van Klinken, AS orcid.org/0000-0003-2011-5537 (2018) Citizenship of Love: The Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics of Sexual Citizenship in a Kenyan Gay Music Video. Citizenship Studies, 22 (6). pp. 650-665. ISSN 1362-1025
Abstract
Against the background of the current politicisation of homosexuality and the policing of sexual citizenship in Kenya and other African countries, this article offers an analysis of the Kenyan gay music video Same Love, released by the band Art Attack in 2016. Employing the concept of acts of citizenship (Isin and Nielsen 2008), the article foregrounds the political, ethical and aesthetic aspects through which the lyrics and images of Same Love perform an act of sexual citizenship mediated through art. It argues that as an artistic intervention, the video interrogates popular narratives of homosexuality as un-Kenyan, un-African and un-Christian and creates a sense of a citizenship that is yet to come: a pan-African, Christian and queer citizenship of love. Thus, the article explores the new possibilities of cultural, sexual and religious citizenship created through popular culture and public space in contemporary Africa.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Citizenship Studies on 11 Jul 2018, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2018.1494901. |
Keywords: | sexual citizenship; Christianity; Kenya; homosexuality; gay rights; music video; Same Love; citizenship; religion; sexuality; queer; Africa |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > Theology and Religious Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 24 Apr 2018 09:39 |
Last Modified: | 11 Jan 2020 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13621025.2018.1494901 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:129902 |