In this event, Phillip Ayoub will discuss his newly published co-authored book, The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights: How Transnational Conservative Networks Target Sexual and Gender Minorities.

The book shows how an increasingly interconnected and globally networked resistance, backed by religious-nationalist elements and conservative governments, has emerged to challenge LGBTI and women's rights around the world, even seeking to reinterpret and co-opt international human rights law. The book draws on more than a decade of in-depth fieldwork and more than 240 interviews with LGBTI activists, anti-LGBTI proponents, and various state and international organisation actors, exploring the mechanisms and strategies employed by the conservative transnational movement, and seeking to understand its composition and the construction of its agenda.

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Meet our speaker and chair:

Phillip M Ayoub is Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at UCL. His research bridges insights from international relations and comparative politics, engaging with literature on transnational politics, sexuality and gender, norm diffusion, and the study of social movements. He is interested in how the transnational mobilisation of marginalised peoples and international channels of visibility influence socio-legal change across states. 

Chair:

Milli Lake is Associate Professor of International Relations at LSE. She works on state-society relations, human rights, gender, and political violence.

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The Department of International Relations (@LSEIRDept) at LSE is now in its 97th year, and is one of the oldest as well as largest IR departments in the world, with a truly international reputation. The Department is ranked 2nd in the UK and 5th in the world in the QS World University Ranking by Subject 2024 tables for Politics and International Studies.