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Chua, Lynette J.

 
9781503607446: The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life
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ISBN 10 : 1503607445 ISBN 13 : 9781503607446
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2018

Synopsis

The Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's post-2011 political transition. Lynette J. Chua explores how these activists devoted themselves to, and fell in love with, the practice of human rights and how they were able to empower queer Burmese to accept themselves, gain social belonging, and reform discriminatory legislation and law enforcement. Informed by interviews with activists from all walks of life--city dwellers, villagers, political dissidents, children of military families, wage laborers, shopkeepers, beauticians, spirit mediums, lawyers, students--Chua details the vivid particulars of the LGBT activist experience founding a movement first among exiles and migrants and then in Myanmar's cities, towns, and countryside. A distinct political and emotional culture of activism took shape, fusing shared emotions and cultural bearings with legal and political ideas about human rights. For this network of activists, human rights moved hearts and minds and crafted a transformative web of friendship, fellowship, and affection among queer Burmese. Chua's investigation provides crucial insights into the intersection of emotions and interpersonal relationships with law, rights, and social movements.

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À propos de l'auteur

Lynette J. Chua is Associate Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. Her first book, Mobilizing Gay Singapore: Rights & Resistance in an Authoritarian State (2014), received the Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociology Association's Sociology of Law Section.

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1503607445
ISBN 13 
9781503607446
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
232
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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