Heteroactivism

Resisting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Rights and Equalities

Heteroactivism
Catherine Jean Nash, Kath Browne
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9781786996459
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Around the world, LGBTQ+ activists have won an unprecedented series of political victories, from marriage equality to increased representation in government. But this success has sparked a backlash. While there has been much scrutiny of the role of the Christian right in opposing LGBTQ+ equality in the US, the backlash goes far beyond these traditional elements, and also extends beyond the US to countries including the UK, Ireland and Canada. In this book, Nash and Brown consider the rise of the new ' heteroactivism' , showing how social media and new sources of funding have reinvigorated the opponents of LGBTQ+ rights. They also show how the rhetoric and tactics of this new generation of heteroactivists differs from that of their predecessors, exploiting notions of ' parental rights' and freedom of speech to assert heteronormative values in spaces ranging from schools to workplaces. They also reveal the increasingly transnational nature of anti- LGBTQ+ activism, with growing links between heteroactivists in the US, UK and beyond.
' Rather thanfollow the scholarship path of non-normative, queer and LGBTIQ+ lives,identities and communities, this book puts organised heteroactivist people,groups, spaces and places at the centre of enquiry. An original and crucialintervention for scholars and activists interested in the shifting and highlycharged debates about equality, freedoms, and human rights, that provides newunderstandings of the way in which societies, space, place and activism arereworked through resistances to LGBTIQ+ legislative, political and socialequalities. ' Lynda Johnston, University of Waikato ' Emphasizing transnational networks and activisms, CatherineJean Nash and Kath Browne provide a fascinating guide to the new heteroactivismin countries where many students of anti-LGBTQ backlash assume we have won. ' Cynthia Burack, The Ohio State University ' What an excellent read this is! The authors provide a wealthof insight into heteroactivism in localised contexts, avoiding simplisticreligion-related explanations. Critically aware of epistemological geopolitics,this is the book we all should reward ourselves to read. ' Dr Roberto Kulpa, Co-editor of De-Centring WesternSexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives. ' This chilling and original study offers a timely analysis ofcontemporary resistances to LGBT equalities across three nationalEnglish-speaking settings. Attentive to nuance and geopolitical specificity, itshows how growing opposition to LGBT equalities cannot simply be understood ashomo or transphobia. Instead, heteroactivists claim that state-sponsored LGBTinclusion in the 21st is a threat to democracy, free speech and Christianheteronormativity. A welcome contribution to the urgently needed and growingfield of research on contemporary anti-gender movements, this book providesconcepts, methods and questions of relevance beyond the English-speaking globalNorth. ' Ulrika Dahl, Uppsala University ' Nash and Browne' s pioneering analysis exposes the existenceand expansion of resistances against gender and sexual equalities in' progressive nations' . As an analytical category, Heteroactivism investigates thedesire to establish heteronormativities as the bedrock of the Occident. Thebook is an essential contribution to debates about sexual politics. ' Stefanie Boulila, Lucerne University
Catherine Jean Nash is a Professor, in the Department of Geography and Tourism Studies, Brock University. Her research interests include geographies of sexuality/queer/feminist and trans geographies, mobilities and digital sexualities. She is currently working with Kath Browne (and Andrew Gorman-Murray) tracing transnational oppositions to LGBTQ rights in Canada, the UK and Ireland, and with Andrew Gorman-Murray on new mobilities and digital life and the transformations in LGBT and queer neighbourhoods in Sydney, Australia and Toronto, Canada. Her previous books include Queer Methods and Methodologies (with Kath Browne, 2016), The Geographies of Digital Sexualities (with Andrew Gorman-Murray, 2019), and the Canadian edition of Human Geography: People, Place and Culture (with Erin Fouberg et al, 2015). Kath Browne is a Professor of Geography University College, Dublin. Her research interests lie in sexualities, genders and spatialities. She has worked on LGBT equalities, lesbian geographies, gender transgressions and women' s spaces. She has authored over 100 publications including journal articles and co-wrote (with Leela Bakshi) Ordinary in Brighton: LGBT, activisms and the City (2013), and Queer Spiritual Spaces(2010), and co-edited The Routledge Companion to Geographies of Sex andSexualities (2016) and Lesbian Geographies (2015).
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ISBN-13: 9781786996459
Published: 15 Sep 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Zed Books
Publisher: Zed Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 248

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