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BinaryTech in motion : The sexgender in the European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence




AuthorsAalto Juho

PublisherCambridge University Press

Publishing placeCambridge

Publication year2024

JournalLeiden Journal of International Law

Journal acronymLJIL

Volume37

Issue3

First page 630

Last page648

ISSN0922-1565

eISSN1478-9698

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156524000141

Web address https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/leiden-journal-of-international-law/article/binarytech-in-motion-the-sexgender-in-the-european-court-of-human-rights-jurisprudence/EE6A9E6740B69CEAB42B7918F5479F41

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/404628238


Abstract

Sexgender has become politicized by neo-conservative and populist movements in Europe and elsewhere. This article explores how the sexgender binary is foundational to the social and material construction of the non-heterosexual legal subject and unveils binary hierarchies embedded therein. Furthermore, it develops a new materialist methodology called BinaryTech, which exposes the binary formulas of inequality and difference in the Court’s jurisprudence. This new materialist approach, based on Karen Barad’s agential realism, is used to critically examine how differences are produced as stable features of subjects and objects. The human of the Convention being heterosexual is thereby the result, constructed on material-discursive differentiation of non-heterosexuals. The article concludes by describing how new materialist interventions and Nordic feminist perspectives on law can offer valuable insights within the emerging material turn.


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I am grateful for research grants from Suomalainen Lakimiesyhdistys ry (Finnish Lawyers’ Association) and Turun yliopistosäätiö (Turku University Foundation) and part-time employment by the University of Turku Faculty of Law.


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