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- Kehl, Katharina, et al.
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På rätt sida av historien? Hbtq-rättigheter som global politik
- 2021
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Ingår i: Feministiska perspektiv på global politik. - 9789144140209 ; , s. 181-194
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Detta 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”.
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- Brock, Maria, et al.
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“You Cannot Oppress Those Who Do Not Exist” : Gay Persecution in Chechnya and the Politics of In/visibility
- 2020
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Ingår i: GLQ - A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. - : Duke University Press. - 1064-2684 .- 1527-9375. ; 26:4, s. 673-700
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reports in April 2017 regarding a state-initiated wave of homophobic persecution in Chechnya attracted worldwide outrage. Numerous witnesses spoke of arrests, abuse, and murders of gay men in the republic. In response, a spokesman of Chechnya’s president, Ramzan Kadyrov, claimed that “you cannot … oppress those who simply do not exist.” In this article, with the antigay purge in Chechnya and in particular the denial of queer existence as their starting point, Brock and Edenborg examine more deeply processes of erasure and disclosure of queer populations in relation to state violence and projects of national belonging. They discuss (1) what the events in Chechnya tell us about visibility and invisibility as sites of queer liberation, in light of recent discussions in LGBT visibility politics; (2) what the episodes tell us about the epistemological value of queer visibility, given widespread media cynicism and disbelief in the authenticity of images as evidence; and (3) what role the (discursive and physical) elimination of queers plays in relation to spectacular performances of nationhood. Taken together, the authors’ findings contribute to a more multifaceted understanding of the workings of visibility and invisibility and their various, sometimes contradictory, functions in both political homophobia and queer liberation.
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- Brock, Maria, et al.
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“You Cannot Oppress Those Who Do Not Exist”
- 2020
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Ingår i: GLQ - A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. - : Duke University Press. - 1064-2684 .- 1527-9375. ; 26:4, s. 673-700
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reports in April 2017 regarding a state-initiated wave of homophobic persecution in Chechnya attracted worldwide outrage. Numerous witnesses spoke of arrests, abuse, and murders of gay men in the republic. In response, a spokesman of Chechnya’s president, Ramzan Kadyrov, claimed that “you cannot … oppress those who simply do not exist.” In this article, with the antigay purge in Chechnya and in particular the denial of queer existence as their starting point, Brock and Edenborg examine more deeply processes of erasure and disclosure of queer populations in relation to state violence and projects of national belonging. They discuss (1) what the events in Chechnya tell us about visibility and invisibility as sites of queer liberation, in light of recent discussions in LGBT visibility politics; (2) what the episodes tell us about the epistemological value of queer visibility, given widespread media cynicism and disbelief in the authenticity of images as evidence; and (3) what role the (discursive and physical) elimination of queers plays in relation to spectacular performances of nationhood. Taken together, the authors’ findings contribute to a more multifaceted understanding of the workings of visibility and invisibility and their various, sometimes contradictory, functions in both political homophobia and queer liberation.
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- Carlsson, Nina
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One Nation, One Language? : National minority and Indigenous recognition in the politics of immigrant integration
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Policies regulating immigrant integration constitute a core element of nation-building through the compliance they prescribe with cultural and linguistic norms. The recognition of multiple national belongings in states with national minorities and Indigenous peoples nevertheless challenges majority-centred notions of what integration should entail. Research on connections between integration and recognition, however, has mainly focused on minority substates such as Quebec and Catalonia, where local integration policies align with the respective minority nationalist project, leaving other contexts of recognition largely unexplored.By employing critical and interpretive approaches to the study of politics, this study aims to explore connections, separations, and synergies between policies of national minority recognition and immigrant integration in Europe. Using a combination of document analysis, interviews, and ethnographic observation, it asks how integration policy produces or counters expressions of majority nationhood in states with recognized minorities, how colonial or imperial legacies shape such policies, and what normative tensions can be identified between the promotion of majority and minority identities. Theoretically, it draws on scholarship on liberal multiculturalism, settler colonial studies, and theories on belonging and boundary-making.The four articles of this compilation dissertation combine empirical findings with normative questions. States with recognized minorities in EU27 are shown to reproduce majority nationhood through integration, which clashes with minority protection and with some migrants’ aspirations. In Finland, where the Swedish-speaking minority enjoys equal linguistic recognition with the majority, the minority and migrants are shown to mobilize to ensure the implementation of minority elements in the predominantly majority-centred integration. In Indigenous Swedish Sápmi, state-led integration is found to largely reproduce colonial practices, which are nevertheless also occasionally challenged. In Bulgaria, Turkish-speaking, Muslim minorities are othered in society and marginal within integration, even though post-Ottoman Muslim institutions have come to function as spaces of belonging for recent refugees.Integration policies are shown to misrecognize minorities and thereby fail to represent the actual heterogeneity faced by migrants. Past and present linguistic, religious, racial, and societal contestations are shown to intersect in complex, layered ways that contemporary monolingual, territory-based models of minority recognition and integration fail to capture. The study’s findings have normative implications for research on minority recognition and integration and call for contextually sensitive perspectives to rethink present policies that serve the goals of majority nation-building rather than mirror actual societal belongings.
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- Edenborg, Emil
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Anti-Gender Politics as Discourse Coalitions : Russia’s Domestic and International Promotion of “Traditional Values”
- 2023
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Ingår i: Problems of Post-Communism. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1075-8216 .- 1557-783X. ; 70:2, s. 175-184
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article proposes Maarten Hajer’s concept of discourse coalition for analyzing anti-gender politics and its interlinkages with other forms of opposition to sexual and gender equality. The perspective conceptualizes how actors with disparate ideological, philosophical, and religious views can communicate and produce meaningful interventions, if they share certain storylines. This primarily conceptual contribution is illustrated with a study of how “traditional values” are promoted by the Russian state. Two storylines, stressing the needs to protect “traditional values” from outside interference, and children from harmful sexual information, enable discursive affinities and interconnections across differences, domestically, internationally, and transnationally.
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- Edenborg, Emil
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Den ryska hbtq-rörelsen från glasnost till kriget i Ukraina : Ett civilsamhällesperspektiv på Rysslands misslyckade demokratisering
- 2023
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Ingår i: Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift. - 0039-0747. ; 125:1, s. 197-220
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This 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.
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- Edenborg, Emil
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Disinformation and gendered boundarymaking : Nordic media audiences making sense of “Swedish decline”
- 2022
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Ingår i: Cooperation and Conflict. - : SAGE Publications. - 0010-8367 .- 1460-3691. ; 57:4, s. 496-515
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This 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.
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- Edenborg, Emil, et al.
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From defending the family to protecting gays? : Change and continuity in the Nordic radical right's positions on LGBTQ issues
- 2024
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Ingår i: The Nordic Populist Radical Right. - London : Routledge. - 9780429199936 - 9781138387478 - 9781138390225 ; , s. 180-204
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Historically, populist radical-right (PRR) parties in the Nordic region have been reluctant, or openly hostile, to extend rights to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people. The chapter maps and compares how the four parties – SD, DF, PS, and FrP – have positioned themselves on LGBTQ issues from the late 1990s until 2023. The analysis shows that all four parties have opposed gay partnership laws, same-sex marriage, and adoption rights for gay couples. Since the 2010s, the PRR parties have repositioned. They retain most of their positions, but they do not seek to actively repeal same-sex marriage legislation and adoption rights. Instead, they have increasingly profiled themselves in homonationalist ways – i.e., as protectors of LGBTQ rights against supposedly homophobic Others, especially immigrants from Muslim countries. The parties have been more reluctant on trans issues, as an essentialist view on gender differences has generally guided the parties’ policies.
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- Edenborg, Emil, et al.
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Introduktion
- 2021
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Ingår i: Feministiska perspektiv på global politik. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144140209 ; , s. 11-22
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Edenborg, Emil, et al.
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Introduktion
- 2021
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Ingår i: Feministiska perspektiv på global politik. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144140209 ; , s. 11-22
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Edenborg, Emil
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Rysslands konservativa vändning och den globala anti-genusrörelsen
- 2022
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Ingår i: Nordisk Østforum. - : Cappelen Damm AS - Cappelen Damm Akademisk. - 0801-7220 .- 1891-1773. ; 36, s. 26-45
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation adoped after a 2020 referendum included a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. This is a recent manifestation of the turn to ‘traditional values’ in Russian politics and society, the best-known expression of which is the 2013 ban on ‘propaganda for non-traditional sexual orientation’. This development cannot be understood as solely reflecting ‘traditional’ attitudes of the Russian population, nor as a backlash against LGBTQ activism. The turn to ‘traditional values’ must be considered in the context of a global pattern of increased pro-family mobilization, which opposes LGBTQ rights, feminism and the alleged undermining of gender as biologically determined and strictly binary – described by researchers as ‘anti-gender mobilization’. Traditionalist politics in Russia should be analysed in a transnational and international perspective, but conservative mobilization is not a monolithic phenomenon. Using the concept of ‘discourse coalition’ developed by Maarten Hajer, I show how the identification of shared storylines enables a range of actors to act in similar ways, sometimes coordinating their actions, despite ideological, religious or strategic disagreements, on the domestic as well as the global arena.
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- Edenborg, Emil
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Saving women and bordering Europe : narratives of “Migrants’ Sexual Violence” and geopolitical imaginaries in Russia and Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: Geopolitics. - : Routledge. - 1465-0045 .- 1557-3028. ; 25:3, s. 780-801
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article maps the specific ways in which gendered and racialized boundary constructs create conditions of possibility for certain bordering practices. Connecting Critical Border Studies with feminist theories of geopolitics, it examines media reporting in Russia and Sweden about “migrants‘ sexual violence” in the wake of the 2015 New Years‘ events in Cologne. Despite contextual differences, in both countries these events were narrated as symbolic in negotiating Europe and its borders. In Russia, the events were connected to a story of a Russian girl in Berlin being raped by migrants (a story later revealed to be fabricated) and a narrative of Europe collapsing because of immigration. In Sweden, the events were connected to reports of sexual violence at festivals, sparking a debate about “Swedish values” of gender equality being endangered by immigration. The article argues, firstly, that narratives of migrants‘ sexual violence performed bordering functions in both the symbolic sense of delineating national identity and Europeanness, and the concrete sense of legitimating a stricter border regime. Secondly, it argues that the narratives performed that function only by tapping into local geopolitical narratives, in the Russian case on the country‘s ambivalent relation to Europe, and in Sweden the idea of gender exceptionalism.
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- Edenborg, Emil
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Time, queerness and global politics
- 2021
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Ingår i: Lambda Nordica. - : Foreningen Lambda Nordica. - 1100-2573 .- 2001-7286. ; 26:4-1, s. 183-187
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Edenborg, Emil
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'Traditional values' and the narrative of gay rights as modernity : Sexual politics beyond polarization
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sexualities. - : SAGE Publications. - 1363-4607 .- 1461-7382. ; 26:1-2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Examining the Russian state's turn to 'traditional values' in the 2010s, this article aims to understand traditionalist state discourses in a global context where LGBT inclusion has been incorporated into notions of national exceptionalism. It argues that the Putin regime has articulated, provided ideological coherence to, and made visible a narrative according to which resistance to LGBT rights appears as a logical choice for states seeking to position themselves in opposition to the 'liberal West.' That narrative both counters the homonationalist idea of 'gay-friendliness' as a signifier of modernity and good statehood and incorporates some of its elements, notably externalization of homophobia onto racialized, Muslim Others.
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- Hedling, Elsa, et al.
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Embodying Military Muscles and a Remasculinized West : Influencer Marketing, Fantasy, and “the Face of NATO”
- 2022
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Ingår i: Global Studies Quarterly. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 2634-3797. ; 2:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 2018, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) carried out Trident Juncture, its largest military exercise since the Cold War. The event was promoted on social media featuring Lasse Matberg as “the face of NATO.” Matberg is an Instagram influencer, model, and lieutenant in the Royal Norwegian Navy, with an impressive physique and Viking looks. He frequently appears on NATO’s social media accounts and lends his own platform to share activities such as working out with the Secretary-General. Drawing on the notion of “fantasmatic logics”, we study how visual narratives of influencer marketing can contribute to making war preparations appear normal, void of political significance and even desirable. The figure of Lasse Matberg is read in conjunction with international rearmament and increasing geopolitical antagonism bound up with ideas of “traditional masculinity” and “feminization.” We argue that the muscular yet ambiguously “soft” figure of Lasse Matberg projects a symbolic remasculinization of the West, operating through a fantasmatic logic that seemingly reconciles the contradiction between a West, which is imperial and militarily muscular on the one hand and caring, democratic, and progressive on the other. By shedding light on NATO's use of influencer marketing to promote a military exercise, this article contributes novel insights into the ways in which the figure of the NATO soldier and NATO military buildup are produced as appealing, allowing an ambivalent gendered geopolitical imaginary to emerge.
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- Svensson, Jakob, 1976-, et al.
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We are queer and the struggle is here! Visibility at the intersection of LGBT+ rights, post-coloniality, and development cooperation in Uganda
- 2024
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Ingår i: Sexualities. - : Sage Publications. - 1363-4607 .- 1461-7382.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article unpacks different meanings of visibility and adds to a more complex and nuanced understanding of visibility and its role in LGBT + activism in Uganda, a widely discussed case of political homophobia. Public visibility has a central, although contested, role here. The study aims to explore how visibility is understood and navigated by local LGBT + activists, unaffiliated people with same-sex desires, as well as international development partners. Interviews conducted in Kampala from December 2021–January 2022 reveal different and complex narratives surrounding visibility. Local unaffiliated individuals and activists agreed on the importance of making the LGBT + rights struggle more visible. This, however, did not translate into a wish to “come out” themselves. International development actors expressed a need for caution regarding their own visibility, mindful that explicit and visual support may generate accusations of neo-imperialism.
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