Beyond Queer Cold Wars
Description
In recent years, LGBTQ+ rights have become a global battleground, shaping political alliances and conflicts. From the United States' fight against terrorism, backed by the discourse of "homonationalism", to Russia's anti-LGBTQ+ laws and framing of its invasion of Ukraine as part of a struggle for "traditional values", the world is often described as divided into two opposite geopolitical camps: those who support LGBTQ+ rights and those who oppose them.
Beyond Queer Cold Wars challenges this idea by bringing together case studies of how sexuality and gender are entangled in geopolitical relations in multiple and sometimes unexpected ways. The chapters move between social movement mobilization, media, arts and popular culture, religion, economic forces and high-level international politics, and show the richness, complexity and nuanced histories of contemporary politics of gender and sexuality. By examining the blurred lines between support and opposition to LGBTQ+ rights, Beyond Queer Cold Wars offers a fresh perspective on the global fight for equality, emphasizing that no country or movement is as simple as it might appear.
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Persons
Maryna Shevtsova is a Senior post-doctoral FWO Fellow at KU Leuven. She is the author of LGBTI Politics and Value Change in Ukraine and Turkey Exporting Europe? (2021) editor of Feminist Perspectives of Russia's War in Ukraine: Hear Our Voices (2024).
Tatiana Klepikova is Research Group Leader at the University of Regensburg. She is the author of Homophobia: Soviet and Post-Soviet (forthcoming) and co-editor of Outside the "Comfort Zone": Private and Public Spheres in Late Socialist Europe (2020)
Emil Edenborg is an associate professor and senior lecturer at Stockholm University, He is the author of Politics of Visibility and Belonging: From Russia's "Homosexual Propaganda" Laws to the Ukraine War (2017).
Content
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Protector queers, protected queers Troubling binary notions of threat and protection in contemporary contestations over LGBTQ rights.- Chapter 3: The wars in the chiaroscuro queer gender and sexual political in Colombia peace and conflict transitions.- Chapter 4: Geopolitically motivated anti-gender politics at the intersection of Islam and gender The hijacking of anti-colonialist frames in civilizational populism in contemporary Turkey.- Chapter 5: Existing Between the Poles Luso African States and their Place or Lack Thereof in the Queer Cold Wars.- Chapter 6: Homonationalism and homonormativity from the margins Disentangling the geopolitical imaginary of right wing LGBTIQ activists in Brazil.- Chapter 7: Deconstructing the East West divide in gender affirming healthcare.- Chapter 8: Negotiating Queer Agency Within Structures of Homocapitalism and Foreign Aid in Sri Lanka.- Chapter 9: Challenges of Queer Theology in Interreligious Context.- Chapter 10: Slippages in Ireland's narrative on queer equality WPS as a homonationalist gender agenda.- Chapter 11: Impossible coherence Deconstructing the EU's international LGBTfriendly identity.- Chapter 12: Ontological security and colonial legacies in young queer populations in Central Asia.- Chapter 13: Nonaligned subjects Infrastructures of transness in postsocialist Serbia.- Chapter 14: Rethinking queer visibility through failure The Invisible Communities festival and the production of transient queer spaces in Tbilisi.- Chapter 15: Blending Ideological Progress and Stylistic Continuity for Expanding Taiwan's Soft Power in the Sinosphere.- Chapter 16: How did Sissy Men Become the Enemy of the State The dual structure of queerness in China.