Envisioning global LGBT human rights : : (neo)colonialism, neoliberalism, resistance and hope /

Envisioning global LGBT human rights : : (neo)colonialism, neoliberalism, resistance and hope / / edited by Nancy Nicol [and six others].

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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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Nicol, Nancy,
Place / Publishing House:London : : University of London Press,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxx, 428 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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