Queering Close Relationships in Contemporary Estonia

Abstract

is focused on narratives and practices of close relationships of queers in Estonia. The chosen title – “And I don’t know who we really are to each other” – points the reader to the centrality of relationality, self-determination, subjectivity, locally grounded vocabulary, and the knowing-by-doing, that will remain important threads in the narratives and practices analysed throughout the thesis. The main objective of Uibo’s work is to explore the ways in which queers understand and practice close relationships in the political, economic and cultural circumstances of contemporary Estonia. The book is divided into seven chapters. Each chapter begins with an interlude – a short ethnographical reflection, described by the author as “a way of grounding the research even further in ethnographic data”