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International Discussions of Homosexuality: Boomeranging effects in power currents
Alternative Title
Международные дискуссии о гомосексуальности: эффекты бумеранга в потоках власти
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Date Issued
2018-03
Date Available
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Abstract
Homosexuality has recently become a matter of international politics. UNO General Secretary announced LGBT rights a global agenda and called for rejection of discriminatory laws in national legislatures. Former president of the USA supported widening of sexual citizenship by inclusion of samesex couples. Similar tendencies have been demonstrated by the European Union countries. Yet, simultaneously, there are attempts to criminalize homosexuality in a somewhat concurrent camp of the global debate: new round of criminalization in India, prison terms for gay men in Uganda, or capital punishment in Zimbabwe. Ban of so called 'propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations' stands in this row. It was enacted in Russia in 2013 to protect children from becoming gay by learning information on LGBT issues. This initiative has been interesting for members of parliament in other post-Soviet republics. It seems like the world is divided in two parts by the question of homosexuality. But this perception is an oversimplification. Both inclusive and exclusive approaches use the same power technics and come from the same source. I use ideas of Michel Foucault and queer theory to show the ways how a complex analysis of the situation might be brought about. In this sense, power does not come from only one source, but is always embedded in relations between forces. Hence, there are intersecting currents of power that make the international discussion of homosexuality possible.
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Journal
Sociology of Power
Volume
30
Issue
1
Start Page
14
End Page
32
Language
English
ru
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2074-0492
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