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Within recent critical post-colonial scholarship the influence of colonial/European morals, ways of life and lines of thinking on perceptions and governance of, for example, sexualities has been made both clear and porous - the influence is undeniable but hardly straightforward or deterministic. In this context the colonial discourse is particularly relevant in the fields of kinship, sexuality and gender, with the added complication that in the meanwhile colonial/European ways of life and lines of understanding have been appropriated, adapted and put to use locally. The task of disentangling past and present (neo)colonial thinking around gender relations, kinship, intimacy and sexuality will be the main focus of the panel.
The panel seeks to understand what goes on regarding kinship, gender and sexuality around the world (with a focus on Africa), also in order to criticize and expand European/Western understandings. Besides conceptual work the panel wishes to discuss contemporary empirical examples of how (neo)colonial ideas of gender relations and intimacy have influenced local policies and social practices, detecting also patterns of resistance and failures in attempts to governance and influence. Issues of special urgency today are LGBT struggles, policies against violence against women and interpretations of African kinship in EU family reunification policies, to mention a few.
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Accepted Abstracts
Masculinity, Resilience and Acts of Resistance in Zambian Prisons
In Search of the ‘Black Bamboo’: The Myth of African Penile Superiority and the Dilectics of Sex Tourism in Kenya
International Norms and Family Law in Burkina Faso: Between Ideal, Rejection and Aappropriation
Queering a Postcolonial Call for Sovereignty: Case Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill
Negotiating Gender Relations in Riffian Folktales from Morocco
Dual Descent and GLBT Identities in Chris Abani’s The Virgin of Flames
A Private Interview in the Station Buildings: Queering the Prohibition of Homosexuality during Apartheid
Infiltrating “African values”? Homosexuality, Prostitution and Mini-Skirts as Images of “the Foreign Evil” in Discourses on Gender and Sexuality in Uganda
Desiring ‘Love’, Crafting Intimacy: Conflicting Gender Ideologies and Social Transformation in Morocco
Sexual Rights by Covert Means: Advancing the Right to Sexual Orientation in Africa through Public Health Narratives
The Power of Western Fashion: Imagining Sexuality Urban Nairobi
“Real Love” vs. “Real Life”: Love, Music and Utopia in Freetown, Sierra Leone
In Touch with the Intimate Side: Emotions in the Definition of Femininities and Masculinities
Back & Forth – Changes in the Agency of Women in Maale, Southern Ethiopia
"A Name my Mother did not Call Me": Queer Contestations in African Sexuality
