TY  - CHAP
AB  - This chapter considers how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activists in Namibia and South Africa appropriate discourses of decolonization associated with African national liberation movements. I examine the legal, cultural, and political possibilities associated with LGBT activists’ framing of law reform as a decolonization project. LGBT activists identified laws governing gender and sexual nonconformity as in particular need of reform. Using data from daily ethnographic observation of LGBT movement organizations, in-depth qualitative interviews with LGBT activists, and newspaper articles about political homophobia, I elucidate how Namibian and South African LGBT activists conceptualize movement challenges to antigay laws as decolonization.
VL  - 54
SN  - 978-0-85724-826-8, 978-0-85724-825-1/1059-4337
DO  - 10.1108/S1059-4337(2011)0000054005
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-4337(2011)0000054005
AU  - Currier Ashley
ED  - Austin Sarat
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - Decolonizing the law: LGBT organizing in Namibia and South Africa
T2  - Special Issue Social Movements/Legal Possibilities
T3  - Studies in Law, Politics, and Society
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 17
EP  - 44
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -