‘If Love Was a Crime, We Would Be Criminals’: The Eurovision Song Contest and the Queer International Politics of Flags

The Study is based on the state as one of the main pillars in international politics. In additions, it tackles its position in the international order from the major schools perspectives in international relations, Especially, these schools differ in the status and priorities of the state according to its priorities, also, each scholar has a different point of view. The research is dedicated to providing a future vision of the state's position in the international order in which based on the vision of the major schools in international relations.

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A narrativa irlandesa no Eurovision Song Contest 2018

Tríade - Revista de Comunicação Cultura e Mídia ◽

10.22484/2318-5694.2019v7n16p194-218 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (16) ◽

Author(s):

Sanio Santos da Silva ◽

Monique Pfau

Keyword(s):

Nation Branding ◽

Eurovision Song Contest

O Eurovision Song Contest é um concurso musical realizado desde 1956, quando teve o intuito de fortalecer os vínculos entre as nações europeias após a II Guerra Mundial. Atualmente, cerca de quarenta países enviam canções ao certame, que é realizado em três noites – duas semifinais e uma final. A Irlanda ainda guarda o recorde de sete vitórias, porém, nos últimos anos, os concorrentes irlandeses não conquistaram bons resultados. Em 2018, depois de quatro edições, o país retorna à final com Ryan O'Shaughnessy, que interpretou Together e explorou a temática LGBT em palco. Essa empreitada pode estar ligada a uma estratégia de nation branding, um processo que edita e exibe a identidade nacional em forma de mídia. O intuito é atrair turistas e apresenta o país como um parceiro econômico interessante. O objetivo do presente trabalho é investigar aspectos relacionados à participação da Irlanda no Eurovision 2018, através de uma análise de conteúdo, observando eventos que precederam e sucederam a apresentação no festival e os possíveis interesses no uso da temática LGBT.

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Life in a ‘No-go Area’

10.1093/oso/9780190656546.003.0006 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Nida Kirmani

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

International Politics ◽

Robin Hood ◽

Geographic Mapping ◽

Academic Study

This chapter by Nida Kirmani offers a rare academic study on Lyari. It historicizes Lyari’s development as a contradictory ‘no-go’ site of resistance, protest and gang warfare. This perspective is organized around two of Lyari’s most notorious protagonists, Rehman Dakait and Uzair Baloch. Drawing on narratives of fear that comprise and interweave into everyday life in Lyari, she analyzes the persistent question of the extent to which gang war constitutes politics, rather than being separate to or an obstacle to politics. Through a portrait of Rehman as a community ‘Robin Hood’ figure, Kirmani’s analysis describes a geographic mapping of the paradox of ‘military-humanitarianism’ at the level of local gang warfare. This both mirrors, and also provokes, some original insights into ways these projects are inextricably linked in national and international politics.

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Against Permanent Sovereignty

10.1093/oso/9780198702726.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Chris Armstrong

Keyword(s):

Natural Resources ◽

International Politics ◽

Local Communities ◽

Status Quo ◽

Nation States ◽

The Status ◽

Made In

The status quo within international politics is that individual nation-states enjoy extensive and for the most part exclusive rights over the resources falling within their borders. Egalitarians have often assumed that such a situation cannot be defended, but perhaps some sophisticated defences of state or national rights over natural resources which have been made in recent years prove otherwise. This chapter critically assesses these various arguments, and shows that they are not sufficient to justify the institution of ‘permanent sovereignty’ over resources. Even insofar as those arguments have some weight, they are compatible with a significant dispersal of resource rights away from individual nation-states, both downwards towards local communities, and upwards towards transnational and global agencies.

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Political Philosophy

10.1093/oso/9780199588367.003.0010 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Michael N. Forster

Keyword(s):

Political Philosophy ◽

Human Rights ◽

International Politics ◽

Domestic Politics ◽

Political Philosopher

Although Herder is not usually known as a political philosopher, he in fact developed what is perhaps the most important political philosophy of his age. In domestic politics he was a liberal, a democrat, and an egalitarian; in international politics the champion of a distinctive pluralistic form of cosmopolitanism that sharply rejected imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and all other forms of exploitation of one people by another. Spanning both domains, while he enthusiastically shared the substantive goals of supporters of human rights he also developed a subtle critique of the concept itself, replacing it with his own concept of humanity. His political philosophy is theoretically minimalist and is all the stronger for being so.

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