The ‘neat concept’ of sexual citizenship: a cautionary tale for human rights discourse

Wilson, Angelia R.

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“…Theories of sexual and intimate citizenship developed in the West by linking discourses about citizenship with those of sexualities (Wilson, 2009). They subsequently gained international purchase, being taken up and developed in, for example, Vasu Reddy's (2009) discussion of sexual citizenship in South Africa.…”

Section: Sexual and Intimate Citizenshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bisexuality

Monro¹

2015

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Section: Sexual and Intimate Citizenshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bisexuality

Monro¹

2015

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“…Work in other disciplines also contributed to the development of this ‘new’ area of study including in human geography (Bell and Binnie, 2000), political science (Phelan, 1995, 2001; Wilson, 2009) and literary criticism (Berlant, 1997) though, with some notable exceptions (e.g. Cooper, 1995; Cossman, 2007; Robson and Kessler, 2008; Stychin, 2003), its development has remained mainly outside of law.…”

Section: Defining Sexual Citizenshipmentioning

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Rethinking Sexual Citizenship

Richardson

2016

Sociology

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Over the last two decades sexuality has emerged as a key theme in debates about citizenship, leading to the development of the concept of sexual citizenship. This article reviews this literature and identifies four main areas of critical framing: work that contests the significance of sexuality to citizenship; critiques that focus on the possibilities and limitations of mobilising the language of citizenship in sexual politics; analyses of sexual citizenship in relation to nationalisms and border making; and literature that critically examines western constructions of sexuality and sexual politics underpinning understandings of sexual citizenship. In order to progress the field theoretically, the article seeks to extend critiques of sexual citizenship focusing on two key aspects of its construction: the sexual citizen-subject and spaces of sexual citizenship. It argues for a critical rethink that encompasses a de-centring of a ‘western-centric’ focus in order to advance understandings of how sexual citizenship operates both in the Global North and South.

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“…LGBT movements and activism have been characterised by a gradual move towards identity and relationship based rights claims contrasting with freedom of sex based rights claims of earlier political campaigns (Richardson, 2000a). Parallel to this, a new emerging literature has highlighted the links between citizenship and sexualities discourse (Wilson, 2009;Langdridge, 2013) and the necessity to develop broader definitions of citizenship, including cultural dimensions and new forms of belonging, beyond the traditional contexts of law, politics and welfare (Turner, 1993;Pakulski, 1997;O'Byrne, 2003;Richardson and Monroe, 2012). In her critical analyses of the concept of happiness, Sara Ahmed (2010) uses the examples of LGBT people, feminists and migrant people to show how these marginal social actors have the capacity to stimulate non-conventional definitions of happiness and, more broadly, alternative narratives about life, unveiling and overcoming traditional dichotomies such as public/private, inclusion/exclusion, assimilation/marginalisation, etc.…”

Section: Visions From the Borders: Positive Marginality Citizenship mentioning

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“…This article is at the intersection of three vast research areas: research on relationships, intimacies and care; research on emotions; and research on sexual, intimate and cultural citizenship (Bertone, 2013;Kershaw, 2010;Phelan, 2001;Plummer, 2003;Richardson, 2000;Roseneil and Budgeon, 2004;Ryan-Flood, 2009;Seidman, 2010;Shipman and Smart, 2007;Stychin, 2001;Taylor et al 2010;Turner, 1993;Weston, 1997;Wilson, 2009). The research background is linked to the necessity to rethink current ideas of citizenship in light of the changing context of our global, diverse and immigrant democracies and is manifold.…”

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Unconventional relationships, positive marginalities and citizenship

Pratesi

2018

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Long distance relationships and caring at a distance may be connected with emotional and psychological exhaustion but also gratification, reward and empowerment; above all, they possess important implications in terms of social justice, equality and citizenship. The expression ‘world families’ (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, 2014) includes a heterogeneous and tension-filled set of social actors who have in common the potential to bridge traditional distinctions between public and private, centre and periphery, national and international, able-bodied and physically/cognitively impaired, heterosexual and homosexual, bypassing dichotomous ideas of inclusion/exclusion which typically characterise the concept of citizenship. These families represent a group of very different social actors, including couples of mixed cultures and ethnicities, low-paid migrant workers, skilled migrant workers, asylum seekers, refugees, distant families, etc. who challenge our culturally homogenous understanding of family and society and are defined therefore as ‘pioneers of cosmopolitanism’ and cultural diversity. Drawing on recent work on families, relationships, intimacies and caring for distant others and contextualising it within the specific and still unexplored context of Living Apart Together (LAT) same-sex couples, this article examines the moral, sociological and institutional geographies of these less visible chains of care and affection and their unequally entitled rights and visibility. The literature review is combined with auto-ethnographic work analysing and discussing the case of a married, same-sex, transnational, Living Apart Together (LAT) couple. This article suggests that by looking at what happens at the level of emotion-based, micro-situated interactions we can get some crucial insights into the changing nature of families, intimacies and relationships and their multiple implications in terms of social inclusion, entitlement to rights/citizenship and social change. It is a form of relational, emotion-based and micro-situated social inclusion and entitlement to rights/citizenship which is occurring, on a daily basis, in the interstices of people’s interactions even when such change still meets several obstacles at the structural, political and institutional level.

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The ‘neat concept’ of sexual citizenship: a cautionary tale for human rights discourse

Cited by 22 publications

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Rethinking Sexual Citizenship

Unconventional relationships, positive marginalities and citizenship

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