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Seminar Andréa Moreira Carmona, UFMG/CES June 17th, 2010, 15:00:00, CES Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, Coimbra Free entrance – Participants will receive a certificate of participation Within Democracy, Multicultural Citizenship and Participation Research Group
Human rights policy towards the defence of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) citizenship and identity affirmation has been implemented through logics of tensions and dialogues between human rights’ universality and sexual rights’ specificity. Against the paradoxes for citizenship exercise within contemporary society, what are the challenges faced by the promotion of human rights as an instrument of dialogue with differences? Does the connection between human rights’ universal policies and social groups’ specific policies contribute to acknowledging all forms of violence towards those segments as violations of human dignity? Within the relationship between social movement demands and the responses developed by public policies, establishing the policy of LGBT citizenship and identity, what concept of human rights’ universality is possible in a political field of conflicts, often antagonist and of difficult consensus with the struggles of those groups which constitute the LGBT movement? The presentation of this seminar at CES has the goal of stimulating a critical analysis of the roles of the State and the organized civil society on the creation and implementation of LGBT policies within the public sphere. Thus, we intend to: - Foster training and discussion on sexual diversity, across the political context of irregular construction and participation, among different actors, in the management of public services within the field of LGBT-related human rights. - Discuss, question and share experiences of public management within LGBT field, focused on the tensions and dialogues between the different social actors intervening in the construction of that policy. Based on these discussions, we intend to emphasize that politics is built from paradoxes, thus being the negotiation of what is impossible. The acknowledgement and maintenance of a necessary tension between universalist and particularist perspectives contributes to the expansion and radicalization of democracy. The integration of a LGBT rights’ policy within a human rights’ policy is vital as a way for politicizing the debate. Keywords: politics, social movements, LGBT, human rights Andréa Moreira Carmona - Andréa Moreira Carmona is a psychologist, holding a Master’s degree in Social Psychology by the Federal University of Minas Gerais, where she is, currently, a Doctoral student under the same subject (since 2009), dedicated to studies on Social and Political Psychology. She benefits from a CAPES grant, with doctoral internship at Centre for Social Studies-CES, at School of Economics of University of Coimbra-FEUC/UC (2010). She is a researcher at the Political Psychology Research Group-NPP/UFMG and at the Human Rights and LGBT Citizenship Research Group-NUH/UFMG. She is a Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais- PUC Minas (since 2007) and also at the University Centre UNA\BH (since 2009). She is, as well, the Municipal Coordinator for Human Rights at Belo Horizonte Prefecture (2005-2008 Management). Her recent publications include: CARMONA, A.M ; PRADO, M. A. M, MACHADO, F.V. A luta pela formalização e tradução da igualdade nas fronteiras indefinidas do estado contemporâneo: radicalização e/ou neutralização do conflito democrático?. Interface: a journal for and about social movements. v. 1, p. 134-165, 2009. CARMONA, A. M. O universal e o particular na política LGBT: tensões e diálogos na esfera pública. In: XV Encontro Nacional da ABRAPSO, 2009, Maceió. Psicologia Social e Políticas de Existência:Fronteiras e Conflitos, 2009. CARMONA, A.M. Uma abordagem psicopolítica sobre o preconceito contra homossexuais- resenha do livro Preconceito contra homossexualidades: a hierarquia da invisibilidade. Pesquisa e Práticas psicossociais, v.3, p.13 – 16, 2008 CARMONA, A. M. Interface Direitos Humanos e Direitos Sexuais: uma estratégia de visibilidade política LGBT. Caderno do Movimento Social LGBT- Projeto Tudo a Ver. Parceria CELLOS/MG, ALEM\MG e Coord. Estadual DST/AIDS, Belo Horizonte, p. 1 - 3, 22 out. 2008. This seminar is organized by: Ana Cristina Santos, CES |