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BinaryTech in motion : The sexgender in the European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence
Authors: Aalto Juho
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publishing place: Cambridge
Publication year: 2024
Journal: Leiden Journal of International Law
Journal acronym: LJIL
Volume: 37
Issue: 3
First page : 630
Last page: 648
ISSN: 0922-1565
eISSN: 1478-9698
DOI: https://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 address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/404628238
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.