Envisioning global LGBT human rights (neo)colonialism, neoliberalism, resistance and hope
Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights: (Neo)colonialism, Neoliberalism, Resistance and Hope is an outcome of a five-year international collaboration among partners that share a common legacy of British colonial laws that criminalise same-sex intimacy and gender identity/expression. The project sought...
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Language: | English |
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London
Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London
2018, [2018]©2018
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Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Foreword / Corinne Lennox and Matthew Waites
- Overview / Nancy Nicol
- Part 1. Between empathy and contempt : colonial legacies, neoliberalism and neo-colonialism
- Vacillating between empathy and contempt : the Indian judiciary and LGBT rights / Arvind Narrain
- Expanded criminalisation of consensual same-sex relations in Africa : contextualising recent developments / Adrian Jjuuko and Monica Tabengwa
- Policing borders and sexual/gender identities : queer refugees in the years of Canadian neoliberalism and homonationalism / Gary Kinsman
- Queer affirmations : negotiating the possibilities and limits of sexual citizenship in Saint Lucia / Amar Wahab
- Violence and LGBT human rights in Guyana / Pere DuRoy and Namela Baynes Henry
- Cultural discourse in Africa and the promise of human rights based on non-normative sexuality and/or gender expression : exploring the intersections, challenges and opportunities / Monica Mbaru, Monica Tabengwa and Kim Vance
- Haven or precarity? The mental health of LGBT asylum seekers and refugees in Canada / Nick J. Mulé and Cameron McKenzie
- Part 2. Resilience, resistance and hope : organising for social change
- The rise of SOGI : human rights for LGBT people at the United Nations / Kim Vance, Nick J. Mulé, Maryam Khan and Cameron McKenzie
- Resistance to criminalisation, and social movement organising to advance LGBT rights in Belize / Caleb Orozco
- The multifaceted struggle against the Anti-Homosexuality Act in Uganda / Adrian Jjuuko and Fridah Mutesi
- Emergent momentum for quality : LGBT visibility in and organising in Kenya / Jane Wothaya Thirikwa
- Kuchu resilience and resistance in Uganda : a history / Richard Lusimbo and Austin Bryan
- Gender theatre : the politics of exclusion and belonging in Kenya / Guilllit Amakobe, Kat Dearham and Po Likimani
- Telling our stories : envisioning participatory documentary / Nancy Nicol
- Appendix : envisioning global LGBT human rights participatory documentaries