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Queering Gezi and Maidan: Instrumentalization and Negotiation of Sexuality Within the Protest Movement

In: Non-Western Social Movements and Participatory Democracy

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  • Maryna Shevtsova

    (Humboldt University)

Abstract

This chapter is a comparative case study of (in)visible participation of LGBTI communities in the anti-governmental protests in Turkey and Ukraine in 2013–2014. It aims to explain the differences in the mobilization practices employed by LGBTI communities during protests that took place in similarly conservative and homophobic contexts. The chapter examines how the choice of collective action strategy shapes the opportunities for real political participation in social movements. Based on the examples of the Gezi protest in Turkey and the Maidan protest in Ukraine, this chapter argues that the use by LGBTI activists of a context-appropriate political discourse to raise demands enhances the movement’s capacities for building transnational networks and creates a possibility for ‘democratization from below’.

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  • Maryna Shevtsova, 2017. "Queering Gezi and Maidan: Instrumentalization and Negotiation of Sexuality Within the Protest Movement," Societies and Political Orders in Transition, in: Ekim Arbatli & Dina Rosenberg (ed.), Non-Western Social Movements and Participatory Democracy, pages 85-100, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:socchp:978-3-319-51454-3_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51454-3_6
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