Sociology of LGBTQ+ Rights in Times of Crisis

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

This panel invites sociological scholarship examining how LGBTQ+ rights are shaped by, and respond to, contemporary crises. From rising authoritarianism and humanitarian crises due to wars and genocides to climate emergencies, crises fundamentally reshape the terrain on which LGBTQ+ rights are envisioned, enacted, and contested. This panel seeks papers (or extended abstracts) that analyze the complex relationship between crisis and LGBTQ+ experiences, communities, and mobilizations. What discourses, strategies, and technologies of “human rights” do LGBTQ+ as well as anti-LGBTQ+ movements deploy under conditions of crisis? How do LGBTQ+ communities, at the intersection of other minoritized communities, become targets of political scapegoating during periods of multiple crises? How do crises exacerbate existing vulnerabilities while potentially opening spaces for mobilization, coalition, and more? The panel is open to highlighting diverse political and cultural contexts as well as theoretical and methodological approaches.

Sub Unit

• Sociology of Human Rights Section / Sociology of LGBTQ+ Rights in Times of Crisis

Presider

• David John Frank, University of California-Irvine

Individual Presentations

• Double Precarity: The Intersecting Vulnerabilities of LGBTQ+ Asian Migrants - Yeeun Hong, University at Albany, SUNY

• Geopolitical Earmarking: Donor Identity and the Moral Politics of LGBTQ+ NGO Funding - Kristopher Velasco, Princeton University; Alessandra Rister Portinari Maranca, Princeton University

• Governing Self-Determination: Reflecting on the Limits of the Gender Identity Law in a Pre-Milei Argentina - Francis J Fabre, University of Chicago

• Queer Governmentality in Times of Crisis: A Genealogical Study of Sexuality Governance in South Korea - Xueying Lan, Yonsei University

• “Trans Healthcare is Healthcare”: Gender Dysphoria and Biological Citizenship in a Shifting Biopolitical Landscape - Emily Via, University of Illinois-Chicago

Session Organizers

• Minwoo Jung, Loyola University Chicago

• Wesley Longhofer, Emory University