The Illiberal Turn. : Aid Conditionalis and the Queering of Sexual Citizenship

• One can consider that there may be a hidden agenda behind Sweden’s previous Minister for International Development Cooperation, Hillevi Engström’s, sudden declaration to freeze aid to Uganda in the spring of 2014 (apart from fishing for votes among the Swedish LGBT community). In the history of same-sex sexuality Western governments and states have not voluntarily promoted LGBT rights, unless being pressured from below. Therefore, I will start this paper with examining how conditional aid to protect LGBT rights has been discussed in the LGBT movement in Sweden. I will then move on to discuss the problematic universal homosexual citizen, and continue with problematizing the illiberal turn when using aid conditionalis to promote ”queer” citizenship. Doing so I will apply the concept homotransnationalism – a modification of Jasbir Puar’s concept homonationalism (Puar 2007).

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Annan humaniora -- Kulturstudier (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Other Humanities -- Cultural Studies (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

aid conditionalis

queer

post colonial

citizenship

human rights

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