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The Great Refusal: The Global Politics of Homosexuality

The Great Refusal: The Global Politics of Homosexuality

Ferguson, Jason L.

Hardcover

Series: Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology

General Gender StudiesGLBTQIA StudiesSocial Movements

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 3, 2026

ISBN10: 0691279772
ISBN13: 9780691279770
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Nov 3 2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

What happens when the West interferes in the sexual politics of postcolonial Global South nations

Since the end of the Cold War, many Western nations have increasingly sought to integrate gay rights into their diplomacy, foreign policy, and international development programs. In The Great Refusal, Jason Ferguson examines what happens when pro-gay Western forces intervene in the sexual politics of countries around the world, especially in the postcolonial Global South. He finds that these interventions have unintended consequences, as the global clashes with the local. They create tension and divide nation-states from within, undermine local democratic structures and the collective conscience, and, paradoxically, fan the flames of resentment against the West, against gay rights, and against gay people.

Ferguson's mixed-method and multiscalar account of what he terms the geopoliticization of homosexuality and gay rights offers an in-depth analysis of a single case: Senegal, where attempted global intervention exacerbated the very problem it meant to solve. Drawing on a wide range of data, including ethnographies, archival materials, and literature, and moving among global, national, and subnational levels, Ferguson demonstrates how such uninvited interventions ultimately turn homosexuality into a vector through which local populations express their broader resentments against the West. Global interventionism, he argues, has turned same-sex loving people into scapegoats of the twenty-first century.

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