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Mobilizing Gay Singapore
Author | : Lynette J. Chua |
Publsiher | : NUS Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2014-04-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789971698157 |
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From private meetings in living rooms in the 1990s to the emergence of annual rallies and decriminalization campaigns in the past six years, Singapore's gay rights activists have sought equality and justice in a state that does not recognise their rights to seek protection of their civil and political liberties. In her groundbreaking book,æMobilizing Gay Singapore, Lynette Chua tells the history of the gay rights movement in Singapore and asks what a social movement looks like under these circumstances. She examines the movementÍs emergence, development, strategies, and tactics, as well as the roles of law and rights in social processes. Chua uses in-depth interviews with gay activists, observations of the movement's activities, movement documents, government statements, and media reports. She shows how activists deploy "pragmatic resistance" to gain visibility and support, and tackle political norms that suppress dissent, while avoiding direct confrontations with the state.
Legal Mobilization for Human Rights
Author | : Gráinne de Búrca |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2022-03-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780192691767 |
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The traditionally top-down focus in human rights scholarship on laws, institutions, and courts has begun to turn towards a bottom-up focus on activists, advocacy groups, affected communities, and social movements. The essays collected in Legal Mobilization for Human Rights examine a range of issues including which groups claim rights, what they are mobilizing to protect, the goals they pursue, the forums they use, the obstacles they encounter, and the extent of their success or failure. Case studies reveal key themes such as: the importance of human rights to marginalized communities; how political and societal authoritarianism shapes opportunities for effective mobilization; the importance of the choice of forum for instigating change; the role intermediary actors such as NGOs play in innovating strategies to address challenges; the possibilities for subaltern mobilization to reshape human rights law; and the importance of supporting genuinely community-led legal mobilization.
The Politics of Love in Myanmar
Author | : Lynette J. Chua |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Sexual minorities |
ISBN | : 1503602230 |
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Conceptualizing human rights practice as a way of life -- Forming the movement : founding emotions and social ties -- Transforming grievances : emotional fealty to human rights -- Building community : emotional bonds among activists -- Faults, fault lines, and the complexities of agency
Law Mobilization and Social Movements
Author | : Whitney K. Taylor,Sidney Tarrow |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2024-03-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781009493260 |
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Legal and social movement scholars have long puzzled over the role of movements in moving, being moved by, and changing the meanings of the law. But for decades, these two strands of scholarship only dovetailed at their edges, in the work of a few far-seeing scholars. The fields began to more productively merge before and after the turn of the century. In this Element, the authors take an interactive approach to this problem and sketch four mechanisms that seem promising in effecting a true fusion: legal mobilization, legal-political opportunity structure, social construction, and movement-countermovement interaction. The Element also illustrates the workings and interactions of these four mechanisms from two examples of the authors' work: the campaign for same-sex marriage in the United States and social constitutionalism in South Africa.
Out of Place
Author | : Lynette J. Chua,Mark Fathi Massoud |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2024-02-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781009338257 |
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Out of Place tells a new history of the field of law and society through the experiences and fieldwork of successful writers from populations that academia has historically marginalized. Encouraging collective and transparent self-reflection on positionality, the volume features scholars from around the world who share how their out-of-place positionalities influenced their research questions, data collection, analysis, and writing in law and society. From China to Colombia, India to Indonesia, Singapore to South Africa, and the United Kingdom to the United States, these experts record how they conducted their fieldwork, how their privileges and disadvantages impacted their training and research, and what they learned about the law in the process. As the global field of law and society becomes more diverse and an interest in identity grows, Out of Place is a call to embrace the power of positionality. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Constitutionalism in Context
Author | : David S. Law |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 611 |
Release | : 2022-02-17 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781108427098 |
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A broad-ranging, interdisciplinary, and context-rich exploration of the fields of constitutional studies and comparative constitutional law for research and teaching.
Global City Futures
Author | : Natalie Oswin |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2019-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780820355009 |
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Global City Futures offers a queer analysis of urban and national development in Singapore, the Southeast Asian city-state commonly cast as a leading “global city.” Much discourse on Singapore focuses on its extraordinary socioeconomic development and on the fact that many city and national governors around the world see it as a developmental model. But counternarratives complicate this success story, pointing out rising income inequalities, the lack of a social safety net, an unjust migrant labor regime, significant restrictions on civil liberties, and more. With Global City Futures Natalie Oswin contributes to such critical perspectives by centering recent debates over the place of homosexuality in the city-state. She extends out from these debates to consider the ways in which the race, class, and gender biases that are already well critiqued in the literature on Singapore (and on other cities around the world) are tied in key ways to efforts to make the city-state into not just a heterosexual space that excludes “queer” subjects but a heteronormative one that “queers” many more than LGBT people. Oswin thus argues for the importance of taking the politics of sexuality and intimacy much more seriously within both Singapore studies and the wider field of urban studies.
Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore
Author | : Shawna Tang |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2016-10-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317519164 |
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Taking lesbians in Singapore as a case study, this book explores the possibility of a modern gay identity in a postcolonial society, that is not dependent on Western queer norms. It looks at the core question of how this identity can be reconciled with local culture and how it relates to global modernities and dominant understandings of what it means to be queer. It engages with debates about globalization, post-colonialism and sexuality, while emphasising the specificity, diversity and interconnectedness of local lesbian sexualities.