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Abstract

 Over the last century, approaches to queerness has moved through major transformations, from religious persecution, to pathologisation, to biological outlier, to mental illness. Recent decades have seen radical progress towards equality in some parts of the globe, whilst in others, LGBT+ people are criminalised and persecuted. At the same time, the process of decolonisation has been underway, the slow move toward independence for the former colonies has marked great change from the legacies of Europe’s domination, but in the states still occupied by European settler, liberation for indigenous people is far from home. At the cross roads of these struggles for justice, this dissertation will analyse the histories of queer indigenous people in the former settler colonies of the British Empire, exploring the epistemicide of gender and sexual diversity amongst indigenous populations through the enforcement of eurocentric knowledge through the mode of colonialism. Informed by an exploration of the physical and metaphysical states of colonial settler nations, and analysis of the role of colonialism and heteropatriarchy in the formation of identity and its contentions, and an examination of the impacts colonialism made on modern development practice, this dissertation will culminate in the proposal of a three stage framework focused on indigeneity and holistic application designed to aid in the decolonisation of international development’s approaches to queer indigenous rights, concluding that the radical decolonisation of the self, the state and development itself will begin the process of queer indigenous justice and liberation.

Course: International Development Studies (DL) - MSC - P2517PTD

Date Deposited: 2024-02-08

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