Michael J Bosia
Biographic Data
| ID | 227604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Bosia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Bosia |
| SIGNATURE | BOSIA M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Michael's College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Dislocation of LGBT Politics
Scholars consider the translatability and efficacy of 'western' LGBT politics as they diffuse, but pay little attention to the role of its histories and cultures as geo-temporal phenomena. Focusing on Pride events, this article demonstrates how such oversights inhibit a full account of the widely diverse impacts of similar actions in different places. We explore the ways in which Pride events, as a mode of activism, go global and integrate in vas…
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The Oxford Handbook of Global LGBT and Sexual Diversity Politics
This Handbook contains chapters on the struggles for LGBT rights and the security of sexual and gender minorities around the world, with a substantial number of contributions from the Global South. It contextualizes the regional case studies within relevant theoretical frameworks from the sociology of sexualities, critical race studies, postcolonialism, indigenous theories, social movement theory, and international relations theory. Therefore, it…
Global Sexual Diversity Politics and the Trouble with LGBT Rights
This chapter responds to the challenge state homophobia poses to LGBT rights in its invocation of a “gay menace.” It engages the limits of a rights-based discourse in achieving security for sexual and gender minorities under threat: first, as homophobia is marshalled as a tool of statecraft and then as LGBT rights and identities are bound geotemporally by the historically specific context to which they responded. These two efforts demonstrate the…
Do Queer Visions Trouble Human Security?
In this chapter, the author draws from the human security framework as a way to enter the dialogue over human security in queer terms at a time when sexual and gender minorities face increasing violence and repression globally. He examines how the sex and sexuality of gender and sexual minorities is constituted as proscribed; producing insecurity for/in those marginalized because their conduct is what in the West has been called queer, by its def…
Political Homophobia in Comparative Perspective
This introductory chapter discusses political homophobia as a state strategy, social movement, and transnational phenomenon, powerful enough to structure the experiences of sexual minorities and expressions of sexuality. It considers political homophobia as purposeful, especially as practiced by state actors; as embedded in the scapegoating of an “other” that drives processes of state building and retrenchment; as the product of transnational inf…
Momin Rahman, Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures and Modernity
Response to Cynthia Burack
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Strange Fruit
A tide of oppression against sexual minorities disturbs current theories explaining the globalization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights. But unlike the turn in race theory exploring rights as an outgrowth of marginalization, research on LGBT rights still focuses on structural changes or the influence of Western LGBT forms. This article argues that a powerful new and globalizing state homophobia is a convenient tool for stat…
Global Homophobia
While homophobia is commonly characterized as individual and personal prejudice, this book instead explores homophobia as a transnational political phenomenon. The book theorizes homophobia as a distinct configuration of repressive state-sponsored policies and practices with their own causes, explanations, and effects on how sexualities are understood and experienced in a variety of national contexts. The chapters cover a broad range of geographi…
Beyond Global Summitry
Recently there has been a marked shift reflecting increased theoretical interest and political practices embracing strategies of localism or relocalization against neoliberal globalization. Specifically, individuals, farmers, and communities embracing the framework of food sovereignty have increasingly adopted localism tactics in response to the globalization of food systems, the corporate agribusiness model, and attendant food crises. The spread…
Aids and Postcolonial Politics
From a postcolonial left that challenges the French state over immigration policy and neoliberal globalization, Act Up has advocated for the social and political rights and needs of women, inmates, drug users, and immigrants with HIV/AIDS. This essay examines as well Act Up's engagement with science and globalization in response to new experimental medical trials in the Global South. Act Up's emphasis on local empowerment against global economic …
From Contention to Engagement
Engaged Observer
Anthropology has long been associated with an ethos of engagement. The field's core methods and practices involve long-term interpersonal contact between researchers and their study participants, giving major research topics in the field a distinctively human face. The fact that these interactions frequently cross social parameters, including class, race, ethnicity, and gender, raises important questions. Can research findings be authentic and ob…
Written in Blood
After 25 years, there is a broad though sometimes superficial awareness of state responses to HIV/AIDS in the global South, where the spread of disease is said to be fueled by inept or failed states, those so poor or whose officials are so indifferent that they lack public health services or even a minimal health care infrastructure. But this narrative ignores the failed responses among states struck in the first wave of the pandemic in the early…
Assassin!” Aids and Neoliberal Reform in France
The apparent French embrace of neoliberal reforms in the 1980s resulted in a series of scandals and bitter contention. The criminal trials over the failure to prevent the spread of AIDS through the blood supply uniquely resulted in the prosecution of a former prime minister. AIDS activists overcame many of their differences in targeting this top official responsible for the initial turn to neoliberalism and austerity in 1984, accusing him of homi…
Strange Fruit
A tide of oppression against sexual minorities disturbs current theories explaining the globalization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights. But unlike the turn in race theory exploring rights as an outgrowth of marginalization, research on LGBT rights still focuses on structural changes or the influence of Western LGBT forms. This article argues that a powerful new and globalizing state homophobia is a convenient tool for stat…
Beyond Global Summitry
Recently there has been a marked shift reflecting increased theoretical interest and political practices embracing strategies of localism or relocalization against neoliberal globalization. Specifically, individuals, farmers, and communities embracing the framework of food sovereignty have increasingly adopted localism tactics in response to the globalization of food systems, the corporate agribusiness model, and attendant food crises. The spread…
Written in Blood
After 25 years, there is a broad though sometimes superficial awareness of state responses to HIV/AIDS in the global South, where the spread of disease is said to be fueled by inept or failed states, those so poor or whose officials are so indifferent that they lack public health services or even a minimal health care infrastructure. But this narrative ignores the failed responses among states struck in the first wave of the pandemic in the early…
Assassin!” Aids and Neoliberal Reform in France
The apparent French embrace of neoliberal reforms in the 1980s resulted in a series of scandals and bitter contention. The criminal trials over the failure to prevent the spread of AIDS through the blood supply uniquely resulted in the prosecution of a former prime minister. AIDS activists overcame many of their differences in targeting this top official responsible for the initial turn to neoliberalism and austerity in 1984, accusing him of homi…
The Dislocation of LGBT Politics
Scholars consider the translatability and efficacy of 'western' LGBT politics as they diffuse, but pay little attention to the role of its histories and cultures as geo-temporal phenomena. Focusing on Pride events, this article demonstrates how such oversights inhibit a full account of the widely diverse impacts of similar actions in different places. We explore the ways in which Pride events, as a mode of activism, go global and integrate in vas…
Assassin!” Aids and Neoliberal Reform in France
The apparent French embrace of neoliberal reforms in the 1980s resulted in a series of scandals and bitter contention. The criminal trials over the failure to prevent the spread of AIDS through the blood supply uniquely resulted in the prosecution of a former prime minister. AIDS activists overcame many of their differences in targeting this top official responsible for the initial turn to neoliberalism and austerity in 1984, accusing him of homi…
Engaged Observer
Anthropology has long been associated with an ethos of engagement. The field's core methods and practices involve long-term interpersonal contact between researchers and their study participants, giving major research topics in the field a distinctively human face. The fact that these interactions frequently cross social parameters, including class, race, ethnicity, and gender, raises important questions. Can research findings be authentic and ob…
Written in Blood
After 25 years, there is a broad though sometimes superficial awareness of state responses to HIV/AIDS in the global South, where the spread of disease is said to be fueled by inept or failed states, those so poor or whose officials are so indifferent that they lack public health services or even a minimal health care infrastructure. But this narrative ignores the failed responses among states struck in the first wave of the pandemic in the early…
From Contention to Engagement
Aids and Postcolonial Politics
From a postcolonial left that challenges the French state over immigration policy and neoliberal globalization, Act Up has advocated for the social and political rights and needs of women, inmates, drug users, and immigrants with HIV/AIDS. This essay examines as well Act Up's engagement with science and globalization in response to new experimental medical trials in the Global South. Act Up's emphasis on local empowerment against global economic …
Beyond Global Summitry
Recently there has been a marked shift reflecting increased theoretical interest and political practices embracing strategies of localism or relocalization against neoliberal globalization. Specifically, individuals, farmers, and communities embracing the framework of food sovereignty have increasingly adopted localism tactics in response to the globalization of food systems, the corporate agribusiness model, and attendant food crises. The spread…
Global Homophobia
While homophobia is commonly characterized as individual and personal prejudice, this book instead explores homophobia as a transnational political phenomenon. The book theorizes homophobia as a distinct configuration of repressive state-sponsored policies and practices with their own causes, explanations, and effects on how sexualities are understood and experienced in a variety of national contexts. The chapters cover a broad range of geographi…
Strange Fruit
A tide of oppression against sexual minorities disturbs current theories explaining the globalization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights. But unlike the turn in race theory exploring rights as an outgrowth of marginalization, research on LGBT rights still focuses on structural changes or the influence of Western LGBT forms. This article argues that a powerful new and globalizing state homophobia is a convenient tool for stat…
Response to Cynthia Burack
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Momin Rahman, Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures and Modernity
Political Homophobia in Comparative Perspective
This introductory chapter discusses political homophobia as a state strategy, social movement, and transnational phenomenon, powerful enough to structure the experiences of sexual minorities and expressions of sexuality. It considers political homophobia as purposeful, especially as practiced by state actors; as embedded in the scapegoating of an “other” that drives processes of state building and retrenchment; as the product of transnational inf…
Do Queer Visions Trouble Human Security?
In this chapter, the author draws from the human security framework as a way to enter the dialogue over human security in queer terms at a time when sexual and gender minorities face increasing violence and repression globally. He examines how the sex and sexuality of gender and sexual minorities is constituted as proscribed; producing insecurity for/in those marginalized because their conduct is what in the West has been called queer, by its def…
Global Sexual Diversity Politics and the Trouble with LGBT Rights
This chapter responds to the challenge state homophobia poses to LGBT rights in its invocation of a “gay menace.” It engages the limits of a rights-based discourse in achieving security for sexual and gender minorities under threat: first, as homophobia is marshalled as a tool of statecraft and then as LGBT rights and identities are bound geotemporally by the historically specific context to which they responded. These two efforts demonstrate the…
Copyright Page
The Oxford Handbook of Global LGBT and Sexual Diversity Politics
This Handbook contains chapters on the struggles for LGBT rights and the security of sexual and gender minorities around the world, with a substantial number of contributions from the Global South. It contextualizes the regional case studies within relevant theoretical frameworks from the sociology of sexualities, critical race studies, postcolonialism, indigenous theories, social movement theory, and international relations theory. Therefore, it…
The Dislocation of LGBT Politics
Scholars consider the translatability and efficacy of 'western' LGBT politics as they diffuse, but pay little attention to the role of its histories and cultures as geo-temporal phenomena. Focusing on Pride events, this article demonstrates how such oversights inhibit a full account of the widely diverse impacts of similar actions in different places. We explore the ways in which Pride events, as a mode of activism, go global and integrate in vas…
Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Globalization (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)