Sexual Diversity and Human Rights in 21st Century Japan: LGBTIQ Activisms and Resistance from a Transnational Perspective

这个项目调查了跨国LGBTIQ权利运动的出现和在日本对它们的抵抗。LGBTIQ权利作为人权的全球化是国际规范最重大的变化之一。与此同时，新的自由民主准则和人权理念正在激起民族主义和极右翼民粹主义。在这个意义上，LGBTIQ问题揭示了当代民主和人权观念的跨国变化与反对新社会秩序的保守势力之间的社会斗争和谈判。这个项目旨在记录自本世纪头十年以来日本LGBTIQ运动的斗争。它将分析支持和反对LGBTIQ权利的话语，并从跨国的角度探讨日本LGBTIQ权利与日本民族民族主义/保守主义之间的紧张关系。本项目旨在实现三个主要目的，以供进一步研究。首先，它将收集和存档LGBTIQ相关的政治和文化材料。其次，本项目分析了日本支持和反对LGBTIQ的话语，确定了当代社会变化的动力以及日本社会少数群体被包容和排斥的政治逻辑。第三，本项目旨在为讨论日本的性少数群体，特别是未来的LGBTIQ研究提供一个理论和历史基础。通过分析日本支持和反对LGBTIQ的权利话语和运动之间的斗争，该项目旨在促进当代关于人权和正义的辩论，在LGBTIQ政治和人权全球化的时代。

This project investigates the emergence of transnational LGBTIQ rights movements and resistance against them in Japan. The globalisation of LGBTIQ rights as human rights is one of the most significant changes of international norms. At the same time, the new liberal democratic norms and ideas of human rights are arousing nationalism and far-right populism as well. In this sense, LGBTIQ issues reveal contemporary social struggles and negotiations between transnational changes of democratic and human rights ideas and conservative forces against the new social order. This project aims to historicise struggles of LGBTIQ movements in Japan since the 2000s. It will analyse both pro- and anti-LGBTIQ rights discourses and investigate the tense relationship between Japanese LGBTIQ rights and Japanese ethno-nationalism/conservatism from transnational perspectives. This project is designed to achieve three main ends for further research. Firstly, it will collect and archive LGBTIQ-related political and cultural materials. Secondly, analysing pro- and anti-LGBTIQ discourses in Japan, this project identifies dynamisms of contemporary social changes and political logic of inclusion and exclusion of social minorities in Japan. Thirdly, this project seeks to offer a theoretical and historical groundwork for discussion of sexual minorities in Japan, especially for future LGBTIQ research. Through analysing struggles between pro- and anti-LGBTIQ rights discourses and movements in Japan, this project aims to contribute to contemporary debates on human rights and justice in the age of globalising LGBTIQ politics and human rights.