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EU Promotion of Human Rights for LGBTI Persons in Uganda

Translating and Organizing a Wicked Problem

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Authors:
  1. Lydia Malmedie

    1. Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

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  • offers a new angle on studying 'wicked problems', provides key insights into processes of translation and sensemaking
  • Examines the EU's promotion of human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans+, and intersex (LGBTI) persons in Uganda
  • Investigates how a public administration defines and deals with a wicked problem

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Lydia Malmedie
    Pages 1-20

  3. A Wicked Problem and Its Travels in a Modern World

    • Lydia Malmedie
    Pages 21-58

  4. The European Union as a Modern Empire

    • Lydia Malmedie
    Pages 59-78

  5. Contested Human Rights

    • Lydia Malmedie
    Pages 79-94

  6. From Deviant Sexuality to LGBTI

    • Lydia Malmedie
    Pages 95-114

  7. The EU as a Complex Modern Organization

    • Lydia Malmedie
    Pages 115-147

  8. Human Rights for LGBTI in EU Foreign Policy

    • Lydia Malmedie
    Pages 149-177

  9. Dealing with a Wicked Problem in Brussels

    • Lydia Malmedie
    Pages 179-243

  10. Dealing with a Wicked Problem in Kampala

    • Lydia Malmedie
    Pages 245-306

  11. Conclusion

    • Lydia Malmedie
    Pages 307-318

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 319-368
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About this book

Examining the EU's promotion of human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans+ and intersex (LGBTI) persons in Uganda during the period of 2009 to 2017, this book investigates how a public administration defines and deals with a wicked problem. The empirical puzzle of how the topic of human rights for LGBTI persons, despite its highly contested nature, travelled between Brussels and Kampala, became codified in form of LGBTI Guidelines (2013) and institutionalized within EU foreign policy is addressed as one of translation and sensemaking. The investigation focuses on the process of problem definition in everyday practice by EU staff and EU member states’ staff in Brussels and Kampala. This book therefore provides key insights into how public administrations deal with wicked problems, how contested ideas can become institutionalized and how an idea is translated and made sense of across time, levels and cultural boundaries. The findings are of interest especially to scholars of wicked problems, sociological new institutionalism and public administration as well as international relations and EU studies, human rights, gender and sexuality studies.


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“Reflecting on the policy and institutional implications of "wicked problems" in transnational perspectives, Lydia Malmedie slices open Uganda-EU's relations to reveal the interstices of policy adaptation and adoption as outcomes of sensemaking in contentious transnational debates. Africana queer studies will benefit from picking up a similar mantel of sociological "sensemaking" to deepen the field's potential of inducing broader institutional transformations not limited to identity recognition and protection only.”

S.N. Nyeck, Associate Professor of Political Economy and Africana Studies, University of Colorado Boulder.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Lydia Malmedie

About the author

Lydia Malmedie has an interdisciplinary background in political science, human rights, media and comparative literature and organizational sociology. Lydia has published on topics such as sexual orientation and gender, nondiscrimination, EU policies, and advocacy in social work. She completed her doctorate as a member of the Research Training Group on Wicked Problems - Contested Administrations: Knowledge, Coordination, Strategy (WIPCAD) at the Department of Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Potsdam, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Prior to academia Lydia worked at Stonewall UK, a human rights organization for LGBT equality. Today, Lydia champions LGBTI issues and rights within the public administration in Berlin, Germany, and is a lecturer in human rights and social work. 

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