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Transforming the future: Gender/sexual citizenship and the horizons of hope [Network for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality] 
Convenors:
Monika Baer (University of Wrocław)
An Van Raemdonck (Ghent University)
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Format:
Panel
Location:
Peter Froggatt Centre (PFC), 02/013
Sessions:
Friday 29 July, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

By means of ethnographically and theoretically informed case studies, the panel seeks to explore the dynamics of gender/sexual citizenship as a site of social and political mobilization in grassroots settings, which gives hope to transform the oppressive present.

Long Abstract:

Since the early 21st century the (neo)liberal idea of legal and cultural gender/sexual citizenship has been strictly related to concepts of human rights and tolerance understood as a marker of civilization. It has also privileged specific forms of personhood and gender/sexual normativity. It has been thus questioned as neocolonial and symbolically violent in nature. Yet, gender/sexual citizenship still provides important political tools to fight against social inequalities and exclusions frequently related to rising right-wing populisms and nationalisms with their politicized anti-genderism and LGBT-phobia. While gender equality, women's sexual rights, and LGBT rights are sometimes embraced by the political right (although usually for xenophobic use), they are more often resisted as a foreign "ideology" that threatens traditional values, a society or a nation-state.

With the intention of going beyond "dark anthropology" and "anthropology of the good" (Ortner 2016), this panel seeks to explore the dynamics of gender/sexual citizenship as a site of social and political mobilization in grassroots settings. By means of ethnographically and theoretically informed case studies, it aims to discuss social and political projects related to gender equality, women's sexual rights, and LGBT rights that both adapt and contest these concepts in their attempts to transform the oppressive present; networked solidarities and institutional collaborations which they involve; and their wider cultural, social, political, legal and economic entanglements of different scales. By imagining desirable change, they increase the horizons of hope and allow aspiring to and acting for a better future (Appadurai 2013).

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Session 1 Friday 29 July, 2022, -
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