tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: " Globalizing queer? AIDS, homophobia and the politics of sexual identity in India"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Globalizing queer? AIDS, homophobia and the politics of sexual identity in India | Globalization and Health BioMed Central Review Open Access Globalizing queer AIDS homophobia and the politics of sexual identity in India Subir K Kole Address Degree Fellow East-West Center Lecturer Department of Political Science University of Hawaii at Manoa 1711 East-West Road MSC 836 Honolulu HI 96848 USA Email Subir K Kole - subir@ Published II July 2007 Received 8 February 2007 Globalization and Health 2007 3 8 doi 1744-8603-3-8 Accepted 11 July 2007 This article is available from http content 3 1 8 2007 Kole licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Queerness is now global. Many emerging economies of the global South are experiencing queer mobilization and sexual identity politics raising fundamental questions of citizenship and human rights on the one hand and discourses of nationalism cultural identity imperialism tradition and family-values on the other. While some researchers argue that with economic globalization in the developing world a Western hegemonic notion of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender LGBT identity has been exported to traditional societies thereby destroying indigenous sexual cultures and diversities other scholars do not consider globalization as a significant factor in global queer mobilization and sexual identity politics. This paper aims at exploring the debate around globalization and contemporary queer politics in developing world with special reference to India. After briefly tracing the history of sexual identity politics this paper examines the process of queer mobilization in relation to emergence of HIV AIDS epidemic and forces of neoliberal globalization. I argue that the twin-process of globalization and AIDS epidemic