Sexual Citizenship in the European Union

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7724904
AutoresCarl F Stychin (0000-0002-3495-1651, autor correspondente)
Ano2001
Volume5
Fascículo3
Páginas285-301
Data de publicação2001-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621020120085252
OpenAlexW2024004044
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas27
Referências citadas32

This article examines two different uses of the language of citizenship: in the context of the 'sexual citizen', and the transnational 'European citizen' of European Union politics. It begins with an exploration of how the concept of citizenship has been constitutively built on a set of binary constructs of in/exclusion and can prove a disciplining and regulatory concept. Yet, simultaneously, citizenship can have an active and democratic potentiality. The article interrogates these two faces of citizenship by considering the mobilization of lesbians and gay men through the International Lesbian and Gay Association Europe (ILGA Europe), and the engagement of ILGA with the institutions of the European Union. The article concludes that European and sexual citizenship underscores the tension, not only between active and passive citizenship forms, but more generally, between identity and difference. This tension demands, in turn, a reappraisal of identity-based thinking, in favour of a more coalitional, affinity-based politics

Active citizenship · Aesthetics · Citizenship · Democracy · European union · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law