Abstract

This article furthers the scholarship on homo-developmentalism by analysing a recent discursive shift in the homo-developmentalist discourse from conditionality to a new narrative of convergence. Appearing in several recent research reports published by various development agencies, this narrative describes the relationship between LGBT rights and economic development as one that is mutually constitutive. This article interrogates how the narrative of convergence was constructed by attending to the indicators utilised in the various research reports and considers the implications of this discursive shift in terms of how it sustains the development project and Western civilisational exceptionalism through the construction of a new binary of LGBT-inclusive/LGBT-phobic. It concludes with a brief discussion on negotiating the complex entanglements of Western imperialism in pursuing the advancement of human flourishing.

摘要

本文通过分析近来在同质发展主义话语中从条件性到新的趋同叙事的话语转变，进一步推动了同质发展主义的学术研究。这种叙述出现在各个发展机构最近发表的几份研究报告中，将 LGBT 权利与经济发展之间的关系描述为一种相互构成的关系。本文通过关注各种研究报告中使用的指标来询问如何构建趋同的叙述，并考虑这种话语转变在它如何通过构建新的二元关系来维持发展项目和西方文明例外主义方面的影响。 LGBT 包容性/LGBT 恐惧症。