Pursuing Social Justice through Public Health: Gender and Sexual Diversity Activism in Malawi.
Pursuing Social Justice through Public Health: Gender and Sexual Diversity Activism in Malawi.
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10.1080/21681392.2017.1283637
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2017-01-01
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McKay, Tara
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Currier, Ashley;McKay, Tara
非洲女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、变性人、双性人和酷儿（LGBTIQ）组织在对性别和性持不同政见者的政治敌意的背景下面临着各种战略困境。在马拉维，一个这样的背景下，我们研究如何LGBTIQ社会运动组织（SMO）在马拉维，中心的人的发展（CEDEP），导航一个特定的战略困境，是否采取一个不那么政治化的公共卫生方法或更灵活的困境，面向基层，社会正义的方法，他们的宣传工作和组织的战略决策的后果。学者们将这些方法解释为组织之间不同的政治参与，社会正义方法表明政治参与，公共卫生方法表明政治脱离。这种差异导致批评者认为，公共卫生方法不适合产生社会和法律的改革，因为它随着时间的推移使LGBTIQ问题去政治化，而社会正义方法则对政治和宗教精英施加持续的压力。利用定性访谈数据与马拉维LGBTIQ活动家和新闻媒体的数据，反映在该国的同性恋公开辩论，我们照亮了这个SMO如何从一个表面上只专注于公共卫生和艾滋病毒/艾滋病的组织蜕变为一个推进社会正义的性别和性持不同政见者。我们认为，了解土著发展的混合战略，整合公共卫生和社会正义的方法。
African lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) organizations face various strategic dilemmas in contexts characterized by political hostility to gender and sexual dissidents. In Malawi, one such context, we examine how an LGBTIQ social movement organization (SMO) in Malawi, the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP), navigated one particular strategic dilemma-the dilemma of whether to adopt a less politicized public-health approach or a more nimble, grassroots-oriented, and social-justice approach to their advocacy work-and the consequences of the organization's strategic decisions. Scholars interpret these approaches as signifying differential political engagement among organizations, with the social-justice approach indicating political engagement and the public-health approach signaling political disengagement. This difference has led critics to argue that a public-health approach is poorly suited to generating social and legal reform because it de-politicizes LGBTIQ issues over time, while a social-justice approach exerts constant pressure on political and religious elites. Drawing on qualitative interview data with Malawian LGBTIQ activists and news media data reflecting public debate around homosexuality in the country, we illuminate how this SMO metamorphosed from an organization ostensibly focused only on public health and HIV/AIDS to one that advances social justice for gender and sexual dissidents. We argue for an understanding of the indigenous development of a hybrid strategy integrating the public-health and social-justice approaches.