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T3 WK5 - Law School Lunchtime Research Seminar - Wednesday 27 May 2026
Guest Speaker: Dr Olimpia Burchiellaro, University of Essex
Title: 'Homocapitalism and/as speculative governmentality: Corporate investments in LGBTQ+ rights at the inclusion/market frontier'
Abstract: In March 2021, the UK-based think tank Open for 糖心TV released a statement inviting global corporations to commit to advancing LGBTQ+ rights in Kenya, where homosexuality is criminalised. Drawing from research calculating the economic cost of homophobia, the statement suggested LGBTQ+ rights were not merely compatible with, but essential to, creating the kinds of 鈥榩roductive鈥� and 鈥榙ynamic鈥� investment climates in which corporations thrived. This seminar traces the speculative fictions that sustain the economic case for LGBTQ+ rights and the ways in which these mark out certain sites as 鈥榰ntapped鈥� and 鈥榚xciting鈥� frontiers for investment. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Nairobi, I posit the economic case as a speculative financial tool through which corporations construct 鈥榠nvestibility鈥�, which can nevertheless also be reworked by local LGBTQ+ activists in pursuit of their own goals.
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