Overview

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.

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Author:   Emily Channell-Justice ,  Feruza Aripova ,  Emily Channell-Justice ,  Vitaly Chernetsky
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.322kg
ISBN:  

9781793630322

ISBN 10:   1793630321
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   15 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface: Vitaly Chernetsky Introduction: Of Constatives, Performatives, and Disidentifications: Decolonizing Queer Critique in Post-socialist Times (5606) Tamar Shirinian and Emily Channell-Justice Section 1: The Categories Themselves Chapter 1: Body Politics, Trans*Imaginary, and Decoloniality (6859) Tjaša Kancler Chapter 2: Queering Categories: Recognition, Misrecognition, and Identity Politics in Armenia (7753) Tamar Shirinian Chapter 3: Escaping the Dichotomies of ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’: Chronotopes of Queerness in Kyrgyzstan (6815) Syinat Sultanaieva Section 2: Queer in Public Chapter 4: LGBT+ Rights, European Values, and Radical Critique: Leftist Challenges to LGBT+ Mainstreaming in Ukraine (7922) Emily Channell-Justice Chapter 5: Queering the Soviet Pribaltika: Criminal Cases of Consensual Sodomy in Soviet Latvia (1960s-1980s) (7796) Feruza Aripova Chapter 6: Queer People and the Criminal Justice System in Ukraine: Negotiating Relationships, Historical Trauma and Contemporary Western Discourses (7655) Roman Leksikov Section 3: Decolonizing Queer Performance Chapter 7: Stifled Monstrosities: Gender-Transgressive Motifs in Kazakh Folklore (7553) Zhanar Sekerbayeva Chapter 8: “Pugacheva for the People”: Two Portraits of Non-Urban Post-Soviet Queer Performers (7751) Kārlis Vērdiņš and Jānis Ozoliņš Chapter 9: Religious Experiences in Life Stories of Homosexuals and Bisexuals in Russia (6577) Polina Kislitsyna Conclusion: Emily Channell-Justice (1820)

Reviews

This edited volume adds to the existing literature on LGBT+ issues in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and does so within the particular theoretical framing of decolonization. Previous scholarship has placed much emphasis on global movements and normative identities without examining the ways these are specifically iterated within local contexts. The inclusion of Central Asia and the Caucasus is particularly welcome given the history of those regions vis-a-vis the Russian Empire and Soviet Union more broadly, within the context of colonization. While this book's nine essays are all grounded in particular field sites and historical events, they move beyond mere description to explore the ways that experience, performance, and identity intersect.... [Readers] with the necessary regional and theoretical background will find much to appreciate. Recommended. * Choice * The ethnographic and historical essays in this collection beautifully combine queer and decolonial theory to unearth and unpack a variety of forms of queerness in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. From bad girl lesbian activists in Kyrgyzstan to consensual sodomy' in Soviet Latvia back to gender transgression in Kazakh folklore then forward to the contemporary queer pairing of religion and LGBTQ persons in Russia, these essays deepen our understanding of queer lives in a part of the world that is too often constructed as uniformly straight and homo and transphobic. In fact, queers have always managed to live and even thrive in Eastern Europe and Eurasia and will continue to do so. These essays make that clear even as they deepen our understanding of how queer manifests differently in rural versus urban, Soviet or Post-Soviet regimes, and, of course, East vs. West. -- Laurie Essig, Middlebury College By combining a focus on Eastern Europe and Eurasia with an attention to experience, performance, and narrative, this groundbreaking book contributes to our understandings of queer selfhood, community, and belonging. These perspectives broaden our theoretical frameworks and demonstrate the importance of this crucial region that links Europe and Asia. This book is a true achievement that will be valuable across a range of scholarly debates. -- Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine and author of Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human

By combining a focus on Eastern Europe and Eurasia with an attention to experience, performance, and narrative, this groundbreaking book contributes to our understandings of queer selfhood, community, and belonging. These perspectives broaden our theoretical frameworks and demonstrate the importance of this crucial region that links Europe and Asia. This book is a true achievement that will be valuable across a range of scholarly debates.--Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine and author of Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human The ethnographic and historical essays in this collection beautifully combine queer and decolonial theory to unearth and unpack a variety of forms of queerness in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. From bad girl lesbian activists in Kyrgyzstan to consensual sodomy' in Soviet Latvia back to gender transgression in Kazakh folklore then forward to the contemporary queer pairing of religion and LGBTQ persons in Russia, these essays deepen our understanding of queer lives in a part of the world that is too often constructed as uniformly straight and homo and transphobic. In fact, queers have always managed to live and even thrive in Eastern Europe and Eurasia and will continue to do so. These essays make that clear even as they deepen our understanding of how queer manifests differently in rural versus urban, Soviet or Post-Soviet regimes, and, of course, East vs. West.--Laurie Essig, Middlebury College This edited volume adds to the existing literature on LGBT+ issues in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and does so within the particular theoretical framing of decolonization. Previous scholarship has placed much emphasis on global movements and normative identities without examining the ways these are specifically iterated within local contexts. The inclusion of Central Asia and the Caucasus is particularly welcome given the history of those regions vis-a-vis the Russian Empire and Soviet Union more broadly, within the context of colonization. While this book's nine essays are all grounded in particular field sites and historical events, they move beyond mere description to explore the ways that experience, performance, and identity intersect.... [Readers] with the necessary regional and theoretical background will find much to appreciate. Recommended.-- Choice

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Emily Channell-Justice is the director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.

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