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and beyond. While there is some academic discussion on the personal and political significance of ‘promoting LGBT rights’ within law schools, less considered is how ‘LGBT rights’ are shaped by the ... my emotional experiences as a methodological tool to explore how emotions co-constitute the pedagogical, political, scholarly, and personal registers of LGBT rights as a descriptive, critical, and
political irresponsibility for the harmful effects of migration enforcement. A broader aim of the article is to challenge the structural, societal and epistemic ignorance of the conditions for detained and ... continued to detain, deport, and render non-deported migrants destitute. Meanwhile, the effects of the pandemic on the legal and social condition of this group have been entirely absent from Swedish political
Australia is witnessing a political, social and cultural renaissance of public debate regarding violence against women, particularly in relation to domestic and family violence (DFV), sexual assault ... feminism, and now in the digital era, women’s voices have challenged cultures of violence and sexual harassment. Drawing on the feminist precept that "the “personal is political”, women’s storytelling is
article takes place at an important moment in the political construction of sex and gender. There has been a growing political and social debate around the concept of ‘sex-based rights’ or ‘gender critical ... the experiences of gender diverse children. In order to do so we utilise temporality as a theoretical lens to reveal how the social and political constructions of sex and gender in ‘sex-based rights
): 332 - 344 . Lippert-Rasmussen , Kasper . 2015 . Discrimination: An Intriguing but Underexplored Issue in Ethics and Political Philosophy . Moral Philosophy and Politics 2 ( 2 ): 207 - 217 Mantu , Sandra ... the most articulated and developed part of EU citizenship. Other rights, such as those related to political participation, do not present significant difficulties for transgender EU citizens or, as in
gender as part of legal personhood (see Cooper and Renz 2016) —as a ‘prefigurative law reform’ proposal. Prefiguration is understood in different ways in political and academic debate (see Monticelli ... 2022). Typically, it refers to socio-political practices that reject a means-ends distinction, instead treating political means as ends and ends as means. Prefiguration also refers to the representation
, the assumption that minorities should be incorporated within existing classificatory structures, with all the political and Vol.:(012134536789) - 1 Our analysis includes laws that relate specifically ... to England and Wales as well as laws which also extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland, e.g., see Ministerial and Other Maternity Allowances Act 2021, s7(1). 2 Political contestation over the terms of
political and media critique, and an engagement with the present”. Nivedita Menon, a well known Indian feminist thinker and academic, one of the authors of the letter, is also one of the founder members of ... caste groups, who are part of the Varna (caste) within the four main castes (Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra), but in contemporary parlance, refers to the dominant caste. Dalit is a political term
be unavailable. Sex/gender is therefore not only legally inscribed, but emergent from and interwoven with socio-cultural and political norms and expectations. But, second, sex/ gender also does not ... , Systems Theory, and Multiple Intersecting Inequalities. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 37 : 449 - 470 .
conservative religious and political segments of society for reasons relating to propriety. This commentary explores how placards predominantly form the object of censure in the movement’s backlash. By ... annual event organised in various cities across Pakistan to observe International Women's Day. Since its inception in 2018, the March has been condemned by conservative religious and political segments of
theoretical tools and explicit temporality in navigating this tension. Finally, I depart from Radin to centre ideal thinking in my argument; I turn to conceptual debates within political philosophy to ... . Questions surrounding ideal theorising, in tandem with nonideal feasibility constraints, have been a recurring focus in political philosophy (see Rawls [1971] 1999, 216; Sen 2006; Cohen 2008) . Considering
arrived at a wrong decision in convicting the appellant of cyber harassment; and (ii) that the decision to prosecute Nyanzi was unlawful because it infringed on her political speech rights under the right ... detail later under my discussion of “freedom of expression”. But by way of introduction, a brief interrogation of Stella Nyanzi’s political speech which led to these charges and trials is necessary. Nyanzi
Despite apparent political concern and action—often fuelled by high-profile cases and campaigns—legislative and institutional responses to image-based sexual abuse in the UK have been ad hoc ... happening, and how to restrict and respond to its harms (Haynes 2018; Nigam 2018; Flynn and Henry 2019) . In the UK, despite apparent political concern and action—often fuelled by high-profile cases and
nature of gender and the systematic nature of patriarchy ( Havelková 2017 ). Thus, the post-1989 economic and political transition and transformation began with the inherited laws and policies that were ... . American Journal of Political Science 63 ( 1 ): 113 - 129 . Crouch , Melissa. 2021 . Women and the Judiciary in the Asia-Pacific . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cukrowska-Torzewska , Ewa, and Anna
legal consciousness of people engaged in the governmental and administrative work of interpreting and applying law on the ground, including the political challenges of governing in the face of disliked ... Taylor 2020) and the political opportunity structure discussed by social movement theorists (see, e.g., McAdam et al 1996; McCann 2006; Meyer 2004; Meyer and Minkoff 2004) . Whilst beyond the scope of
; Sex; State - Extended author information available on the last page of the article Tanya Ni Mhuirthile In Ireland there’s a dissonance between what the political part of government will do and what ... the civil service will do. There does seem to be some political will to explore being more open about registration. It’s been acknowledged that there are human rights interests at stake, and there’s a
reproducing colonial saviour narratives, human rights discourse mistakes honour as a form of control over women’s sexuality. In the aftermath of 9/11, honour emerged most obviously as a political and ... not until the 1990s that honour and HRV were problematised and became part of mainstream international human rights law reporting by among others the CEDAW Committee and through the Beijing +5 Political
‘the state’ or as being an instrument for the political regulation of the populous” (Harding 2011, 20) . In contrast, ‘against the law’ sees legality as “dangerous to invoke” (Ewick and Silbey 1998 ... . 8 There were no ‘against gender’ perspectives derived from lesbian feminisms (e.g., Ellis and Peel 2011) in these data which are likely due to the current political climate and framing of debates
further possibility would be that even without explicit legal rules around the acceptability of specific criteria, political pressure (particularly through funding requirements) would indirectly shape the ... murder, with the same social and political function: preserving male power by making women feel unsafe. These structural analyses focused on intersectional power relations. This is in contrast to many
political, economic, and cultural geographies organised by nation states and, increasingly, markets, with the two in tension yet co-generative of each other. Geo-legality broadens this argument to law ... taking place at the global scale into a single yet multiscalar complex (Bricknell and Cuomo 2017) . Here, we use feminist geo-legality to capture the complex political, economic, and governance
