RT Article
T1 Countering illegibility: Religion, ethnicity and sexuality in public debates and lived experience in Belgium
JF Culture and religion
VO 19
IS 1
SP 62
OP 89
A1 Brandt, Nella van den
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1570299021
AB In this article, I set out to explore various intersectional social constructions of ethnicity, religion and sexuality. First, I conduct an analysis of recent public controversies in Flanders (Belgium) about women's and (homo)sexual equality as set against religious authorities and religious-ethnic minorities. It reveals how dominant understandings of ethnicity, sexuality and religion are constructed, reinforced and, if needed, defended. Second, I foreground a critical counter-voice negotiating these what I call ‘ethno-sexular' boundary constructions. I analyse the lived experiences of Hajar, a volunteer of an antiracist LGBTQI organisation located in Brussels, and argue that because of a dominant ethno-sexular discourse, Hajar's hybrid identifications and critical voice is made illegible in much of her social environment.
K1 counter-voice
K1 Ethnicity
K1 Public discourse
K1 Religion-secularity
K1 Sexuality
DO 10.1080/14755610.2017.1413409