Overview

Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights investigates the transformative impacts of global development's sexual rights agenda on queer politics and activism in Ghana. With queer men bearing a disproportionate burden of HIV in Africa, rights-based health interventions have sought to tackle the epidemic by bringing together, educating, and ‘empowering’ queer African communities. Gore argues that queer Ghanaian men are not benefiting from development’s turn to sexual health and sexual rights. Instead, HIV and other sexual rights–based initiatives operate through neoliberal paradigms that reinforce class divides and de-politicize queer struggle. These dynamics are further shaping and shaped by the politicization of homophobia within the contemporary Ghanaian state. Gore combines original ethnography, documentary analysis, and the examination of development and global health data to connect the struggle for queer liberation in Ghana to broader trajectories of capitalist transformation and crisis and the afterlives of colonialism. In doing so, Between HIV Prevention and LGBTI Rights offers fascinating insights into the political economy of sexuality and global development for scholars, activists, and policymakers seeking to understand and address sexual injustice and oppression, both in Africa and beyond. The open access edition of this book was made possible through the support of the Economic and Social Research Council (UK).

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""The book brings intense urgency to calls for multiplicitous and transnational movements for queer liberation. Date is combined with a wealth of academic scholarship and sources to elucidate political and economic developments in Ghana and beyond."" -- Journal of Development Studies ""This detailed and thoughtful fieldwork study by a political economist explores a third factor within this intricate interaction: the ways that aid agendas of international organizations focused on preventing the spread of HIV have impacted (and failed to impact) the lives of working-class queer men in Ghana. Summing up: Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals."" -- Choice

""The book brings intense urgency to calls for multiplicitous and transnational movements for queer liberation. Date is combined with a wealth of academic scholarship and sources to elucidate political and economic developments in Ghana and beyond.""--Journal of Development Studies

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Ellie Gore is a Lecturer in Global Political Economy at the University of Manchester.

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