Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences

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• dc.contributor.author Freude, Leon
• dc.contributor.author Waites, Matthew
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-04-15T09:11:23Z
• dc.date.available 2024-04-15T09:11:23Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description.abstract To problematise Western discourses of a homophobic Africa, there is a need to analyse evidence of homophobia and its interplay with other attitudes, in ways that explore contextual differences. Hence, this article offers an original sociological analysis of quantitative data on homophobia in African states, examining how this inter-relates with xenophobia. Social attitudes data are drawn from the Afrobarometer research project as a unique and important source, and compared in five diverse contexts: Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal and Zambia. Data are examined from Round 6 (2014–2015) and Round 7 (2016–2018). Findings are interpreted in light of specific national literatures on the relations between sexuality, gender and nationalism, as well as wider critical and postcolonial perspectives – especially conceptualisation of sexual nationalisms, and recent literatures on political homophobia. Whereas analyses of homonationalism in Western societies have explored alignments of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex rights affirmation with anti-immigrant attitudes, this study explores such relationships between homophobic and xenophobic attitudes in alternative patterns within specific African contexts. The analysis delivered not only challenges Western discourses of generalised African homophobia (especially discussing the counterexample of Mozambique) but also advances understanding of the complexity of how attitudes inter-relate in different postcolonial states.
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• dc.identifier.citation Freude L, Waites M. Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences. Current Sociology. 2023 Jan;71(1):173-95. DOI: 10.1177/00113921221078045
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00113921221078045
• dc.identifier.issn 0011-3921
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59770
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher SAGE Publications
• dc.relation.ispartof Current Sociology. 2023 Jan;71(1):173-95
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• dc.subject.keyword Africa
• dc.subject.keyword Homophobia
• dc.subject.keyword Kenya
• dc.subject.keyword Mozambique
• dc.subject.keyword Nationalism
• dc.subject.keyword Nigeria
• dc.subject.keyword Senegal
• dc.subject.keyword Sexuality
• dc.subject.keyword Xenophobia
• dc.subject.keyword Zambia
• dc.title Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences
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