Mobilizing Gay Singapore

Author : Lynette J. Chua
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9971698153
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mobilizing Gay Singapore written by Lynette J. Chua and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From private meetings in living rooms in the 1990s to the emergence of annual rallies and decriminalization campaigns in the past six years, Singapore's gay rights activists have sought equality and justice in a state that does not recognise their rights to seek protection of their civil and political liberties. In her groundbreaking book,æMobilizing Gay Singapore, Lynette Chua tells the history of the gay rights movement in Singapore and asks what a social movement looks like under these circumstances. She examines the movementÍs emergence, development, strategies, and tactics, as well as the roles of law and rights in social processes. Chua uses in-depth interviews with gay activists, observations of the movement's activities, movement documents, government statements, and media reports. She shows how activists deploy "pragmatic resistance" to gain visibility and support, and tackle political norms that suppress dissent, while avoiding direct confrontations with the state.

Author : Gráinne de Búrca
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192691767
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legal Mobilization for Human Rights written by Gráinne de Búrca and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditionally top-down focus in human rights scholarship on laws, institutions, and courts has begun to turn towards a bottom-up focus on activists, advocacy groups, affected communities, and social movements. The essays collected in Legal Mobilization for Human Rights examine a range of issues including which groups claim rights, what they are mobilizing to protect, the goals they pursue, the forums they use, the obstacles they encounter, and the extent of their success or failure. Case studies reveal key themes such as: the importance of human rights to marginalized communities; how political and societal authoritarianism shapes opportunities for effective mobilization; the importance of the choice of forum for instigating change; the role intermediary actors such as NGOs play in innovating strategies to address challenges; the possibilities for subaltern mobilization to reshape human rights law; and the importance of supporting genuinely community-led legal mobilization.

Author : Lynette J. Chua
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781503602236
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Love in Myanmar written by Lynette J. Chua and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceptualizing human rights practice as a way of life -- Forming the movement : founding emotions and social ties -- Transforming grievances : emotional fealty to human rights -- Building community : emotional bonds among activists -- Faults, fault lines, and the complexities of agency

Author : Whitney K. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009493264
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law, Mobilization, and Social Movements written by Whitney K. Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal and social movement scholars have long puzzled over the role of movements in moving, being moved by, and changing the meanings of the law. But for decades, these two strands of scholarship only dovetailed at their edges, in the work of a few far-seeing scholars. The fields began to more productively merge before and after the turn of the century. In this Element, the authors take an interactive approach to this problem and sketch four mechanisms that seem promising in effecting a true fusion: legal mobilization, legal-political opportunity structure, social construction, and movement-countermovement interaction. The Element also illustrates the workings and interactions of these four mechanisms from two examples of the authors' work: the campaign for same-sex marriage in the United States and social constitutionalism in South Africa.

Author : David S. Law
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 110842709X
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutionalism in Context written by David S. Law and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad-ranging, interdisciplinary, and context-rich exploration of the fields of constitutional studies and comparative constitutional law for research and teaching.

Author : Lynette J. Chua
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1009338250
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Place written by Lynette J. Chua and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of Place tells a new history of the field of law and society through the experiences and fieldwork of successful writers from populations that academia has historically marginalized. Encouraging collective and transparent self-reflection on positionality, the volume features scholars from around the world who share how their out-of-place positionalities influenced their research questions, data collection, analysis, and writing in law and society. From China to Colombia, India to Indonesia, Singapore to South Africa, and the United Kingdom to the United States, these experts record how they conducted their fieldwork, how their privileges and disadvantages impacted their training and research, and what they learned about the law in the process. As the global field of law and society becomes more diverse and an interest in identity grows, Out of Place is a call to embrace the power of positionality. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Shawna Tang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317519167
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore written by Shawna Tang and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking lesbians in Singapore as a case study, this book explores the possibility of a modern gay identity in a postcolonial society, that is not dependent on Western queer norms. It looks at the core question of how this identity can be reconciled with local culture and how it relates to global modernities and dominant understandings of what it means to be queer. It engages with debates about globalization, post-colonialism and sexuality, while emphasising the specificity, diversity and interconnectedness of local lesbian sexualities.

Author : Lynette J. Chua
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108620191
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia written by Lynette J. Chua and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Element, I introduce the socio-legal study of politics of rights as the theoretical framework to understand rights in the culturally and politically diverse region of Southeast Asia. The politics of rights framework is empirically grounded and treats rights as social practices whereby rights' meanings and implications emerge from being put into action or mobilised. I elaborate on the concepts underlying politics of rights and develop an analysis of rights in Southeast Asia using this framework. The analysis focusses on: what are the structural conditions that influence the emergence of rights mobilisation? How do people mobilise rights and what forms does rights mobilisation take? What are the consequences of rights mobilisation and how do we assess them? I hope that this view of politics of rights - from a Global South region and from the ground - can encourage more astute evaluations of the power of rights.

Author : Natalie Oswin
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820355003
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global City Futures written by Natalie Oswin and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global City Futures offers a queer analysis of urban and national development in Singapore, the Southeast Asian city-state commonly cast as a leading “global city.” Much discourse on Singapore focuses on its extraordinary socioeconomic development and on the fact that many city and national governors around the world see it as a developmental model. But counternarratives complicate this success story, pointing out rising income inequalities, the lack of a social safety net, an unjust migrant labor regime, significant restrictions on civil liberties, and more. With Global City Futures Natalie Oswin contributes to such critical perspectives by centering recent debates over the place of homosexuality in the city-state. She extends out from these debates to consider the ways in which the race, class, and gender biases that are already well critiqued in the literature on Singapore (and on other cities around the world) are tied in key ways to efforts to make the city-state into not just a heterosexual space that excludes “queer” subjects but a heteronormative one that “queers” many more than LGBT people. Oswin thus argues for the importance of taking the politics of sexuality and intimacy much more seriously within both Singapore studies and the wider field of urban studies.

Author : Steven A. Boutcher
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789907675
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change written by Steven A. Boutcher and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of law and social movements provides an ideal lens for rethinking fundamental questions about the relationship between law and power. This Research Handbook takes up that challenge, framing a new, more global, dynamic, reflexive, and contextualised phase of social movement studies.