Wednesday 11 April 2012 at 09:30 - 11:30 LAW, CRIME AND RIGHTS


Waites, M. Global Queer Politics and Human Rights: Towards a More Sociological Analysis


The use of human rights discourses by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movements has contributed to developments such as South Africa’s resolution addressing discrimination and violence faced in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity, endorsed at the UN Human Rights Council on 17 June 2011.


It has also


contributed to positive developments in many states, such as the partial decriminalisation of same-sex sexual behavior in India in 2009.


nationalisms and religious beliefs.


Yet in many other states there remains resistance, often entwined with post-colonial National empirical research on LGBT issues is increasing, but at an


international level there remains scope for a more developed sociological interpretation of how human rights claims are operating, relating dynamics within states to transnational processes. In this paper I will seek to develop the international sociological analysis of sexual orientation, gender identity and human rights by drawing together themes from the sociology of human rights and queer theory with national empirical case studies in recent international collections, and with primary research on specific states (eg. India and UK). I will attempt to move beyond existing global analyses through a focus on distinguishing between decriminalisation struggles and broader human rights struggles. Such distinctions rarely receive sustained attention in theoretical conceptualisations of the global contestation of sexual orientation and gender identity. Relative to accounts of homonationalism and human rights discourses emerging from cultural studies, the sociology of human rights might yield a more multi-leveled analysis.


Karapehlivan Senel, F. Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey Combining Different Levels of Analysis for the Realisation of the Right to Education


This paper aims to contribute to the emerging field of sociology of human rights by exploring the gap in formal recognition and substantive enjoyment of the right to education and to discuss the contributions of a sociological analysis for the realisation of this right. It will be argued that we need to supplement the legal theory and normative principles of the right to education with sociological theories of education and social policy. Moreover it is also necessary to change the way we study and analyse the right to education by looking at not only the macro level and provision side of it, but also by looking at the micro level and enjoyment side of the right to education. In other words we need to look at the relationships between global, national and local levels and to combine different levels of analysis in order to have a better understanding of the social reality we are studying. The specific concern of this paper is the introduction of market relations into primary education and their implications on the right to education in Turkey. In this paper, it will be argued that the restructuring of state-education relationships has had implications on the right to education in Turkey by creating new forms of inequalities in education. It will focus on the consequences of macro polices in micro level, namely on individual schools, teachers, parents and students by drawing on the micro level qualitative research conducted in two primary schools in Ankara.


Booker, M. University of Edinburgh


State-building Processes under the Microscope: What 1830s Corruption Discourses Tell Us about the Modern State


With the Election Reform Act of 1832 and the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835, the 1830s provide important switch points for the development of measures against political corruption in Britain. This presentation analyses everyday newspaper discourses on corruption in the 1830s, and shows how the discourses were connected to different aspects of (macro-historical) state-building processes. It starts with a short quantitative assessment of the frequency of corruption discourses in British newspapers, using the recently published British Library 19th century newspaper database. This new data confirms that growing corruption debates in the early 1830s preceded anti- corruption legislation. This could suggest that these important steps in the institutionalisation of the modern state were influenced by public, and more precisely, newspaper pressure. A second, qualitative step sheds more light on this assumed connection. Selected newspaper articles are analysed as to why they were critical of what kind of corruption and what aspects they were especially critical of. This is then related to the publication itself, in particular the respective ownership, and its political orientation. The analysis reveals a number of the cleavages inherent in statebuilding processes, among others new elites vs. old elites, centre vs. periphery and the institutionalisation of the state bureaucracy vs. resistance against it, both from sections of the ruling elites and the landed elites. Combining the findings from both quantitative and qualitative analysis thus offers detailed insights into how exactly some state-building processes unfolded in Britain.


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ROGER STEVENS 04 University of Glasgow


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