Daniel Conway

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My work is situated at the intersection of Feminist International Relations, political sociology and queer theory, focusing on the politics of LGBTQ+ rights and activism. My latest book 'The Queer Politics of Pride: Global LGBTQ+ Activism and Homocapitalism' draws from extensive ethnographic fieldwork at Pride events in South Africa, South and East Asia, Cuba and New York.

I am committed to real world impacts from my research and have developed an LGBTQ+ Rights Foreign Policy and Diplomacy Toolkit: A Report on Diplomatic Practice in South Africa. This builds on my work with the UK High Commission to South Africa and the GALA Queer Archive to connect grassroots LGBTQ+ activists in South Africa with diplomatic, NGO funders and policy makers

My earlier work on white South African conscientious objectors and white anti-apartheid activists explored how militarisation was gendered and how contesting this process was destabilising for the state, but also subject to significant pressures to appear respectable and to conform with the heteronormative logics of the state. I have also explored how accounts of anti-war activism contribute to white liberal discourses that seek to obscure and reconstitute white privilege in South Africa. I extended this interest in whiteness as a mode of privilege in my co-authored monograph on the everyday lives of white British-born migrants in South Africa. This qualitative project investigated British migrants transnational (and national), raced and classed identities as well as experience of places, spaces and belonging.

I am a Research Associate at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand.

Experience

  • 2015–present
    Reader in Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster
  • 2025–present
    Research Associate, University of the Witwatersrand
  • 2007–2015
    Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, The Open University

Education

  • 2006 
    Rhodes University, PhD Politics
  • 2001 
    University of Bristol, MSc in International Relations
  • 1999 
    University of Exeter, BA(Hons) in History and Politics

Publications

  • 2025
    The Queer Politics of Pride: Global LGBTQ+ Activism and Homocapitalism, Bloomsbury Academic
  • 2025
    Rainbow diplomacy: LGBTQ+ rights and everyday diplomatic practice at Pride, International Affairs
  • 2024
    Conceptualising queer activist critiques of Pride in the Two-Thirds World: Queer activism and alternative Pride organising in South Africa, Mumbai, Hong Kong and Shanghai, Sexualities
  • 2024
    The politics of truth at LGBTQ+ Pride: contesting corporate Pride and revealing marginalized lives at Hong Kong Migrants Pride, International Feminist Journal of Politics
  • 2023
    Whose Lifestyle Matters at Johannesburg Pride? The Lifestylisation of LGBTQ+ Identities and the Gentrification of Activis, Sociology
  • 2014
    Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British in South Africa, Palgrave
  • 2012
    Masculinities, militarisation and the End Conscription campaign War resistance in apartheid South Africa, Manchester University Press and Wits University Press

Grants and Contracts

  • 2018
    The Global Politics of Pride
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    Leverhulme Trust

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