Legal Wounds: The Meaning of Human Rights for Lesbians and Gay Men in Russia

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Alexander Kondakov
Centre for Independent Social Research

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This article discusses the production of lesbians and gay men as subjects of human rights discourse in Russia. Conclusions are drawn from discourse analysis of group discussions and life history interviews with St. Petersburg lesbians and gay men. I base my analysis on the methodological concept of the “legal wound” which makes it possible to show the legal situation of the subjects that personify human rights discourse in contemporary Russia. In Russian, extended summary in English.

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Human Rights, Lesbians and Gay Men, Legal Wound


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Kondakov, A. (2013). Legal Wounds: The Meaning of Human Rights for Lesbians and Gay Men in Russia. Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, 4(3), 84–104. Retrieved from https://www.soclabo.org/index.php/laboratorium/article/view/10
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Vol. 4 No. 3 (2012)
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Author Biography

Alexander Kondakov, Centre for Independent Social Research

Alexander Kondakov is a sociologist and researcher at the Centre for Independent Social Research in St. Petersburg. In 2010, Alexander obtained his Masters of Arts in sociology of law from the International Institute for the Sociology of Law. He is a member of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Sociology of Law. Since 2012, Kondakov has been vice president of the St. Petersburg Association of Sociologists. His research interests include the sociology of human rights, sexuality and citizenship, subjective strategies of political action, and discourse analysis.

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