Homophobic Violence in Armed Conflict and Political Transition

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-60320-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3796 g

Reihe: Global Queer Politics

This book argues that homophobia plays a fundamental role in disputes for hegemony between antagonists during political transitions. Examining countries not often connected in the same research—Colombia and South Africa—the book asserts that homophobia, as a form of gender and sexual violence, contributes to the transformation of gender and sexual orders required by warfare and deployed by armed groups. Anti-homosexual violence also reinforces the creation of consensus around these projects of change. The book considers the perspective of individuals and their organizations, for whom such hatreds are part of the embodied experience of violence caused by protracted conflicts and social inequalities. Resistance to that violence are reason to mobilize and become political actors. This book contributes to the increasing interest in South-South comparative analyses and the need of theory building based on case-study analyses, offering systematic research useful for grass root organizations,practitioners, and policy makers.  

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Serrano-Amaya, José Fernando

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Transformationsprozesse (Politikwiss.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Sex, Violence and Politics: The Research Problem.- 2. Armed Conflict and Sexual Para-Politics in Colombia.- 3. Homophobia in Apartheid and Post-Apartheid South Africa.- 4.the Chiaroscuro of Sexual Politics.- 5. Telling Truths about Violence.- 6. Gender and Sexual Orders Making the New Society.

Über Autor(innen)

José Fernando Serrano-Amaya is Postdoctoral Fellow of Education and Social Work at The University of Sydney, AU. He has been a researcher for NGOs, policy maker in public institutions and university lecturer in Colombia.