What is it about?
This article analyses the rise of anti-LGBT rhetoric in Indonesia and Turkey in the 2010s and early 2020s. In both countries, periods of greater public visibility of LGBTQ+ people in the early 2000s were followed by waves of severe anti-LGBT rhetoric, violence, and legal measures. This analysis focusses on the rhetoric that conservative state and non-state actors used against non-heteronormative people and to exclude them from the nation or “the people”. State and non-state actors conducted othering of LGBTQ+ people and constructed them as dangerous threats to the nation and the concept of the nuclear family. The anti-LGBT narratives were integrated into larger conspiracy narratives of foreign powers undermining the nation.
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Why is it important?
It is important to understand the rhetorical strategies of political actors in order to be able to counter them in everyday discussions.
Perspectives
I think that understanding the discursive strategies of the far right is very important in times of growing nationalism.
Saskia Schäfer
Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
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This page is a summary of: Political homophobia, Journal of Language and Politics, January 2024, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.22050.sch.
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