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På rätt sida av historien? Hbtq-rättigheter som global politik
No full textDetta kapitel introducerar queera perspektiv på global politik med utgångspunkt i en diskussion om politisk mobilisering kring hbtq-frågor på nationell och transnationell nivå. Att diskutera global politik utifrån ett queerperspektiv handlar inte enbart om att ”lägga till” hbtq-personer. Snarare innebär en queer analys att kritiskt granska vissa av de antaganden kring säkerhet, makt och förtryck som ofta präglar studiet av internationella relationer (inklusive feministiska studier). Det finns ingen vedertagen definition av vad som kännetecknar ett queert perspektiv, men termen avser ofta olika tillvägagångssätt som ifrågasätter och destabiliserar normer, praktiker och institutioner relaterade till sexualitet, kön, och genus. Fältet är influerat av poststrukturella teorier om identitet, homosexuella studier, lesbisk feminism, transstudier, postkoloniala perspektiv, kritiska rasstudier och aktivistiska traditioner utanför akademin. I första delen av kapitlet presenterar vi viktiga begrepp och debatter i queera studier av global politik. I andra delen ger vi två exempel på hur en queer analys av globala politiska fenomen kan se ut, dels genom en analys av evenemanget Pride Järva, dels genom en diskussion om idén om Ryssland som försvarare av ”traditionella värden”
Den ryska hbtq-rörelsen från glasnost till kriget i Ukraina : Ett civilsamhällesperspektiv på Rysslands misslyckade demokratisering
No full textThis essay aims to describe and analyze the movement for gay rights – later LGBTQ rights – in Russia from its inception in the late 1980s until the time of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The study is guided by theoretical concepts from social movement studies, and is based on previous research as well as inter-views with activists conducted by the author. The essay outlines a complex trajec-tory, where the building of a more professional and well-organized movement has occurred alongside increased state repression and stigmatization of LGBTQ activ-ism. While the findings are not directly generalizable to other civil society move-ments, they allow us to make broader reflections about the dangers of a too-linear view on democratic transition, about the relation between a movement’s visibil-ity and its success, and about how a state’s geopolitical orientation impacts civil society.</p
Sörberg, Anna-Maria, 2017. Homonationalism. Stockholm: Leopard förlag.
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Tears in the patchwork: The Sochi Olympics and the display of a multiethnic nation
Get PDFThis article examines what image of Russia is being projected in official rhetoric about the Sochi Olympics. It is argued that the imagined community being displayed is a diverse, inclusive and tolerant nation, even an international example of ethnic conviviality. The article puts this narrative in historical perspective, relating it to the mnogonatsionalnost policies of tsarist, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. This imagination, though explicitly very inclusive, rests on important exclusions and silences. By selective exhibitions of minority-groups the other is domesticated, stereotyped and reduced to kitsch and folklore, glossing over conflict-ridden histories and prevailing inequalities
Disinformation and gendered boundarymaking : Nordic media audiences making sense of “Swedish decline”
No full textThis article examines how Russian geostrategic communication is entangled in global gender politics. The aim is to understand the resonance of disinformation in relation to culturalized, ethnicized and racialized narratives of gender, or “gendered boundarymaking.” The analysis is based on focus group discussions with Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian individuals, asked to share their impressions of news articles from the Russian media agency Sputnik, which all depicted Sweden as a warning example of multiculturalism and feminism gone “too far.” In the discussions, participants opposed a gender equal “self” to a patriarchal immigrant “other,” narrated Sweden as a country exceptionally concerned with gender, and tapped into competing temporalities of progress and decline. The article contributes to research on geostrategic communication by showing how disinformation efforts draw upon gendered national identities and debates about gender and immigration. More importantly, the article demonstrates that such gendered boundarymaking shapes audiences’ interpretations in crucial ways. Rather than viewing disinformation only from a state-centered lens of national security, in isolation from racism, Islamophobia, anti-feminism, and queerphobia within Western societies, research should acknowledge the interconnections between geostrategic communication and everyday boundarymaking. This will be pivotal to developing counterstrategies to disinformation, whether Russian or homegrown.</p
Recensioner : Gunnar Nygren & Jöran Hök (red.): Ukraina och informationskriget: Journalistik mellan ideal och självcensur
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