Waites, M. (2019) Decolonizing the boomerang effect in global queer politics: a new critical framework for sociological analysis of human rights contestation. International Sociology, 34(4), pp. 382-401. (doi: 10.1177/0268580919851425)
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Abstract
This article proposes a new critical framework for analysing transnational human rights-claiming and contestation: a ‘critical model of the boomerang effect’, that can embody sociological understanding and insights from decolonizing analyses. The article develops a critique of Keck and Sikkink’s well-known model of the ‘boomerang effect’, from politics and international relations. The new critical model is needed to analyse contestations including global queer politics, particularly to examine where and how actors in formerly or currently colonized states from the Global South can draw on the United Nations human rights system. The new model requires analysis of four themes, with a decolonizing enquiry applied to each: (1) articulation of human rights; (2) social structures and resources; (3) socio-cultural contexts; and (4) subjectivation. These themes are examined to illuminate two pivotal cases claiming decriminalization of same-sex sexual acts: Caleb Orozco in Belize, and Jason Jones in relation to Trinidad and Tobago – generating a new research agenda.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Waites, Dr Matthew |
| Authors: | Waites, M. |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences |
| Journal Name: | International Sociology |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| ISSN: | 0268-5809 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1461-7242 |
| Published Online: | 01 July 2019 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2019 The Authors |
| First Published: | First published in International Sociology 34(4): 382-401 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher |
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