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LGBTQ+ Visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia book cover

1st Edition

LGBTQ+ Visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia

Edited By Jasmin Dall’Agnola, Cai Wilkinson Copyright 2025
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge
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This book discusses the ongoing challenges of queer visibilities, activism, and knowledge production and demonstrates that there are lessons to be learned from the experiences of queer people in the Caucasus and Central Asia. The idea for this book emerged from a desire to showcase queer scholarship in and on the region, following a panel discussion about the visibility of queer communities in the... Read more

Foreword

Dan Healey

 

Introduction: LGBTQ+ visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia

Cai Wilkinson and Jasmin Dall’Agnola

 

1. ‘Why wave the flag?’: (in)visible queer activism in authoritarian Kazakhstan and Russia

Mariya Levitanus and Polina Kislitsyna

 

2. Transgender activism in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

Yana Kirey-Sitnikova

 

3. Digital misrecognitions: the violence of visibility in postsocialist Kyrgyzstan

Alexa Kurmanov and Sanjar Kurmanov

 

4. LGBTQ+ activism in Azerbaijan: shifting queer (in)visibility regime through power–knowledge technologies

Khayyam Namazov

 

5. Methods of studying LGBT experiences in the situation of invisibility: from African countries to Uzbekistan

Alexander Sasha Kondakov

 

6. Persuasion or polarization? LGBTQ+ attitudes among young social media users in Kazakhstan

Marika Olijar and Junda Li

 

7. Smartphones and public support for LGBTQ+ in Central Asia

Jasmin Dall’Agnola

 

8. Fieldwork within queer communities in Central Asia: a research note

Ainagul Aitbayeva

 

9. Politicking of Islam and LGBTQ+ discourse in Uzbekistan

Gena Cheburashka

 

10. ‘As long as you’re not an asshole’: insider-outsider dynamics in queer research

Elliot Napier

 

Epilogue: Queer In/visibility and Epistemic In/justice

Mohira Suyarkulova

 

Afterword: Reconsidering the Queer Political, or Against the Identitarian Liberal Turn

Tamar Shirinian

 

 

Biography

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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