Where the Personal is (Geo)Political: Performing Queer Visibility in Georgia in the Context of EU Association

IF 2 2区社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Problems of Post-Communism Pub Date : 2021-07-15 DOI:10.1080/10758216.2021.1937228

Laura Luciani

引用次数: 5

Abstract

ABSTRACT This article examines the interplay between the European Union’s (EU) interventions fostering LGBT+ rights in Georgia, and the visibility-raising strategies of local queer activists. The growing antagonism between the EU and Russia over their “shared neighborhood” crystallizes the idea of a value-based divide between the West/EUrope and the East/Russia on LGBT+ issues—with Georgia occupying a liminal position therein. The paper puts forward the concept of geopoliticization to unpack how the discursive construction of LGBT+ equality as a geopolitical issue shapes Georgian queer activists’ visibility strategies, and to interrogate the outcomes these processes produce.

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个人在哪里（地理）政治：在欧盟联盟的背景下在格鲁吉亚表现出更高的知名度

摘要本文探讨了欧盟在格鲁吉亚促进LGBT+权利的干预措施与当地酷儿活动家提高知名度的策略之间的相互作用。欧盟和俄罗斯在“共同的邻居”问题上日益对立，这具体体现了西方/欧盟和东方/俄罗斯在LGBT+问题上基于价值观的分歧——格鲁吉亚在其中占据了边缘地位。本文提出了地缘政治化的概念，以揭示LGBT+平等作为一个地缘政治问题的话语建构如何塑造格鲁吉亚酷儿活动家的可见性策略，并质疑这些过程产生的结果。

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Problems of Post-Communism POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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4.00

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12.50%

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