1st Edition
Queer Festivals Challenging Collective Identities in a Transnational Europe
By Konstantinos Eleftheriadis
Copyright 2018
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
To what extent is queer anti-identitarian? And how is it experienced by activists at the European level? At queer festivals, activists, artists and participants come together to build new forms of sociability and practice their ideals through anti-binary and inclusive idioms of gender and sexuality. These ideals are moreover channelled through a series of organisational and cultural practices that... Read more
1. Introduction: Queer Festivals and the Anti-Identity Paradox: Transnational collective identities beyond the state 2. The origins of queer festivals in Europe 3. Organizing the queer space: Squats, Horizontality and Do-It-Yourself 4. What is 'queer' about queer festivals?: Negotiating Identity and Autonomy 5. 'Not yet queer enough': Constructing Identity through culture 6. Queering Transnationalism 7. Anti-identity, Politics and the State: Queer Challenges and Future Directions, Appendix, References, Index
Biography
Konstantinos Eleftheriadis is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre d'études des mouvements sociaux (CEMS-IMM) at the EHESS-Paris. He teaches sociology at SciencesPo-Paris and at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle.
