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Journal of Language and Politics: Online-First ArticlesPolitical homophobia
The rise of anti-queer rhetoric in Indonesia and Turkey
This article comparatively analyses the rise of anti-LGBT rhetoric in Indonesia and Turkey in the 2010s and early
2020s. In both countries, periods of greater public visibility of LGBTQ+ people in the early 2000s were followed by waves of
severe anti-LGBT rhetoric, violence, and legal measures. This analysis focusses on the rhetoric that conservative state and
non-state actors use to other non-heteronormative people and to exclude them from the nation or “the people”. My main argument is
that state and non-state actors conduct othering of LGBTQ+ people and construct them as dangerous threats to the nation and to the
structure of the family. The anti-LGBT narratives are integrated into larger conspiracy narratives of foreign powers undermining
the nation.
Keywords: Homophobia, Nationalism, Turkey, Indonesia, LGBTQ
Article outline
- 1.Political homophobia: The rhetoric of exclusion in the cases of Indonesia and Turkey
- 2.Approach and methodology
- 3.Political background and literature overview
- 4.Turning the tide: Historical context and key discursive events
- 4.1Similarities
- 4.2Differences
- 4.3Actor landscape
- 4.4Covert hate speech
- 5.Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
-
References
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