The politics of love in Myanmar : LGBT mobilization and human rights as a way of life /

The politics of love in Myanmar : LGBT mobilization and human rights as a way of life /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Chua, Lynette J., 1977- author.
Imprint:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019] ©2019
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 207 pages) : map.
Language:	English
Series:	Stanford studies in human rights Stanford studies in human rights.
Subject:	Sexual minorities -- Civil rights -- Burma. Sexual minorities -- Political activity -- Burma. Sexual minorities -- Political activity. Burma. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12018854

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ISBN:	9781503607453 1503607453 9781503602236 9781503607446
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	The Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's post-2011 political transition. Lynette J. Chua explores how these activists devoted themselves to, and fell in love with, the practice of human rights and how they were able to empower queer Burmese to accept themselves, gain social belonging, and reform discriminatory legislation and law enforcement. Informed by interviews with activists from all walks of life--city dwellers, villagers, political dissidents, children of military families, wage laborers, shopkeepers, beauticians, spirit mediums, lawyers, students--Chua details the vivid particulars of the LGBT activist experience founding a movement first among exiles and migrants and then in Myanmar's cities, towns, and countryside. A distinct political and emotional culture of activism took shape, fusing shared emotions and cultural bearings with legal and political ideas about human rights. For this network of activists, human rights moved hearts and minds and crafted a transformative web of friendship, fellowship, and affection among queer Burmese. Chua's investigation provides crucial insights into the intersection of emotions and interpersonal relationships with law, rights, and social movements.
Other form:	Print version: Chua, Lynette J., 1977- Politics of love in Myanmar. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019] 9781503602236

Table of Contents:

List of terms related to queer people, queer cultures, or the LGBT movement in Myanmar
Human rights practice as a way of life
Forming the movement : founding emotions and social ties
Transforming grievances : emotional fealty to human rights
Building community : emotional bonds among activists
Faults, fault lines, and the complexities of agency.