Intersecting “Race and Sexual Diversity” in Transnational Advocacy: Local and Global Opportunities and Constraints in Latin American and Caribbean Activism

本项目探讨社会运动在跨国层面上的意义建构，其对运动策略的影响，以及在这一过程中国家和国际政治背景的影响。它旨在理解日常跨国活动实践中国内和全球背景的多重相互联系，重点是框架过程。从跨学科的角度，包括政治科学、政治社会学和政治人类学的讨论，它将调查在国际组织内的倡导中“交叉性”的动员，特别关注一个包含、产生和争论“交叉性”含义的交叉性框架的产生。实证分析将集中在拉丁美洲和加勒比非洲LGBTI网络的建立和行动上，特别关注将该网络理想化的活动家的政治轨迹，活动家所在的国家组织的政治轨迹，他们在美洲国家组织（OAS）中的倡导以及他们在本国的行动。该网络于2017年在哥伦比亚创建，由来自以下国家的组织组成：多米尼加共和国、巴西、秘鲁、哥伦比亚、古巴和美国。该网络将其宣传行动的重点放在美洲国家组织。这个观点是跨学科的，包括政治科学、政治社会学和政治人类学的讨论。研究方法为定性、深度访谈、参与观察和文献分析。

This project addresses meaning construction in social movements on the transnational level, its impacts on movements’ strategies, and the influences of national and international political contexts in this process. It intends to comprehend the multiple interconnections of domestic and global contexts in daily transnational activist practices, concentrating on framing processes. From an interdisciplinary perspective that includes discussions from political science, political sociology, and political anthropology, it will investigate the mobilizations of “intersectionality” in advocacy within international organizations, with special attention to the production of an intersectional frame that encompasses, produces, and disputes meanings of “intersectionality.”The empirical analysis will be concentrated on the founding and the actions of the Afro LGBTI Network of Latin America and the Caribbean, with special attention to the political trajectories of the activists that idealized the network, the political trajectories of the national organizations of which the activists are members, their advocacy in the Organization of the American States (OAS) and their actions in their home country. Created in 2017 in Colombia, the network is composed of organizations from the following countries: the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Cuba and the United States. The network focuses its advocacy actions at the Organization of the American States (OAS).The perspective is interdisciplinary and includes discussions from political science, political sociology, and political anthropology. The methods are qualitative, congregating in-depth interviews, participant observation and documentary analysis.