This book discusses the ongoing challenges of queer visibilities, activism and knowledge production and demonstrate that there are lessons to be learned from the experiences of queer people in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
This book discusses the ongoing challenges of queer visibilities, activism and knowledge production and demonstrate that there are lessons to be learned from the experiences of queer people in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Jasmin Dall'Agnola is a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zurich's Department of Communication and Media Research, Zurich, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the relationship between gender, technology, and surveillance in authoritarian societies. She is the Associate Editor for Research Notes at Central Asian Survey. Cai Wilkinson is Associate Professor in International Relations at Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. Her research explores the interconnections of genders and sexualities with security and societal identities, including the politics of LGBT human rights and "traditional values" in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and Eurasia more widely.
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Foreword Introduction: LGBTQ+ visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia 1. 'Why wave the flag?': (in)visible queer activism in authoritarian Kazakhstan and Russia 2. Transgender activism in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan 3. Digital misrecognitions: the violence of visibility in postsocialist Kyrgyzstan 4. LGBTQ+ activism in Azerbaijan: shifting queer (in)visibility regime through power-knowledge technologies 5. Methods of studying LGBT experiences in the situation of invisibility: from African countries to Uzbekistan 6. Persuasion or polarization? LGBTQ+ attitudes among young social media users in Kazakhstan 7. Smartphones and public support for LGBTQ+ in Central Asia 8. Fieldwork within queer communities in Central Asia: a research note 9. Politicking of Islam and LGBTQ+ discourse in Uzbekistan 10. 'As long as you're not an asshole': insider-outsider dynamics in queer research Epilogue: Queer In/visibility and Epistemic In/justice Afterword: Reconsidering the Queer Political, or Against the Identitarian Liberal Turn
Foreword Introduction: LGBTQ+ visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia 1. 'Why wave the flag?': (in)visible queer activism in authoritarian Kazakhstan and Russia 2. Transgender activism in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan 3. Digital misrecognitions: the violence of visibility in postsocialist Kyrgyzstan 4. LGBTQ+ activism in Azerbaijan: shifting queer (in)visibility regime through power-knowledge technologies 5. Methods of studying LGBT experiences in the situation of invisibility: from African countries to Uzbekistan 6. Persuasion or polarization? LGBTQ+ attitudes among young social media users in Kazakhstan 7. Smartphones and public support for LGBTQ+ in Central Asia 8. Fieldwork within queer communities in Central Asia: a research note 9. Politicking of Islam and LGBTQ+ discourse in Uzbekistan 10. 'As long as you're not an asshole': insider-outsider dynamics in queer research Epilogue: Queer In/visibility and Epistemic In/justice Afterword: Reconsidering the Queer Political, or Against the Identitarian Liberal Turn
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