SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) Politics in Latin America: Theoretical, Conceptual and Strategic Lessons from the Global South

Organised by Dr Penny Miles, University of Bath and Dr Carmen Sepúlveda 

 

University of Bath, 14 September 2018

 

Call for Papers

 

We shall be holding a one-day conference at the University of Bath to discuss sexual orientation and gender identity politics in Latin America.

 

This workshop aims to bring together academics and activists, and invites inter-disciplinary approaches to the study of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in Latin America. As Latin America is now lauded for its rapid advance in this area, one aim of the workshop is to establish the contribution of scholarship on the global south to discourses emerging from the global north. To what extent are these processes challenging or reinforcing hegemonic discourses?

 

Raewyn Connell (2015) has highlighted the importance of feminisms emerging from the global south, and the challenges that southern activism presents to the established norms that have historically emanated from the north (theoretical, conceptual, activist). With the global south simultaneously seen as the leading light vis a vis SOGI rights (Latin America) (Corrales, 2015), and the locus of international backlash (Africa and the Caribbean) (Wintemute, 2017), to what extent can Latin American initiatives present a model for advance in other areas of the southern hemisphere? What legal, political and activist discourses and practices emerge from the Latin American contexts that suggest a break with conventional northern thinking? The conference therefore presents an important forum to discuss an emerging and influential area of Latin American Studies’ scholarship.

 

The workshop invites abstracts on:

SOGI social movement activism

Political Institutions and SOGI rights

Contesting SOGI rights judicially

Theorising SOGI (rights) in a Latin American context

SOGI (rights) in the Caribbean

 

Please send abstracts to Dr. Penny Miles - [log in to unmask] by 30 June 2018

 

 

If you are interested in presenting but you are unsure if your research fits the profile, then please email Dr Penny Miles – [log in to unmask]

 

We intend to collate papers from the one day conference for a special issue of a journal such as Latin American Perspectives or similar.

 

The event is sponsored by the Society for Latin American Studies and the University of Bath Gender & Sexuality Network

 

 

 

Dr Jennifer Thomson

Lecturer in Comparative Politics

Co-convenor of the PSA Women and Politics Specialist Group

 

Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies

University of Bath

1 West North, 2.17b

 

@jencthomson | [log in to unmask] | (+44)1225 385912

 

Most recent publications:

2018, “Allies or opponents? Power sharing, civil society and gender” (with Claire Pierson), special issue of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics - https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2017.1422642

 

2018, “Can abortion rights be integrated into the Women, Peace and Security agenda?” (with Claire Pierson), International Feminist Journal of Politics - https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2017.1413583

 

2018, “Resisting gendered change: feminist institutionalism and critical actors”, International Political Science Review - https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512116677844