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Homofobins geopolitik: En studie av rysk mediebevakning av förbudet mot ”homosexuell propaganda”

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Author

  • Emil Edenborg

Summary, in English

In Russia, as in some other countries around the world, we are currently witnessing a wave of politically sanctioned homophobia, most concretely manifested in the 2013 law against “homosexual propaganda”. By examining Russian mainstream media reporting, this article aims to reconstruct a dominant narrative on homosexuality and LGBT rights. It is found that this narrative revolves around three tropes: 1) that non‐heterosexuals are a threat to the nation, 2) that LGBT rights are about imposing the minority ́s norms onto the majority; and 3) that LGBT rights is bound up with Western modernity, to which Russia offers an alternative. Discussing the findings in light of theories on nationalism, gender and sexuality, I argue that homophobia in Russia must be understood in a global geopolitical perspective: as an attempt to negotiate a meaningful international role for Russia in a world order where LGBT rights have become a symbolic marker of Western modernity.

Publishing year

2014

Language

Swedish

Pages

265-292

Publication/Series

Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift

Volume

116

Issue

2014/3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Fahlbeckska stiftelsen

Topic

  • Political Science

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0039-0747