Pinkwashing Policies or Insider Activism? Allyship in the LGBTIQ+ Governance–Activism Nexus

Bibliographic Data

ID22018277
AuthorsKarine Duplan (0000-0002-5033-4901, University of Geneva, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume8
Issue2
Publication date2023-04-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Planning (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635
PublisherCogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT)
DOI10.17645/up.v8i2.6509
OpenAlexW4364365595
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited33

While there has been an increase in the rights and visibility of LGBTIQ+ people in (most) European countries, critiques of what is denounced as instrumentalization by public policies of LGBTIQ+ issues have also developed. In this context, one can ask how to qualify the strengthened relationships between governance and activism. In this article, I propose to explore the paradoxical articulation of the multiple sites from where the cause support can be enacted. Drawing on a Geneva-based ethnographic research project, I use the concept of governance–activism nexus to reflect on the liminal position of public officials in charge of implementing equality agendas. Troubling further the insider–outsider binary divide, I argue that they act towards a discrete queering of municipal governance from the inside, through the practice of allyship in solidarity. In so doing, this article offers future research perspectives for the study of urban/regional LGBTIQ+ activism and politics, while allowing us to question our own position as critical or activist researchers in the field of feminist and queer geographies

Corporate governance · Insider · Liminality · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration

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