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Queering Southern Italy: towards a conceptualisation of ‘Meridian Sexualities’
Full text linkThis article critically interrogates the expectations connected to the presence or absence of queerness in Southern Italy from a theoretical perspective, advancing the concept of ‘Meridian Sexualities’ as a tool that can be deployed from within the Italian South to think about its own queer histories and experiences, beyond the existing ‘cultural hegemony’ of the Italian North that has historically invisibilised, exoticised or essentialised them. This concept explicitly borrows from the work of Southern Italian sociologist Franco Cassano on ‘il Pensiero Meridiano’ (‘Meridian Thought’) and suggests that the emergence of ‘Meridian Sexualities’ can be achieved through ‘de-Northing’ knowledge production about the queer Italian South; subverting existing stereotypes on queerness in Southern Italy; and lastly through the reshaping of queer Italian pasts that have been forgotten or are missing from the archives, through the production of cultural artefacts. This article contributes to the sociology of gender and sexuality, particularly in relation to the existing hegemonic/subaltern relations within the Global North, showing the key role that these relations play in the definition of Northern and Southern European sexual and gender modernities
European Sexual Citizenship:Human Rights, Bodies, Identities
No full textThis book is an innovative and critical contribution to the study of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people in the context of Europe. Combining legal and Foucauldian approaches, it investigates the ways in which current discourses about LGBTIQ rights in Europe are tightly bound to contemporary debates about national and trans-national citizenship. The author defines and analyzes the concept of 'multisexual citizenship' to illustrate new, flexible forms of sexual and gendered citizenship that could radically transform practices of citizenship and the current human rights framework in Europe. She does this by combining critical deconstructions of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights with ethnographic observations and sociological analysis. This interdisciplinary work will appeal to sociologists, lawyers and researchers of gender and LGBTIQ rights. Francesca Romana Ammaturo is Lecturer in Sociology and Human Rights at the University of Roehampton, UK. Her research focuses on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people in Europe
The Council of Europe and the Creation of LGBT Identities through Language and Discourse: a Critical Analysis of Case Law and Institutional Practices
Full text link© 2018, Taylor & Francis. The attached document (embargoed until 17/06/2020) is an author produced version of a paper published in THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link below. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it
Raising Queer Children and Children of Queer parents: Children’s Political Agency, Human Rights and Hannah Arendt’s concept of 'Parental Responsibility'
Full text linkThis article moves from Arendt’s concept of ‘parental responsibility’expressed in ‘Reflections on Little Rock’ (1959), where the authorquestioned whether children should be made part of adults’ political fights.Whilst pertinent to the school de-segregation movement for black childrenin the US in 1950s, Arendt’s provocations are applied here to navigate thetensions between the right to self-determination of the child, the child’sbest interest, and parents’ desire to raise their children as they wish inrelation to children’s sexual orientation and/or gender identity. The articlesuggests that a new radical engagement with the notion of ‘children’spolitical agency, and a re-articulation of the concept of ‘the best interest ofthe child’ are required in order to enhance the right of the child to sexualand gender self-determination.© 2018, The Author(s), published by SAGE. This is an author produced version of a paper published in SEXUALITIES uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link below. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it
Europe and whiteness:Challenges to European identity and European citizenship in light of Brexit and the ‘refugees/migrants crisis’
Full text linkThis article sets to use the current 'Refugees/Migrants Crisis' and Brexit as illustrative of the numerous challenges the European Union faces today when it comes to its identity and hte construction of a 'European citizenship'. By discussing the proliferation of borders in the European continent and by analysing the sociological significance of such proliferation, the article argued that EUrope is experiencing an ontological and epistemological, rather than existential, crisis that relates to its incapacity of acknowledging, and critically engage with, its fundamental neo-colonial and neo-liberal matrix. The article argues that the stalemate experiences by the European Union with respect to its regional and global relevance can only be overcome by bringing to the surface buried or disqualified knowledges about 'who counts as European' beyond whiteness. © 2018, The Author(s). This is an author produced version of a paper published in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL THEORY uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link below. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it
"The more South you go, the more frankly you can speak": Metronormativity, Critical Regionality and the LGBT Movement in Salento, South-Eastern Italy
Full text linkIn recent times, the region of Salento in South-Eastern Italy, has becomeone of the most popular gay-friendly touristic spots in the country andseveral LGBT organisation operate in this territory since the last few years.This article seeks to map creation, development and challenges of theLGBT movement in this Italian sub-region by looking at forms ofnegotiation between "local" and "queer" identities and beyond narratives of“metronormativity” of LGBT identities (Halberstam 2005) and from theperspective of ‘critical regionality’ (Gopinath 2007; Binnie 2016) and‘meridian thought’ (Cassano 2001). Through semi-structured interviewsconducted with four local LGBT activists in 2016 and ethnographicobservations carried out at Pride events in 2016 and 2017, the article looksat conflicting social processes whereby local activism is rooted in situatedallegiances and interactions with the territory and its population, whilstbeing permeated by globalising dynamics of LGBT identity politics.http://mc.© 2018, The Author(s), published by SAGE. This is an author produced version of a paper published in CURRENT SOCIOLOGY uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link below. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it
Framing and Shaming: LGBT Activism, Feminism and the Construction of “Gestational Surrogacy” in Italy
Full text linkThis article will discuss the existence of and reasons for a pattern of cross-mobilisation between Italianfeminist and LGBT movements in relation to the controversial issue of gestational surrogacy. Gestationalsurrogacy usually involves a woman who offers to carry out a pregnancy (either on a voluntary basis orthrough monetary compensation) on behalf of couples (be them heterosexual or homosexual) who areinfertile or cannot have children. In Italy gestational surrogacy has acquired prominence in the politicaldebate following the approval of the law same-sex unions in 2016. Immediately within this contextimportant fractures on this issue emerged between and within the feminist and LGBT movements. Thisarticle will consider the motivations behind those rifts and map the different proposed solutions to theregulation of gestational surrogacy in Italy.© 2019, Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The attached document (embargoed until 09/06/2021) is an author produced version of a paper published in SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it
Pride Events in the periphery between hyper-localisation and hyper-contextualisation: a comparison between Italy and the UK
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