Reconceptualising and contextualising sexual rights in the MENA region: beyond LGBTQI categories

Nasser-Eddin, Nof; Abu-Assab, Nour; Greatrick, Aydan

doi:10.1080/13552074.2018.1429101

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“…Similar concerns are reiterated in a number of ethnographic studies that draw on the contextualised lived experiences of self-identified, same-sex loving or gender-variant individuals (Nyanzi 2013;Thajib 2014Thajib , 2015Thajib , 2017Nasser-Eddin et al 2018). In the work of these scholars, the focus is on a careful crafting of analytical frameworks depending on cultural and political contexts.…”

Section: Chakra Of Lifementioning

confidence: 89%

“…During the period of conducting life historical ethnography in Aceh, the use of the term 'queer' , as in 'queer theory' or 'queer research' , has emerged in the discipline of International Relations (Richter-Montpetit 2017; Rao 2018), but also more generally in international development and humanitarianism debates: on post-war reconstruction, but also on refugee protection and human rights work (Nasser-Eddin et al 2018). The emerging scholarship and policy debates address a number of different (academic) audiences: firstly, widely understood 'feminist/queer IR' (Peterson 2014; Sjoberg 2014; Weber 2014; Wilcox 2014); secondly, scholars working with the theme 'Women, Peace, and Security' or UN Security Resolution 1325 (Hagen 2016(Hagen , 2017; and, thirdly, scholars debating state sovereignty (Weber 2016).…”

Section: Chakra Of Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

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Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh: Gendered Urban Politics in the Aceh Peace Process

Jauhola

2020

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This book and the accompanied video documentaries would have not been possible without the support of a number of people over the past eight years, some going way beyond that, all the way to early 2000s at the Peace Station in Helsinki and dialogue with Acehnese human rights defenders. First of all, I want to thank all those Acehnese who allowed the project team and me to enter your homes and lives-I have a deep gratitude of having gained insights that led research towards appreciating Ilmu Bodoh, subaltern theorising on peace. On behalf of all of us who have formed the Scraps of Hope team during these years, we sincerely hope that we can live up to your expectations of this journey. Any representational biases and mistakes are solely ours. I also want to thank all the Acehnese counterpart organisations and their staff members, directors, researchers, lecturers and, most importantly, administrative staff members facilitating the paper bureaucracy related to foreign researcher visits in Aceh between the years 2012 and 2018. These institutions are the International Centre for Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies (ICAIOS), the University of Malikussaleh (UNIMAL) and the Islamic State University Ar-Raniry (UIN). My special gratitude goes to the staff of the Embassy of Republic of Indonesia in Helsinki and in particular the Ambassador of Indonesia in Finland, H. E. Wiwiek Setyawati Firman, for facilitating the filming permissions for 2015, and taking part in the University of Helsinki Think Corner Talk-Poetry-Dance ZUBAIDAH DJOHAR: BUILDING A BOAT IN A PARADISE-FEMINIST LITERATURE THAT RESISTS FORGETTING xii Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh evening in November 2017. The Scraps of Hope team, daring to dream of a media-embedded, peer-reviewed monograph already in 2015, we truly were ahead of the times! Thank you Seija Hirstiö, Ariyuki Suzuki, Päivi Nikkilä, and Riitta Koikkalainen and Jukka Turunen for being part of Scraps of Hope! My gratitude for all the hard work by Rahmat in Aceh for essential logistics and additional camerawork in recordings in December 2015. Evi Sugianty (ICAIOS) and Mifta Sugesti-your professionalism in going through interview and video recordings, providing transcripts, translations and detailed comments on the draft videos, has provided deepened perspectives to ethnographic moments that could otherwise go unnoticed. My sincere thanks to poet, trainer, researcher and friend Ibed, Zubaidah Djohar and a colleague at UNIMAL campus Nanda Amalia, and all her colleagues who invited me to their classes in 2012. A special thank you to the Creative Minority student group for initiating the creative writing workshops leading to Zubaidah Djohar's edited book Dalam Keriput Yang Tak Usang: Suara Pemuda Dan Jalan Panjang Perdamaian Aceh and similarly, all the voluntary effort that went into writing, editing and publishing the book Bisu yang Bersuara, collection of writings of female survivors of violence in the midst of peace in Aceh after the initial joint writing workshop organized in August 2018. Similarly, the whol...

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Section: Chakra Of Lifementioning

confidence: 89%

Section: Chakra Of Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh: Gendered Urban Politics in the Aceh Peace Process

Jauhola

2020

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“…Overall, the fi ndings presented here are exploratory in nature: this article aims to consider how Southern actors are aff ected by sexual asylum normativities that are otherwise well accounted for by queer asylum scholars vis-à-vis practices in the Global North. Further research on queer asylum in the Global South is certainly imperative: this article aims to contribute to existing research here (Kivilcim 2017;Myrttinen et al 2017;Nasser-Eddin et al 2018, Shakhsari 2014, by examining the implications of Northern sexual rights discourses on Southern queer responses to refugees in particular.…”

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“…Th ese require that applicants visibly "fi t" themselves into identities in a way that ignores the fact that, for many, persecution stems from engaging in nonnormative sexual practices, and not necessarily identifying as LGBTQ. As a result, queer organizations anticipate that individuals may come to seek support who do not obviously "fi t" into the "particular social group category" covered by the 1951 convention: they may possess none of the visible "characteristics" of being LGBTQ, but still experience persecution based on their sexual practice (Nasser-Eddin et al 2018). Nevertheless, the "ocular epistemology" of Northern human rights law (Shuman andHesford 2014: 1021) means this aspect of sexuality-based persecution is obscured: they fail to meet the expectations of the host, and must be "coached" to adopt the language of LGBTQ rights identities.…”

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“Coaching” Queer

Greatrick

2019

Migration and Society

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This article argues that Northern responses to, and recognition of, LGBTQ refugees bind queer organizations in Lebanon and Turkey, which support such refugees, in a state of contradiction. This contradiction is defined both by the failure of Northern LGBTQ rights discourses to account for Southern ways of being queer, but also by the categorical imperative of hospitality, which asks that the “right” refugee appears in line with the moral, political, raced, and gendered assumptions of Northern host states. In recognizing this imperative, this article observes how queer organizations in Lebanon and Turkey navigate this contradiction by simultaneously “coaching” their beneficiaries on how to appear “credible” in line with Northern assumptions about sexual difference, while working to accommodate the alterity of those they support.

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“…Queer theory has been used to good effect to critique gender, sexuality and human rights in the institutions, policies and practices of international development (e.g. Cornwall et al 2009;Jolly 2000;Klapeer 2018;Nasser-Eddin et al 2018), although almost invariably in relation to a "North-South" axis. Queer International Relations is prospering (e.g.…”

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Queering Development? The Unsettling Geographies of South–South Cooperation

Mawdsley

2019

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This paper deploys queer theory as a way of approaching South-South Cooperation (SSC). It examines the ways in which Southern development partners are not simply up-ending the longstanding spatialities, imaginaries and identities (re)produced through the mainstream international development regime, but queering terminologies and definitions, while presenting themselves in fluid ways, enrolling different identities and attributes in different places and to different audiences. At the same time, a queer lens reveals the (re)inscription of gendered, sexualised and racialized solidarities and hierarchies through the relationships, intimacies and practices of SSC. The paper proposes that queer theory can offer productive insights into the complex and compelling phenomenon of SSC, and its transgressive challenge the postcolonial hierarchies and binaries of 'traditional' international development.

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Reconceptualising and contextualising sexual rights in the MENA region: beyond LGBTQI categories

Cited by 21 publications

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Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh: Gendered Urban Politics in the Aceh Peace Process

Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh: Gendered Urban Politics in the Aceh Peace Process

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Queering Development? The Unsettling Geographies of South–South Cooperation

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