This article proposes a new critical framework for analysing transnational human rights-claiming and contestation: a ‘critical model of the boomerang effect’, that can embody sociological understanding and insights from decolonizing analyses. The article develops a critique of Keck and Sikkink’s well-known model of the ‘boomerang effect’, from politics and international relations. The new critical model is needed to analyse contestations including global queer politics, particularly to examine where and how actors in formerly or currently colonized states from the Global South can draw on the United Nations human rights system. The new model requires analysis of four themes, with a decolonizing enquiry applied to each: (1) articulation of human rights; (2) social structures and resources; (3) socio-cultural contexts; and (4) subjectivation. These themes are examined to illuminate two pivotal cases claiming decriminalization of same-sex sexual acts: Caleb Orozco in Belize, and Jason Jones in relation to Trinidad and Tobago – generating a new research agenda.

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去殖民化全球酷儿政治中的回旋镖效应：人权争论社会学分析的新批判框架

本文提出了一个新的分析跨国人权主张和争论的批判框架：“回旋镖效应的批判模型”，它可以体现非殖民化分析的社会学理解和洞察力。这篇文章从政治和国际关系出发，对 Keck 和 Sikkink 著名的“回旋镖效应”模型进行了批判。需要新的批判模型来分析包括全球酷儿政治在内的争论，特别是检查来自全球南方的以前或现在的殖民地国家的行为者可以在哪里以及如何利用联合国人权系统。新模型需要对四个主题进行分析，并对每个主题进行非殖民化调查：(1) 人权的阐述；(2) 社会结构和资源；(3) 社会文化背景；(4) 主观化。