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The politics of in/visibility: carving out queer space in Ul'yanovsk
<p>In spite of a growing interest within sexualities studies in the concept of queer space (Oswin 2008), existing literature focuses almost exclusively on its most visible and territorialised forms, such as the gay scene, thus privileging Western metropolitan areas as hubs of queer consumer culture (Binnie 2004). While the literature has emphasised the political significance of queer space as a site of resistance to hegemonic gender and sexual norms, it has again predominantly focused on overt claims to public space embodied in Pride events, neglecting other less open forms of resistance.</p><p>
This article contributes new insights to current debates about the construction and meaning of queer space by considering how city space is appropriated by an informal queer network in Ul’ianovsk. The group routinely occupied very public locations meeting and socialising on the street or in mainstream cafés in central Ul’ianovsk, although claims to these spaces as queer were mostly contingent, precarious or invisible to outsiders. The article considers how provincial location affects tactics used to carve out communal space, foregrounding the importance of local context and collective agency in shaping specific forms of resistance, and questioning ethnocentric assumptions about the empowering potential of visibility.</p>
Thermoanalytical studies of carbamazepine: hydration/dehydration, thermal decomposition, and solid phase transitions
Выбор вариантных форм в русском языке: плюсы и минусы различных моделей статистического анализа
Investigation of the persistence of photostimulated luminescence of alkali halide phosphors
Transitional Reorientation and Rotation of Molecules during Vector Holographic Recording in Azobenzene-Containing Polymeric Films
Laser photolysis studies of the light-induced formation of spiropyran-merocyanine complexes in solution
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