Transatlantic Knowledge Politics of Sexuality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2966965 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Haley Mcewen (0000-0002-6572-1429, University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 239-262 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Philosophy of Race (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2165-8684 • E-ISSN: 2165-8692 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/critphilrace.4.2.0239 |
| OpenAlex | W2493788064 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 34 |
Contestations over the rights of sexual minorities and gender-nonconforming people in Africa are profoundly shaped by two discourses that both emerge from polarized domestic political debates in the United States: a human rights-centered discourse of "LGBT*I" identity politics that promotes visibility and equal protections and privileges for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, and intersex individuals; and a Christonormative "family values" agenda that promotes the heterosexual nuclear family as the foundation of civilization. Analysis considers these contemporary discourses in relation to entangled colonial constructions of white supremacy and heteropatriarchy used to justify the conquest and exploitation of Africa. This article takes particular interest in the power relations that are (re)constituted through these discourses so as to uncover the underlying interests at stake within them. Through consultation with critiques advanced within critical race and critical queer theory, and critical philosophical arguments on the epistemic dimensions of racialized, sexed, and gendered oppressions, it is argued that these discourses advance U.S. hegemonic interests and reinscribe Western hegemony. It is concluded that struggles for equality among sexual minorities and gender-nonconforming people must be approached as part-and-parcel of decolonial struggles to dismantle white supremacist and Western structures of oppression
Civilization · Colonialism · Hegemony · Human rights · Human sexuality · Lesbian · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Queer · Racism · Sociology · White supremacy · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Reproductive Health and Technologies
Can There Be an Anthropology of Homophobia?
Globalizing Family Values
Boy-Wives and Female Husbands
Behind Blue Eyes
Off White
Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America
The Antigay Agenda
Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa
Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance
The Threat of Race
The ignorance contract
The Darker Side of Western Modernity
Queering Human Rights
Queering the Politics of Global Sexual Rights
Coming to Understand
The politicisation of sexuality and rise of homosexual movements in post-colonial Cameroon
Coloniality of Power and Eurocentrism in Latin America
Homophobias
From 'saving women' to 'saving gays
Terrorist Assemblages
The Sexual and Racial Contradictions of Neoliberalism
The Smell of Communities to Come
Waking Nightmares-on David Marriott
Transatlantic Knowledge Politics of Sexuality
Monster, Terrorist, Fag
Scents, Scholars, and Stigma
Patriarchy, Capitalism, and the Colonial State in Zimbabwe
The (dis)similarities of white racial identities
Post-Colonial Histories of Sexuality
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |