Abstract (eng)
This diploma thesis deals with Queering Development, a queer perspective on development. Queering Development subsumes approaches, which try to broaden the current development discourse by adding sexuality, a category that has always been inherent to many aspect of development interventions, but rarely been made visible. Rooted in queer theories, which try to analyze critically the connections between sex, gender and desire and denaturalize these categories, Queering Development criticizes heterosexism in development discourse and practice. A lot of development interventions focus on households and (nuclear) families, which leads to the exclusion of non-normative sexualities und propagates a western norm of relationships and nuclear family models. Non-normative sexualities stay invisible, or are only dealt with in connection with HIV/AIDS and are constructed as “deviant other”. These “non-functinal” identities seem to have no space in development and its progress and dynamics. In the second part of this thesis, heteronormativity of development aid is shown, by analyzing the magazine of the German Development Service (DED), the DED-Brief. Using critcal discourse as method, 24 articles from the last fice years were examined: How is sexuality contextualized, how hetereosexuality promoted as global norm, how are genderroles displayed and are there references to non-normative sexualities?