Decolonizing the boomerang effect in global queer politics

A new critical framework for sociological analysis of human rights contestation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2355892
AutoresM Waites (0000-0001-5018-1880, University of Glasgow, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume34
Fascículo4
Páginas382-401
Data de publicação2019-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0268-5809 • E-ISSN: 1461-7242
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0268580919851425
OpenAlexW2954406538
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas34

This article proposes a new critical framework for analysing transnational human rights-claiming and contestation: a 'critical model of the boomerang effect', that can embody sociological understanding and insights from decolonizing analyses. The article develops a critique of Keck and Sikkink's well-known model of the 'boomerang effect', from politics and international relations. The new critical model is needed to analyse contestations including global queer politics, particularly to examine where and how actors in formerly or currently colonized states from the Global South can draw on the United Nations human rights system. The new model requires analysis of four themes, with a decolonizing enquiry applied to each: (1) articulation of human rights; (2) social structures and resources; (3) socio-cultural contexts; and (4) subjectivation. These themes are examined to illuminate two pivotal cases claiming decriminalization of same-sex sexual acts: Caleb Orozco in Belize, and Jason Jones in relation to Trinidad and Tobago - generating a new research agenda

Articulation (sociology · Critical theory · Human rights · Political science · Politics · Queer · Social science · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Sex work and related issues