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Between HIV prevention and LGBTI rights : the political economy of queer activism in Ghana / Ellie Gore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gore, Ellie., author.
- Series:
- African perspectives (University of Michigan. Press)
- African perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- LGBT activism--Political aspects--Ghana.
- LGBT activism.
- Gay liberation movement--Political aspects--Ghana.
- Gay liberation movement.
- Sexual minority activists--Political aspects--Ghana.
- Sexual minority activists.
- Gay rights--Political aspects--Ghana.
- Gay rights.
- Sexual rights--Political aspects--Ghana.
- Sexual rights.
- HIV (Viruses)--Prevention--Political aspects--Ghana.
- HIV (Viruses).
- Sexual health--Political aspects--Ghana.
- Sexual health.
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 187 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights investigates the transformative impacts of global development's sexual rights agenda on queer politics and activism in Ghana. With queer men bearing a disproportionate burden of HIV in Africa, rights-based health interventions have sought to tackle the epidemic by bringing together, educating, and 'empowering' queer African communities. Gore argues that queer Ghanaian men are not benefiting from development's turn to sexual health and sexual rights. Instead, HIV and other sexual rights-based initiatives operate through neoliberal paradigms that reinforce class divides and de-politicize queer struggle. These dynamics are further shaping and shaped by the politicization of homophobia within the contemporary Ghanaian state. Gore combines original ethnography, documentary analysis, and the examination of development and global health data to connect the struggle for queer liberation in Ghana to broader trajectories of capitalist transformation and crisis and the afterlives of colonialism. In doing so, Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights offers fascinating insights into the political economy of sexuality and global development for scholars, activists, and policymakers seeking to understand and address sexual injustice and oppression, both in Africa and beyond.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-187 ) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472904785
- 0472904787
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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