EU Promotion of Human Rights for LGBTI Persons in Uganda : Translating and Organizing a Wicked Problem

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910799233703321
• Autore: Malmedie Lydia
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2023
• ISBN: 3-031-45826-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (378 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.760973
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Literature -- 7 Human Rights for LGBTI in EU Foreign Policy -- Travels of an Idea -- A Counter Idea -- The Anti-Homosexuality Bill -- A European Parliament Resolution -- Formulating Expectations -- The Ugandan Government Reaction -- Criminalization as the Problem -- Negotiating Neoimperialism -- Further Categorizing the World -- A New Version of the AHB -- Signed and Annulled -- Summary -- Literature -- 8 Dealing with a Wicked Problem in Brussels -- A Highly Contested Topic -- Contesting Contestation -- Making of a Toolkit -- An Action Point with LGBTI Guidelines -- Drafting LGBTI Guidelines -- Adopting Guidelines -- LGBT Becomes LGBTI -- Defining and Redefining the "Problem" in Policy -- From Sexual Orientation to LGBTI -- Establishing the European Union as Savior in the EU Parl Resolutions.; Prosecuting States as the Problem in the LGBT Toolkit -- Contestedness as the "Problem" in the LGBTI Council Guidelines -- Contestedness as a Problem -- Justifying Intervention with Universality -- Legitimizing Action Through a Case-by-Case Approach -- LGBTI Individuals as Rights Holders -- Greater Differentiation -- What Counts as Reliable Knowledge -- Continued Negotiations: The Politics -- Problem Definitions -- "Human Rights Taliban" -- Working with CSOs -- "…They Are Emotional" -- Rationality Rules -- "…Eclipsing Other Rights" -- Stressing Equal Importance -- "The West Against the Rest" -- Silent Diplomacy -- Guidelines on the Guidelines -- Reception -- Summary and Preliminary Analysis -- Literature -- 9 Dealing with a Wicked Problem in Kampala -- A Highly Contested Topic -- Definitions of the Problem -- "It Touches on the Raison d'être" -- Generating and Agreeing on Sense -- Meaning-Making Through Figures -- "They Are Exaggerating" -- Creating Attention -- (Re-)Establishing Themselves as the Experts -- Distributing Information Instead of Consulting -- "It Doesn't Matter What Happens in Uganda" -- Dealing with Headquarters -- Coordinating Embassies -- Three Statements -- "I Also Expected Them to Pay More Attention to Us" -- Continued Engagement with the Government -- Agreeing on Museveni as a Man of Reason -- "We Don't Pay for Our Values" -- Informal ; Threats -- The "Rule Book" -- Written Assurance -- Temporary Stability -- "As Soon as You Have One Dead Body" -- "It's a Matter of Time" -- "They Are Never for Crisis" -- Guidelines on the Guidelines -- Summary and Preliminary Analysis -- Literature -- 10 Conclusion -- Organizing a Wicked Problem -- Explaining Contested Institutional Change -- A Better Grasp of Context -- Attention Hindering Decoupling -- Further Research -- Literature -- Annex A: Methodology -- Grounded Theory Inspired Methodology.; Case Study Design -- Data and Analysis -- Annex B: List of Interviews and Documents -- Annex C: Interviews and Documents Cited -- Annex D: Uganda and Human Rights -- Annex E: List of EU &amp -- Member State Representation in Uganda -- Glossary -- Literature -- Index.