The illiberal east: the gender and sexuality of the imagined geography of Eurasia in Armenia

Shirinian, Tamar

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2020.1762545

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“…This gap in the literature is striking, especially as a competing Russian gender order gains traction in the region, further complicating the symbolic association between LGBT+ rights and 'Europe' (Ryabov and Ryabova 2014;Foxall 2019;Shirinian 2020). As I will show, the case of Georgia provides useful insights into the effects EU LGBT+ equality interventions produce in locales constituted as in-between two competing centres' 'spheres of influence' (Browning and Christou 2010;Cadier 2019).…”

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“…In 2013, this was used as a geopolitical argument to delegitimise Ukraine's willingness to associate with the EU (Ryabov and Ryabova 2014). Thus, articulations of value-based dichotomies in relation to LGBT+ equality crystallised around new geopolitical signifiers: a "geo-normative debate" emerged in the 'shared neighbourhood' (Verpoest 2018), which linked attitudes to homosexuality with pre-existing discourses related to a country's foreign policy orientation and participation in (competing) geopolitical alliancesthe EaP and the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union (Shevtsova 2020;Shirinian, 2020). This resulted in…”

Section: The Geopoliticization Of Lgbt+ (Visibility) Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Where the Personal is (Geo)Political: Performing Queer Visibility in Georgia in the Context of EU Association

Luciani

2021

Problems of Post-Communism

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This article examines the interplay between EU interventions fostering LGBT+ rights inGeorgia, and the visibility-raising strategies of local queer activists. The growing antagonism between the EU and Russia over their 'shared neighbourhood' crystallizes the idea of a valuebased divide between the West/EUrope and the East/Russia on LGBT+ issues -with Georgia occupying a liminal position therein. The paper puts forward the concept of geopoliticization to unpack how the discursive construction of LGBT+ equality as a geopolitical issue shapes Georgian queer activists' visibility strategies, and to interrogate the outcomes these processes produce.

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Where the Personal is (Geo)Political: Performing Queer Visibility in Georgia in the Context of EU Association

Luciani

2021

Problems of Post-Communism

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“…Moreover, Russia exports this ideology abroad to win conservatives' support in various societies. A very nuanced recent work of Shirinian (2020) argues that imaginary geography where the US is portrayed as an enemy to Armenia influences the perception of the term "gender." The ideology of "illiberal East" is actively supported by various far-right and nationalist groups in Armenia, politicians, and media.…”

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Pro-life vs. pro-choice in a resurgent nation: The case of post-Soviet Armenia

Lopatina¹,

Kostenko²,

Ponarin³

2022

Front. Polit. Sci.

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A backlash against liberal gender and sexuality attitudes has been an issue in many societies, especially post-Communist. However, it takes a different shape in each socio–cultural context. This article contributes to academic debates about neo-traditionalism in the post-Soviet space and focuses specifically on Armenia. It points at some possible mechanisms that make these societies look more neo-traditionalist than they actually are. From the previous research of gender aspects of nationalism, we argue that the neo-traditionalist public discourses in Armenia might be a by-product of the national identity construction. We conclude that the individual-choice attitudes in the post-Soviet space may reflect the respondents' acceptance of a national ideology promoted by the post-Soviet elites rather than their private practices. Our aim is to reveal the complexities of neo-traditionalism in the post-Soviet space where everyday practices are at odds with neo-traditionalist narratives, which we argue might be a result of the Soviet legacy of unwritten rules and open secrets.

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“…As Rao (2020, 11) argues, the "civilizational logic of homonationalism," or the acceptance of liberal LGBTI+ rights by the states, serves as "a barometer of nation's fitness for sovereignty." Opposed to homonationalism is "heteronationalism" (Moss 2014, cited in Shirinian 2020, an anti-gender homophobic ideology, which right-wing nationalists or nationalistic state elites from the "illiberal East" employ to push against the West (Shirinian 2020).…”

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Introduction

Çağatay

Liinason

Sasunkevich

2021

Thinking Gender in Transnational Times

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Presenting the research context of the book, this chapter familiarizes the reader with the conceptual, methodological, and ethical discussions and concerns that are present throughout the book. After a brief overview of gender and sexual politics in Russia, Turkey, and the Scandinavian countries, it introduces the book’s multi-scalar transnational methodology—an innovative approach to the study of transnationalizing feminist and LGBTI+ activisms that traces convergences and contrasts between seemingly disparate places and connectivities below and beyond the national scale. The chapter offers descriptions of the ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Russia, Turkey, and the Scandinavian countries, as well as a discussion of how contested terms such as feminism, LGBTI+ , queer, activism, NGOs, West–East, North–South are navigated in the book.

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The illiberal east: the gender and sexuality of the imagined geography of Eurasia in Armenia

Cited by 12 publications

References 19 publications

Where the Personal is (Geo)Political: Performing Queer Visibility in Georgia in the Context of EU Association

Where the Personal is (Geo)Political: Performing Queer Visibility in Georgia in the Context of EU Association

Pro-life vs. pro-choice in a resurgent nation: The case of post-Soviet Armenia

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