The Queen Boat case in Egypt: sexuality, national security and state sovereignty
The Queen Boat case in Egypt: sexuality, national security and state sovereignty
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埃及女王船案：性、国家安全和国家主权
DOI：
10.1017/s0260210507007346
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
Nicola Pratt
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作者：
Nicola Pratt
在对开罗的同性恋场景视而不见多年之后，政府在2001年5月将同性恋作为目标，本文从人际关系领域与国际关系中的国家安全观之间的联系来研究这一点。男性因所谓的同性关系而受到迫害，不仅充斥了报纸专栏，还制造了一场奇观，转移了人们对政府失误的注意力。更重要的是，这次活动为埃及国内外的政府官员、媒体和其他公民社会活动家 - - 提供了一次机会，让他们“表演”国家安全的话语，通过这种话语，国家主权得以(重新)产生，政治秩序得以维护。然而，这一国家安全威胁不仅来自西方国家政府、国际非政府组织和其他关注埃及境内尊重人权的跨国行为者的外部威胁。更重要的是，这一威胁是由那些不遵守异性关系“规范”的人造成的。
The government’s targeting of homosexuality in May 2001, following years of ‘turning a blind eye’ to Cairo’s gay scene, is studied here in terms of the links between the sphere of interpersonal relations and notions of national security within international relations. The persecution of men for alleged same-sex relations not only filled newspaper columns and created a spectacle to divert people’s attention away from the government’s failings. More importantly, the event represented an opportunity for government officials, the media and other civil society activists – both within Egypt and abroad – to ‘perform’ a discourse of national security through which national sovereignty was (re)produced and political order was maintained. However, this national security threat was not only posed by the external threat of Western governments, international NGOs and other transnational actors concerned with respect for human rights within Egypt. More importantly, this threat was constructed as originating with those people failing to conform to the ‘norm’ of heterosexual relationships.