The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights- IDAHOBIT Talk
Tuesday 21st May 2024, 2:00pm
The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights: How Transnational Conservative Networks Target Sexual and Gender Minorities
Talk by Professor Philip M. Ayoub, Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, University College London
Summary:
In the past three decades, remarkable progress has been made in numerous countries for the rights of individuals marginalized due to their sexual orientation and gender identity. The advancements in LGBTI rights in a variety of diverse countries can largely be attributed to the tireless efforts of the transnational LGBTI-rights movement, forward-thinking governments in pioneering nations, and the evolving human rights frameworks of international organizations. However, this journey towards equality has been met with formidable opposition. An increasingly interconnected and globally networked resistance, backed by religious-nationalist elements and conservative governments, has emerged to challenge LGBTI and women's rights, even seeking to reinterpret and co-opt international human rights law.
In this lecture, Professor Phillip M. Ayoub draws on his new book with Professor Kristina Stöckl to investigate this complex landscape, drawing from over a decade of in-depth fieldwork with LGBTI activists, anti-LGBTI proponents, and various state and international organization actors. Moral conservative TANs have employed many of the same transnational tools that garnered LGBTIQ people their widespread recognition. As the double-helix metaphor suggests, rival TANs have a reciprocal relationship, having to navigate each other’s presence in an interactive space and thus using related strategies and instruments for mutually exclusive ends.
Biography:
Phillip M. Ayoub is a Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at University College London. Professor Ayoub is also a Co-Editor of the European Journal of Politics and Gender.
Professor Ayoub received his PhD from the Department of Government at Cornell University in 2013, after obtaining a BA from the University of Washington and MA degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Cornell University.
His work has received various honours, including a Fulbright Schuman Fellowship, a Humboldt Chancellor Fellowship, a Cornell Sage Fellowship, a Mellon Writing Fellowship, three FLAS Fellowships, a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship, an EUSA dissertation award, two APSA dissertation awards, a Cornell Esman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship, a Cornell Kahin Prize for IR-focused Research, a Council for European Studies Best Article Prize, and a Drexel Provost Award for Outstanding Early-Career Scholarly Achievement.
Professor Ayoub is the author of four books and volumes, including When States Come Out: Europe’s Sexual Minorities and the Politics of Visibility (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and his articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Social Forces, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, the European Journal of International Relations, the European Journal of Political Research, the Review of International Studies, Mobilization, the European Political Science Review, the Journal of Human Rights, Social Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and Social Movement Studies, among others.
For more details about the speaker, visit www.phillipayoub.com
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