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Perverts, Outlaws and Dissidents: (Homo)Sexual Citizenship and Urban Space in Johannesburg

Perverts, Outlaws and Dissidents: (Homo)Sexual Citizenship and Urban Space in Johannesburg This article explores some of the interlinkages between the physical enactment of the right to the city, the spatial dimensions of urban sexual citizenship and the legal invocation of sexual rights. Its focus is on the struggles for rights and sexual citizenship by different gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersexed (LGBTI) inhabitants of Johannesburg. It aims to supplement the dominant legal narrative of rights-based victory and liberation with insights gained from the spatial expression of, demand for and denial of sexual rights, understood in light of the broader rubric of the right to the city. Such an approach reveals the spatial and personal particularities of rights and shows up prevailing inequalities in the enjoyment of rights across intersectionalities of race, gender, sexual orientation, culture, class and space. It further exposes the limits of strategic ‘equal rights’ litigation strategies and provides a conceptual framework for ongoing and future contestation over LGBTI rights. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Urban Forum Springer Journals

Perverts, Outlaws and Dissidents: (Homo)Sexual Citizenship and Urban Space in Johannesburg

Urban Forum , Volume 26 (2) – Jan 10, 2015

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2014 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
Subject
Social Sciences, general; Human Geography; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Population Economics; Political Science, general; Sociology, general
ISSN
1015-3802
eISSN
1874-6330
DOI
10.1007/s12132-014-9247-z
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Abstract

This article explores some of the interlinkages between the physical enactment of the right to the city, the spatial dimensions of urban sexual citizenship and the legal invocation of sexual rights. Its focus is on the struggles for rights and sexual citizenship by different gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersexed (LGBTI) inhabitants of Johannesburg. It aims to supplement the dominant legal narrative of rights-based victory and liberation with insights gained from the spatial expression of, demand for and denial of sexual rights, understood in light of the broader rubric of the right to the city. Such an approach reveals the spatial and personal particularities of rights and shows up prevailing inequalities in the enjoyment of rights across intersectionalities of race, gender, sexual orientation, culture, class and space. It further exposes the limits of strategic ‘equal rights’ litigation strategies and provides a conceptual framework for ongoing and future contestation over LGBTI rights.

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Urban ForumSpringer Journals

Published: Jan 10, 2015

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