Antihomosexual Acts on Trial
The Poetics of Justice in Uganda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14996830 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Edmondson (0000-0002-6766-3314, United African University of Tanzania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 6-33 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TDR/The Drama Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1054-2043 • E-ISSN: 1531-4715 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/dram_a_00833 |
| OpenAlex | W2947887030 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
Reading across artistic, political, and legal expressions of LGBT activism in and from Uganda reveals an aesthetics of silence. These moments of silence serve as a strategy of deferral that enables Ugandans on both sides of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill controversy to refuse humanitarian savior narratives, affirm the legitimacy of the postcolonial state, and point the way toward an East African grammar of justice
Aesthetics · Art · Economic Justice · Legitimacy · Literature · Narrative · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Silence · Sociology · African history and culture studies · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · Land Rights and Reforms · Law
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Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice
The Cultural Politics of Female Sexuality in South Africa
Hungochani
Law and disorder in the postcolony
Queer Pride and Protest
Sexualizing politics
Norm Proxy War and Resistance Through Outsourcing
Bequeathed Legacies
The social-political dynamics of the anti-homosexuality legislation in Uganda
British colonialism and the criminalization of homosexuality
It's a Silent Trade”
Morality plays and money matters
Ready Rhetorics
Queer Africa and the Fantasy of Virtual Participation
Legal Manoeuvres and Violence
Homosexuality/Homophobia Is Un-African
Queer Studies African Studies
Contingent Invisibility
China's engagement in Africa
Locating Neocolonialism, "Tradition," and Human Rights in Uganda's "Gay Death Penalty
The Problem with Freedom
Homosexuality, pornography, and other 'modern threats' - The deployment of sexuality in recent laws and public discourses in Uganda
The role of the Anglican and Catholic Churches in Uganda in public discourse on homosexuality and ethics
Re-membering Mwanga
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |