Descrizione del progetto
Portare alla luce il passato condiviso e non raccontato dell’oppressione delle persone LGBTI+
In che misura l’UE ha influenzato le forze democratiche nei progressi ottenuti a livello politico locale e socio-legale in materia di diritti, narrazioni ed esperienze LGBTI+ nel corso del tempo? Per rispondere a questa domanda, il progetto TRACE, finanziato dal CER, svilupperà un’innovativa lente di ricerca analitica sensibile all’età. Studierà l’invecchiamento, la discriminazione nei confronti degli anziani e le politiche LGBTI+ legate all’età. L’attenzione si concentrerà sull’Europa meridionale (Portogallo, Italia, Grecia, Malta e Slovenia) e sugli eventi che dimostrano sia i progressi che i contraccolpi nel corso degli anni, attraverso una serie di sfide: dalla criminalizzazione, alla pandemia di AIDS e al relativo stigma, fino alle attuali leggi antidiscriminazione. TRACE utilizzerà un approccio multiscalare incentrato sulle storie di vita degli anziani LGBTI+ e sui processi di invecchiamento legati al genere/sesso nel contesto di un’Europa in rapida evoluzione.
Obiettivo
Sexual and gender diversity are constitutive elements of democratic societies which have been targeted by extreme-right populism and other anti-democratic forces. Taking queer citizenship as a set of criteria through which democracies can be evaluated, TRACE explores the extent to which the EU has influenced local political and socio-legal advancements in LGBTI+ rights, narratives and experiences over time. To respond to this aim, TRACE develops an innovative age-sensitive, analytical lens focused on ageing, ageism and age-related LGBTI+ politics through which progress and backlash in countries that experienced substantial changes in their intimate citizenship regimes will be investigated.
TRACE uses a multiscale life-course approach centred on gendered/sexed processes of ageing in the context of a rapidly changing Europe. LGBTI+ elders carry a unique embodied knowledge of struggle and resistance, offering a precious lens through time, from once criminalized outlaws to the intimate citizens of today’s EU LGBTI-freedom zone, who outlasted a variety of challenges, including the AIDS pandemic and related stigma.
The countries included in this research are Portugal, Italy, Greece, Malta and Slovenia, offering a comprehensive overview of changes across time and space in Europe, including the impacts of religion and secularism, traditional and advanced intimate regimes, and the relation to the EU LGBTI+ evolving framework. With a focus on the South as an imagined political space of silence and resistance, the research enables an in-depth portrait of different regions of Southern Europe today, grounded on the life stories of older adults whose lifespan accompanies these changes. Their shared and untold past of oppression will inform scholarly knowledge regarding current and future policymaking, particularly timely in a rapidly changing Europe grappling with the expansion of populism and anti-gender backlash.
Campo scientifico
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Argomento(i)
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedIstituzione ospitante
3000 995 Coimbra
Portogallo