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Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights: PART 1. Between empathy and contempt: colonial legacies, neoliberalism and neo-colonialism

Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights
PART 1. Between empathy and contempt: colonial legacies, neoliberalism and neo-colonialism
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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. List of figures and tables
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Notes on contributors
  9. Foreword
  10. Overview
  11. PART 1. Between empathy and contempt: colonial legacies, neoliberalism and neo-colonialism
  12. 1 Vacillating between empathy and contempt: the Indian judiciary and LGBT rights
  13. 2 Expanded criminalisation of consensual same-sex relations in Africa: contextualising recent developments
  14. 3 Policing borders and sexual/gender identities: queer refugees in the years of Canadian neoliberalism and homonationalism
  15. 4 Queer affirmations: negotiating the possibilities and limits of sexual citizenship in Saint Lucia
  16. 5 Violence and LGBT human rights in Guyana
  17. 6 Cultural discourse in Africa and the promise of human rights based on non-normative sexuality and/or gender expression: exploring the intersections, challenges and opportunities
  18. 7 Haven or precarity? The mental health of LGBT asylum seekers and refugees in Canada
  19. PART 2. Resilience, resistance and hope: organising for social change
  20. 8 The rise of SOGI: human rights for LGBT people at the United Nations
  21. 9 Resistance to criminalisation, and social movement organising to advance LGBT rights in Belize
  22. 10 The multifaceted struggle against the Anti-Homosexuality Act in Uganda
  23. 11 Emergent momentum for equality: LGBT visibility and organising in Kenya
  24. 12 Kuchu resilience and resistance in Uganda: a history
  25. 13 Gender theatre: the politics of exclusion and belonging in Kenya
  26. 14 Telling Our Stories: Envisioning participatory documentary
  27. Appendix: Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights participatory documentaries
  28. Index

PART 1

Between empathy and contempt: colonial legacies, neoliberalism and neo-colonialism

A battle is now taking place between the old criminal law frameworks which shackle LGBT lives and the new constitutional interpretations which seek to confirm the inherent dignity to which LGBT persons are entitled. The rights of these individuals now stand precariously poised between empathy and contempt (Narrain, chapter 1).

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Figure 7. Demonstration in front of the High Court, Delhi, 28 November 2011. Photo credit: No Easy Walk to Freedom, Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights.

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