Book Discussion - The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life

Abstract

Lynette Chua’s new book, The Politics of Love: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life, enhances our understanding of the politics of human rights by exploring how affect or emotion influences legal consciousness and legal mobilization. It demonstrates the development of the movement’s networks and describes a social process that has moved activists’ hearts, pushing them to take action and transforming their lives. I will discuss four aspects highlighted in the book: emotion culture, social belonging, personhood transformation, and emotion pluralities.