The Politics of Recognizability

Giving an Account of Iranian Gay Men’s Lives Under Repressive Conditions of Sexuality Governance

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ID8968563
AutoresWayne Martino (0000-0002-4404-9303, Women's and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes, autor correspondente), J I Kjaran (0000-0001-6221-6382, University of Iceland)
Ano2018
Volume51
Fascículo1
Páginas21-41
Data de publicação2018-11-12
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s002074381800048x
OpenAlexW2901728799
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas22

In this article we examine accounts of self-identifying Iranian gay men. We draw on a range of evidentiary sources—interpretive, historical, online, and empirical—to generate critical and nuanced insights into the politics of recognition and representation that inform narrative accounts of the lived experiences of self-identified gay Iranian men, and the constitution of same-sex desire for these men under specific conditions of Iranian modernity. In response to critiques of existing gay internationalist and liberationist accounts of the Iranian gay male subject as a persecuted victim of the Islamic Republic of Iran's barbarism, we address interpretive questions of sexuality governance in transnational contexts. Specifically, we attend to human rights frameworks in weighing social justice and political claims made by and on behalf of sexual and gender minorities in such Global South contexts. In this sense, our article represents a critical engagement with the relevant literature on sexuality governance and the politics of same-sex desire for Iranian gay men that is informed by empirical analysis

Constitution · Human sexuality · Modernity · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society