When States 'Come Out': The Politics of Visibility and the Diffusion of Sexual Minority Rights in Europe
Thursday, August 31, 2017, 4:00 pm
Phillip Ayoub, assistant professor of politics at Drexel University, discusses the recent history of transnational movement in Europe, focusing on the diffusion of the norms it champions and the overarching question of why, despite similar international pressures, the trajectories of socio-legal recognition for LGBT minorities are so different across states. Ayoub suggests new domestic preconditions and international pathways for socio-legal change. Free.
Location:
Humanities Building, Room 382
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Sponsor:
European Studies Program, Jamie and Phyllis Chair in History
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Scott Siegel
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Phillip Ayoub’s research bridges insights from international relations and comparative politics, with a focus on marginalized populations, transnational politics, norm diffusion and the study of social movements. His recent book, When States “Come Out”: The Politics of Visibility and the Diffusion of Sexual Minority Rights in Europe (Cambridge, 2016), explains how the transnational mobilization of LGBT peoples and international channels of visibility influence social and legal change across states. His dissertation won the American Political Science Association’s Human Rights Section award the American Political Science Association’s Sexuality and Politics Section award for best Dissertation.