Part of the lecture series: "Queer between the frontlines: LGBTIQ*-Politics and Mobilisations in a Translocal Perspective"
This lecture reconstructs the history of the social and political emancipation of LGBT/queer people. I trace the development of identity and political subjectivity while critically examining the different strategies employed in the fight against persecution and for recognition.
Since the shift toward the civil rights movement paradigm, emancipation movements worldwide have adopted the strategy of demanding the fulfillment of liberal democracy’s promises. To this end, they have engaged with its institutional mechanisms—such as parliamentary work, human rights declarations, and judicial activism.
More recently, new challenges have emerged: anti-gender and anti-LGBTIQ ideologies have become a unifying force for right-wing and fascist movements worldwide. This presents qualitatively new problems for LGBTIQ and queer individuals and movements. How can the freedoms they have fought for be safeguarded when the struggle is no longer just against forces operating within the liberal democratic system, but when the very foundation of liberal democracy is at risk—both nationally and internationally? And what strategies can be pursued when LGBTIQ individuals (involuntarily) become symbols of a (Western) liberal order and are attacked as such?
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Wolfram Schaffar, Chair of Development Policy
| Open to | all |
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| Prior registration | requested |
| Organised by | Executive Support Unit for Diversity and Gender Equality, Chair of Development Policy |
| Event website | https://www.uni-passau.de/en/diversity-gender-equality/diversity/lecture-series-diversity-gender-intersectionality |
| Contact organizer of event | diversity@uni-passau.de |
