The ‘Pink Agenda’: Questioning and Challenging European Homonationalist Sexual Citizenship
Top Cited Papers
- 3 February 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Sociology
- Vol. 49 (6), 1151-1166
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038514559324
Abstract
This article introduces the ‘Pink Agenda’ as a set of judicial, social and political instruments employed by both nation-states and international human rights institutions, such as the Council of Europe, to achieve some socio-political goals: on the one hand, the proactive promotion of specific lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender identities beyond Europe; on the other, the creation of a dichotomy between tolerant and intolerant countries within the borders of Europe. The successful enactment of the ‘Pink Agenda’ is achieved by building and reinforcing a concept of European Sexual Citizenship that is strongly homonationalist in nature. Through an analysis of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, the article emphasises the way in which the homonationalist paradigm of sexual citizenship is applied to strengthen the divide between tolerant and intolerant member states and to suggest the existence of a difference between a queer-friendly ‘West’ and homophobic and transphobic non-western countries.This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
- Sexual CitizenshipPublished by Taylor & Francis Ltd ,2013
- From ‘saving women’ to ‘saving gays’: Rescue narratives and their dis/continuitiesEuropean Journal of Women's Studies, 2012
- We, the People of Europe?Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH ,2009
- Constructing the Personal Narratives of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Asylum ClaimantsJournal of Refugee Studies, 2009
- QUEERING CITIZENSHIP?GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2005
- IntroductionSocial Text, 2005
- Human Rights: A New Standard of Civilization?International Affairs, 1998
- Global Gaze/Global GaysGLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 1997
- Pleasure and danger: the paradoxical spaces of sexual citizenshipPolitical Geography, 1995
- International human rights: a regime analysisInternational Organization, 1986