| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 368 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Central Argument and Contributions -- Contributions -- Methodology -- Positioning -- Structure -- Literature -- 2 A Wicked Problem and Its Travels in a Modern World -- The Wickedness of the Problem -- The EU as a Complex Modern Organization in Flux -- The Uncertainty and Hot-Buttoned Nature of Human Rights for LGBTI People -- Ambiguity of Normative Principles Versus Accusations of Neoimperialism -- The Problem Definition as Key -- The Travel of Ideas |
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Translating and Sensemaking as Organizing -- Translating Ideas -- Re-embedding Through Sensemaking -- Sensemaking as Organizing -- Noticing Something as New -- Categorizing and Setting a Course for Action -- (En)acting as Changing the Environment That Changes Actors -- Making Sense of Wicked Problems -- Contestation and Institutional Change -- Summary -- Literature -- 3 The European Union as a Modern Empire -- Systems of Difference -- The End of Colonialism, the Continuation of Imperialism -- European Communities and Colonial Territories -- Producing and Using Authoritative Knowledge |
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Uganda in Figures -- Development Cooperation -- Summary -- Literature -- 4 Contested Human Rights -- A New Equality Discourse, Leading to a Nation-State Model -- Rights Qua Personhood -- From a New Equality Discourse to the Nation-State Model -- A New Category of Human -- Differentiation of the Category of Human -- Human Rights' Impact on Development -- Human Rights as a Global Norm -- Contested "Western" Human Rights -- The Dilemma of Human Rights Promotion Beyond State Sovereignty -- Summary -- Literature -- 5 From Deviant Sexuality to LGBTI -- Sex and Gender During the Modern Period |
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Toward the Autonomous Gendered and Sexual Individual -- Knowing About Sex, Relationships, and Sexuality in "Africa" -- Legal Norms and Their Legacy -- Africa on the Rainbow Map -- Threat to the Nation Versus Self-Determination -- Decriminalization and Demedicalization -- Self-determination and Human Rights -- The Success of LGBTI -- An Acronym and Its Meaning(s) -- LGBTI as a Compound Cultural Category in Flux -- Summary -- Literature -- 6 The EU as a Complex Modern Organization -- The EU Today as a Meta Organization and a Focal Organization -- EU as a Meta Organization |
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EU as a Focal Organization -- The Effects of Formal Structures -- LGBTI at the EU -- Human Rights and LGBTI Within the Structures of DEVCO and EEAS -- European Union Delegation and Member State Embassies in Uganda -- Human Rights and LGBTI in the EU Delegation and Embassies in Uganda -- Economic Underpinnings of a Normative Union -- One EU, Three Pillars -- Human Rights Become Part of EU Primary Law -- Fundamental Rights as the EU's "Almost Constitution" -- Aiming for Coherence -- Coherence Within the EU -- Coherence Between the Internal and External Dimensions -- The EU's Legitimacy Under Threat |
| Summary |
Examining the EU's promotion of human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans+ and intersex (LGBTI) persons in Uganda during the period of 2009 to 2017, this book investigates how a public administration defines and deals with a wicked problem. The empirical puzzle of how the topic of human rights for LGBTI persons, despite its highly contested nature, travelled between Brussels and Kampala, became codified in form of LGBTI Guidelines (2013) and institutionalized within EU foreign policy is addressed as one of translation and sensemaking. The investigation focuses on the process of problem definition in everyday practice by EU staff and EU member states staff in Brussels and Kampala. This book therefore provides key insights into how public administrations deal with wicked problems, how contested ideas can become institutionalized and how an idea is translated and made sense of across time, levels and cultural boundaries. The findings are of interest to scholars of wicked problems, sociological new institutionalism and public administration as well as international relations and EU studies, human rights, gender and sexuality studies. Lydia Malmedie has an interdisciplinary background in political science, human rights, media and comparative literature and organizational sociology. Lydia has published on topics such as sexual orientation and gender, nondiscrimination, EU policies, and advocacy in social work. She completed her doctorate as a member of the Research Training Group on Wicked Problems - Contested Administrations: Knowledge, Coordination, Strategy (WIPCAD) at the Department of Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Potsdam, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Prior to academia Lydia worked at Stonewall UK, a human rights organization for LGBT equality. Today, Lydia champions LGBTI issues and rights within the public administration in Berlin, Germany, and is a lecturer in human rights and social work. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 9, 2024) |
| Subject |
Gay rights -- Uganda
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| SUBJECT |
Uganda -- Foreign relations -- European Union countries
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European Union countries -- Foreign relations -- Uganda
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031458262 |
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3031458265 |
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