L5 LGBTQI + Socio-Economic

Question 1

Key Findings (Anne Schotel)

Answer 1

LGBTQI+ have to navigate a whole host of realms - visibility/invisibility, intersectional identities

Focus on symbolic representation:

Identity formation = mediated by medical, legal, anti-gender…

political control = tensions between registration + state, access to healthcare

legitimacy = respectability politics and the perceptions of ‘ability to rule’

symbolic leads onto substantive + descriptive! creates ‘rules of the game’

Question 2

Amara Hammou: Research approach

Answer 2

Interviews with people in socio-economically difficult positions in Brussels on how they understand representation: bottom up approach

Question 3

Amara Hammou: Findings

Answer 3

Viewed as problem-solving: getting solutions to the problems they experience

• Pragmatic way of thinking: politicians have to solve
  the problems because they have the money,
  decision-making power, elected/mandate
• To solve problems, representatives need lived and
  field experience; is lacking; ‘incompetent’
  (knowledge issue)
• Descriptive representation not possible