Pinkwashing Policies or Insider Activism? Allyship in the LGBTIQ+ Governance–Activism Nexus
While there has been an increase in the rights and visibility of LGBTIQ+ people in (most) European countries, critiques of what is denounced as instrumentalization by public policies of LGBTIQ+ issues have also developed. In this context, one can ask how to qualify the strengthened relationships bet...
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| description | While there has been an increase in the rights and visibility of LGBTIQ+ people in (most) European countries, critiques of what is denounced as instrumentalization by public policies of LGBTIQ+ issues have also developed. In this context, one can ask how to qualify the strengthened relationships between governance and activism. In this article, I propose to explore the paradoxical articulation of the multiple sites from where the cause support can be enacted. Drawing on a Geneva-based ethnographic research project, I use the concept of governance–activism nexus to reflect on the liminal position of public officials in charge of implementing equality agendas. Troubling further the insider–outsider binary divide, I argue that they act towards a discrete queering of municipal governance from the inside, through the practice of allyship in solidarity. In so doing, this article offers future research perspectives for the study of urban/regional LGBTIQ+ activism and politics, while allowing us to question our own position as critical or activist researchers in the field of feminist and queer geographies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cb1aa4f2cafd42d19908e8eab3bb7b3b2023-05-22T08:52:01ZengCogitatioUrban Planning2183-76352023-05-018218719610.17645/up.v8i2.65092998Pinkwashing Policies or Insider Activism? Allyship in the LGBTIQ+ Governance–Activism NexusKarine Duplan0Department of Geography and Environment, University of Geneva, SwitzerlandWhile there has been an increase in the rights and visibility of LGBTIQ+ people in (most) European countries, critiques of what is denounced as instrumentalization by public policies of LGBTIQ+ issues have also developed. In this context, one can ask how to qualify the strengthened relationships between governance and activism. In this article, I propose to explore the paradoxical articulation of the multiple sites from where the cause support can be enacted. Drawing on a Geneva-based ethnographic research project, I use the concept of governance–activism nexus to reflect on the liminal position of public officials in charge of implementing equality agendas. Troubling further the insider–outsider binary divide, I argue that they act towards a discrete queering of municipal governance from the inside, through the practice of allyship in solidarity. In so doing, this article offers future research perspectives for the study of urban/regional LGBTIQ+ activism and politics, while allowing us to question our own position as critical or activist researchers in the field of feminist and queer geographies.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/6509allyshipequalitygenevainsider activismpinkwashingpublic policiesqueer space |
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| title | Pinkwashing Policies or Insider Activism? Allyship in the LGBTIQ+ Governance–Activism Nexus |
| title_full | Pinkwashing Policies or Insider Activism? Allyship in the LGBTIQ+ Governance–Activism Nexus |
| title_fullStr | Pinkwashing Policies or Insider Activism? Allyship in the LGBTIQ+ Governance–Activism Nexus |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pinkwashing Policies or Insider Activism? Allyship in the LGBTIQ+ Governance–Activism Nexus |
| title_short | Pinkwashing Policies or Insider Activism? Allyship in the LGBTIQ+ Governance–Activism Nexus |
| title_sort | pinkwashing policies or insider activism allyship in the lgbtiq governance activism nexus |
| topic | allyship equality geneva insider activism pinkwashing public policies queer space |
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