such hegemonic structures.…”

Section: Privilege As Analytic Tool: Hegemony and Privilegementioning

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“…Those whose behaviour or characteristics fit the norm generally remain unaware of such hegemonic structures. 4 Conversely, those who deviate from such norms, which are often shifting and changing shape, are subjected to social punishments and control (Dhawan et al, 2016: 3–4). In this way, norms, habits, and symbols play a vital part in justifying violence, exploitation, and marginalization.…”

Section: Privilege As Analytic Tool: Hegemony and Privilegementioning

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Religion, secularity, culture? Investigating Christian privilege in Western Europe

Lauwers

2022

Ethnicities

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Scholarship on religious inequality in Europe has focused mainly on the position of religious minorities, primarily Jews and Muslims. Investigations into Islamophobia, antisemitism, and other forms of discrimination and oppression, however, are merely one side of the coin. This article draws attention to Christian privilege as a different, but related phenomenon. It understands ‘privilege’ to be part of the study of hegemony, as the asymmetrical counterpart of structural oppression. The article situates Christian privilege within secular Christian hegemony in Western Europe and explores its relation to racial and religious exclusion. It identifies three different types of Christian privilege and outlines a framework for normatively evaluating them.

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The elephant in the med: Postcoloniality and European security assistance practices

Tholens

Ruffa

2023

Mediterranean Politics

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Normative Legitimacy and Normative Dilemmas: Postcolonial Interventions

Cited by 3 publications

References 29 publications

Queer in Cyprus? The LGBTIQ Movement, Normativity, and Resistance in a Changing (Trans)national Landscape

Queer in Cyprus? The LGBTIQ Movement, Normativity, and Resistance in a Changing (Trans)national Landscape

Religion, secularity, culture? Investigating Christian privilege in Western Europe

The elephant in the med: Postcoloniality and European security assistance practices

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