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The Queen Boat case in Egypt: sexuality, national security and state sovereignty
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Pratt, Nicola Christine. (2007) The Queen Boat case in Egypt: sexuality, national security and state sovereignty. Review of International Studies, Vol.33 (No.1). pp. 129-144. ISSN 0260-2105
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0260210507007346
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Male homosexuality -- Law and legislation -- Egypt, Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Islam, National security -- Egypt, Human rights -- Egypt, Interpersonal relations and culture -- Egypt, Sovereignty, Egypt -- Social conditions |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Review of International Studies |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISSN: | 0260-2105 |
| Official Date: | January 2007 |
| Volume: | Vol.33 |
| Number: | No.1 |
| Page Range: | pp. 129-144 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0260210507007346 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/1093 |
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