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Polarize and Conquer: Russian Influence Operations in the United States
2020 •
Gabriele Cosentino
This chapter recounts, analyzes and theoretically frames the impact of influence operations carried by Russian trolls coordinated by the Internet Research Agency (IRA) to covertly influence the 2016 presidential elections in the United States. The chapter locates the IRA development in the context of domestic Russian politics and its later evolution as an agent of information warfare in the conflict in Ukraine. The chapter also discusses the theme of political polarization within American society, which was exploited and exacerbated by a coordinated strategy of political interference directed by the Kremlin aimed at sowing distrust and confusions among voters.
Journal of Intercultural Studies
'You Can't Be Gay and Do Religion': Understanding Muslim LGBTIQ+ Experiences of Accessing Support Services
2021 •
maria pallotta-chiarolli
In 2017, we conducted a research project in Victoria, Australia, aimed at improving understanding of the unique service needs and delivery requirements for vulnerable members of the Muslim LGBTIQ+ community in Victoria. The study involved semistructured interviews with 12 members of the LGBTIQ+ Muslim community discussing their experiences with 3 identified areas of service provision: Muslim services, LGBTIQ+ services, and mainstream services. The findings demonstrate how participants' sexualities, gender identities and religious beliefs affect their healthcare access and use, the meanings they derive from such experiences, and the accountability and culpability of systemic and structural inequities. The paper concludes with a summary of recommendations for future research, resourcing and realisation.
Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography
Queer, Muslim, and Maghrebi: An Intersectional Analysis of Immigrant Identities in Contemporary France
2022 •
Trinidad Lara
This study investigates the complex ways in which queer Muslim women with origins from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) negotiate belonging and selfhood in France. Drawing on a three-month long digital ethnography, I employ an intersectional approach to explore the juxtaposition of “Muslim” and “lesbian/ bisexual” identities and to answer the question, “How do queer Muslim immigrant women negotiate and conceptualize their identities in contemporary France?” As a marginalized group within a marginalized minority of immigrants from the MENA region, queer Muslim immigrant women have been overlooked in scholarship, public discourses, politics, religious, LGBTQ+ spaces, and religious spaces. This research addresses this gap by exploring the identity-related struggles of queer Muslim immigrant women in France and contributes to studies on Muslim subjectivities, immigration, and gender. Based on my findings, I argue that queer Muslim immigrant women in France negotiate their identit...
Feminist Review, Volume 133, Issue 1
Elsewheres in Queer Hindutva: A Hijra Case Study
2023 •
Aniruddha (Ani) Dutta
In July 2021, a series of gruesome videos exposed a case of brutal torture perpetrated by a guru or leader of the trans feminine hijra community in eastern India. This guru was allegedly of a Bangladeshi Muslim background, and various community members used the case as an alibi to target hijras of such national and religious origin, sometimes even demanding their expulsion from India. This phenomenon paralleled increasing affiliations between certain sections of trans/hijra communities and the Hindu Right. This article situates this case within the broader rise of queer and trans Hindutva or Hindu nationalism and locates it as indicative of Hindutva's expansion to its erstwhile 'elsewheres': areas outside its traditional strongholds such as eastern India and communities such as hijras who are known for their mixed religious practices and have been historically stigmatised by Hindu society. However, the article also analyses the case to show how hijras and related communities evidence contingently wavering political alliances and complex dynamics of intra-community power and resistance that remain irreducible to typical equations of Hindu right-wing politics. Through transmutations in logics of power such as caste, communities situated 'elsewhere' relative to Hindutva may trouble its assimilationist capacities and point the way to a future not organized around its concerns. As always, I am deeply indebted to my kothi-hijra sisters, friends and interlocutors whose generosity, wisdom and insights made this essay possible.
GRAAT Online - Gender Studies and Cultural Studies
Celebrating Revolutions: Notes on Queer of Colour Critique and Queerness in India
2022 •
Sandeep Bakshi
Focusing on one specific geopolitical entity, this essays seeks to analyse the faultlines, the fissures of queer mobilisation and activism in postcolonial India with an explicit referencing of the queer of colour critique. Taking as point of departure the celebratory moment of queerness in contemporary India, signalled by the termination of the colonial-era law criminalising hom*osexuality, I attempt to extend the discussion to horizons that incorporate transnational exchange. In other words, in what follows, a sustained emphasis on queer of colour critique brings into focus the transnational exchange that may inform queer mobilisation in India. Without a doubt, the interaction between these two cultures of analysis is not novel, even though their overt intersections remain largely absent in academic scholarship. Of course, this frame of queer of colour critique is informed by my positionality as a diasporic queer of colour subject residing in the global north. Such frames do not preclude or disqualify a) the robustness and achievement of queer struggles in India; suffice to highlight that the queer movement in India, like movements globally, is not a singular monolith and is not confined to the country given that the mobilisation benefits from diasporic input inevitably. This essay therefore does not offer a critique of the movement per se. And, b) this frame speaks to the multiple ways in which queerness belongs to India and South Asia. In this paper, therefore, I reflect upon the significance of queer of colour critique and what it offers to a reading of queer activism in India. Even though it might figure as a strange combination, it is not a new approach since the criss-crossing lines have been explored earlier without rendering the interconnection explicit.
Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia
Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia: Queer Muslims and their Allies
2023 •
Diego Garcia Rodriguez
Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia explores gender, sexuality and religion in contemporary Indonesia. It is the first book-length analysis of the experiences of queer Muslims in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country and the world’s fourth most populous nation, as well as the first monograph exploring the voices of their allies vis-à-vis the role of Indonesian progressive Islam and Islam Nusantara. An ethnographic study based on semi-structured in-depth interviews, participant observation and media analysis, the book analyses how queer Indonesian Muslims come to, and navigate, their gender, sexual and religious subjectivities and subject positions, beliefs and practices. This is done by paying attention to their interactions with family, education, media, and peers. It also investigates the emergence of queer religious geographies through the case of an annual camp leading to alternative discussions on gender, sexuality, and religion impacting processes of subjectivity formation among participants. The author draws on recent scholarship that attends to ‘agency’ not merely as a synonym for resistance but also as a modality of action to examine the rise of queer religious agentic systems through the everyday practices of queer Muslims. Finally, the book explores the background of the allies of queer Muslims who have come to develop queer-inclusive strategies from within Islam by considering the processes that shaped their advocacy and the role of Islam Nusantara. The book reflects on the critical role of Islam for gender and sexual minorities in Indonesia. Presenting the voices, practices and activism of present-day Indonesians to explore the position of Islam as a source of emotional strength, guidance, and social support, this book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Religious Studies, Asian Studies and Southeast Asian Studies, Islamic Studies and Queer Anthropology.
LGBTs In, Muslims Out: hom*onationalist Discourses and Counterdiscourses in the Flemish Press
2020 •
Alexander Dhoest
This article aims to contribute to the growing body of knowledge on hom*onationalism by exploring a European region that has not been discussed so far, Flanders (Belgium), focusing on media discourses. hom*onationalism refers to the way LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) rights are increasingly incorporated in (mostly Western) conceptions of nationhood, at the expense of ethnic and religious “Others” (most prominently Muslims) who are considered inimical to the LGBT-friendly nation. Using discourse analysis to analyze three months of Flemish newspaper reporting on hom*osexuality in relation to Muslims, this article inquires into which nations LGBT rights are incorporated and by whom, and how hom*onationalist discourses relate to broader discourses on Muslims and hom*osexuality. The analysis finds examples of explicit hom*onationalist discourse, originating with nationalist politicians, but also implicit hom*onationalist discourse that only refers to Muslims, as well as counterd...
Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Youth Participation
2021 •
Chigozie Azunna
Journal of Intercultural Studies
Reclaiming Transgender Identity Through Intersectionality and Decoloniality: A Critical Autoethnography of an Academic-Activist Performance
2022 •
maria pallotta-chiarolli
As a Malaysian Muslim transwoman and a social justice researcher, exploring her transgender identity in a conservative society positions Aisya within a long history of oppression and injustice alongside other global marginalised and vulnerable assignedmale-at-birth transgender groups. This paper offers reflections on Aisya’s lived experience of discrimination arising from her trans identity. It focuses on linking critical theory (decoloniality and intersectionality), methodology (autoethnography) and theological epistemology (a progressive Muslim standpoint), while the analysis ‘tells’ the autoethnographic ‘transgender identity’. By exploring her lived experience in a heterocisnormative neocolonial setting, this paper encourages a critical discourse of decolonising Aisya’s transgender identity by using intersectional feminist theory and critical authoethnography as methods of decolonial performance. This paper contests the colonial matrix of power by dismantling colonialism through rebuilding and rediscovering ancient and pre-colonial knowledge of Indigenous and colonised people to decentre heterocisnormativity, gender hierarchies and racial privilege. Ultimately, this paper invites readers to come along on a social justice journey through decolonial intersectional feminism, arise together in critical solidarity, and carry compassion, care, love, and the desire to heal from the grievances of colonialism
