Homophobic Violence in Armed Conflict and Political Transition

• Main Author: Serrano-Amaya, José Fernando (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Global Queer Politics,
• Subjects: Comparative politics.; Terrorism.; Political violence.; Gender identity.; Human rights.; Criminology.; Comparative Politics.; Terrorism and Political Violence.; Gender and Sexuality.; Human Rights and Crime .

This book argues that homophobia plays a fundamental role in disputes for hegemony between antagonists during political transitions. Examining countries not often connected in the same research-Colombia and South Africa-the book asserts that homophobia, as a form of gender and sexual violence, contr...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Sex, Violence and Politics: The Research Problem
• 2. Armed Conflict and Sexual Para-Politics in Colombia
• 3. Homophobia in Apartheid and Post-Apartheid South Africa
• 4.the Chiaroscuro of Sexual Politics
• 5. Telling Truths about Violence
• 6. Gender and Sexual Orders Making the New Society.