Description
| Product ID: | 9781793630322 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Decolonizing Queer Experience |
| Subtitle: | LGBT+ Narratives from Eastern Europe and Eurasia |
| Authors: | Author: Emily Channell-Justice |
| Page Count: | 220 |
| Subjects: | Gender studies: ‘trans’, transgender people and gender variance, Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Social and cultural anthropology, Gay & Lesbian studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography |
| Description: | Decolonizing Queer Experience draws from research around the post-socialist world to argue that understanding LGBT+ experience in the region cannot be limited to oppression and violence. Using a decolonizing lens, the contributors explore performance, identity, and political affiliations as essential parts of LGBT+ communities. In Eastern Europe and Eurasia, LGBT+ individuals face repression by state forces and non-state actors who attempt to reinforce their vision of traditional social values. Decolonizing Queer Experience moves beyond discourses of oppression and repression to explore the resistance and resilience of LGBT+ communities who are remaking the post-socialist world; they refuse domination from local heteronormative expectations and from global LGBT+ movements that create and suggest limitations on possible LGBT+ futures. The chapters in this collection feature a multiplicity of LGBT+ voices, suggesting that no single narrative of LGBT+ experience in post-socialism is more representative or informative than another. This collection highlights the globally flexible, infinitely malleable notion of LGBT+ that counters Western hegemony in queer activism and communities. |
| Imprint Name: | Lexington Books |
| Publisher Name: | Lexington Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-09-15 |
