Decolonizing queer experience : LGBT+ narratives from Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Gays
Lexington Books
2020
EISBN 9781793630315
Introduction: Of constatives, performatives, and disidentifications: Decolonizing queer critique in post-socialist times (5606).
Section 1. The Categories Themselves.
Body politics, trans imaginary, and decoloniality (6859).
Queering categories: Recognition, misrecognition, and identity politics in Armenia (7753).
Escaping the dichotomies of 'Good' and 'Bad': Chronotopes of queerness in Kyrgyzstan (6815).
Section 2. Queer in Public.
LGBT+ rights, European values, and radical critique: Leftist challenges to LGBT+ mainstreaming in Ukraine (7922).
Queering the Soviet Pribaltika: Criminal cases of consensual sodomy in Soviet Latvia (1960s-1980s) (7796).
Queer people and the criminal justice system in Ukraine: Negotiating relationships, historical trauma and contemporary Western discourses (7655).
Section 3. Decolonizing Queer Performance.
Stifled monstrosities: Gender transgressive motifs in Kazakh folklore (7553).
"Pugacheva for the People": Two portraits of non-urban post Soviet queer performers (7751).
Religious experiences in life stories of homosexuals and bisexuals in Russia (6577).
Conclusion.
"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"--
Section 1. The Categories Themselves.
Body politics, trans imaginary, and decoloniality (6859).
Queering categories: Recognition, misrecognition, and identity politics in Armenia (7753).
Escaping the dichotomies of 'Good' and 'Bad': Chronotopes of queerness in Kyrgyzstan (6815).
Section 2. Queer in Public.
LGBT+ rights, European values, and radical critique: Leftist challenges to LGBT+ mainstreaming in Ukraine (7922).
Queering the Soviet Pribaltika: Criminal cases of consensual sodomy in Soviet Latvia (1960s-1980s) (7796).
Queer people and the criminal justice system in Ukraine: Negotiating relationships, historical trauma and contemporary Western discourses (7655).
Section 3. Decolonizing Queer Performance.
Stifled monstrosities: Gender transgressive motifs in Kazakh folklore (7553).
"Pugacheva for the People": Two portraits of non-urban post Soviet queer performers (7751).
Religious experiences in life stories of homosexuals and bisexuals in Russia (6577).
Conclusion.
"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"--
