The Queer Politics of Pride: Global LGBTQ+ Activism and Homocapitalism

Abstract

Drawing from extensive fieldwork in South Africa, South and East Asia, Cuba and New York, The Queer Politics of Pride explores and conceptualises the contemporary politics of LGBTQ+ Pride and queer activism in global contexts. Building on critical queer scholarship, the book includes the perspectives and critiques of grassroots queer activists and applies contemporary social, political and international theory to conceptualise Pride as part of the global processes of capitalism and the socio-political and spatial dynamics of gentrification.

By exploring the politics and controversies of Pride, Conway addresses broader questions about the contemporary LGBTQ+ advocacy movement including the influence and place of corporate sponsorship and advocacy, relationship with state and international institutions and the rise of an LGBTQ+ global elite.

Speaker

Daniel Conway is Reader in Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster, UK and a Research Associate at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 

He has published extensively on LGBTQ+ activism and South African politics and society. He is the author of Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British in South Africa (with Pauline Leonard, 2014) and Masculinities, Militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign: War Resistance in Apartheid South Africa, (2012). Conway is a previous chair of the Feminist Theory and Gender Section of the International Studies Association.

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