{"title":"Fascinerande vitnesbyrd frå ein av dei fyrste norske urningane","authors":"Per Esben Svelstad","doi":"10.34041/ln.v28.873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34041/ln.v28.873","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33274,"journal":{"name":"Lambda Nordica","volume":"2013 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74230337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores Pride politics in post-Maidan Ukraine from queer feminist and decolonial perspectives. It aims to understand how the location of Ukraine on the fringes of two imperial formations, namely the global West and Russian imperialism, shapes Pride and its consequences for LGBT communities and broader society. The authors introduce the concept of buffer periphery as an analytic lens that focuses critically on both imperial formations simultaneously, while tracing naturalized colonial discourses. The first part of the article analyzes the material-symbolic framing of Kyiv Pride marches in the context of the NGO-ization of LGBT activism, police reform, the war in Donbas, and the corresponding militarization of Ukrainian society and the region at large. The analysis is focused on how West-centered geopolitics of liberation and the Euro-oriented aspirations of the Ukrainian government work together to animate Pride politics and instrumentalize them. The second part closely examines the case of the Queer Anarcho-Feminist Block at the 2017 Kyiv Pride, considering it an attempt decolonial resistance to neoliberalization and militarization of Pride and LGBT politics in Ukraine. The article suggests that the resulting outcome of Kyiv Pride marches with respect to broader LGBT communities in Ukraine is rather ambiguous. While acknowledging its influence on public opinion and media discourse as well as its personal significance for many community members, the authors offer a critical perspective on Kyiv Pride as a vehicle and an effect of the colonial geopolitics of liberation. It remains unclear to what extent Kyiv Pride challenged homophobia and transphobia, let alone capitalist and racist regimes of power, or if it perhaps just converted the idea of LGBT liberation into a homocapitalist project of producing loyal sexual citizens.
{"title":"Pride Contested","authors":"O. Plakhotnik, Maria Mayerchyk","doi":"10.34041/ln.v.874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34041/ln.v.874","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores Pride politics in post-Maidan Ukraine from queer feminist and decolonial perspectives. It aims to understand how the location of Ukraine on the fringes of two imperial formations, namely the global West and Russian imperialism, shapes Pride and its consequences for LGBT communities and broader society. The authors introduce the concept of buffer periphery as an analytic lens that focuses critically on both imperial formations simultaneously, while tracing naturalized colonial discourses. The first part of the article analyzes the material-symbolic framing of Kyiv Pride marches in the context of the NGO-ization of LGBT activism, police reform, the war in Donbas, and the corresponding militarization of Ukrainian society and the region at large. The analysis is focused on how West-centered geopolitics of liberation and the Euro-oriented aspirations of the Ukrainian government work together to animate Pride politics and instrumentalize them. The second part closely examines the case of the Queer Anarcho-Feminist Block at the 2017 Kyiv Pride, considering it an attempt decolonial resistance to neoliberalization and militarization of Pride and LGBT politics in Ukraine. The article suggests that the resulting outcome of Kyiv Pride marches with respect to broader LGBT communities in Ukraine is rather ambiguous. While acknowledging its influence on public opinion and media discourse as well as its personal significance for many community members, the authors offer a critical perspective on Kyiv Pride as a vehicle and an effect of the colonial geopolitics of liberation. It remains unclear to what extent Kyiv Pride challenged homophobia and transphobia, let alone capitalist and racist regimes of power, or if it perhaps just converted the idea of LGBT liberation into a homocapitalist project of producing loyal sexual citizens.","PeriodicalId":33274,"journal":{"name":"Lambda Nordica","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75392521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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”
{"title":"Queering Close Relationships in Contemporary Estonia","authors":"A. C. Santos","doi":"10.34041/ln.v28.871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34041/ln.v28.871","url":null,"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”","PeriodicalId":33274,"journal":{"name":"Lambda Nordica","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88596294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mellan åren 1960 och 1970 skrev många personer som företrädelsevis kallade sig transvestiter till de svenska sextidningar Piff och Raff för att be om råd kring frågor om könsidentitet samt för att söka gemenskap. Föreliggande artikel resonerar kring hur detta kom sig. Varför skrev personer med transerfarenheter just hit? Vilka teman är det som lyfts och vilka svar får de av Piff:s och Raff:s redaktioner? Med utgångspunkt i dessa frågor analyseras Raff och Piff som stöttande kontaktytor för personer med transerfarenheter under perioden 1960 till 1970. I en bredare bemärkelse lyfts även frågan om vad dessa berättelser kan säga om villkor för personer med transerfarenheter i Sverige under 1960-talet. Via den teoretiska ingången queer temporalitet visar artikeln att kontaktannonserna samt redaktionernas svar präglas av olika former av förhandlingar och drömmar om queera liv och nya könade framtider. I en tid då det i Sverige i hög grad saknas offentliga mötesplatser för transpersoner fungerar således sextidningar som en queer horisont och passage till ett transmöjliggörande annanstans.
{"title":"”Jag söker gemenskap”","authors":"Signe Bremer","doi":"10.34041/ln.v28.867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34041/ln.v28.867","url":null,"abstract":"Mellan åren 1960 och 1970 skrev många personer som företrädelsevis kallade sig transvestiter till de svenska sextidningar Piff och Raff för att be om råd kring frågor om könsidentitet samt för att söka gemenskap. Föreliggande artikel resonerar kring hur detta kom sig. Varför skrev personer med transerfarenheter just hit? Vilka teman är det som lyfts och vilka svar får de av Piff:s och Raff:s redaktioner? Med utgångspunkt i dessa frågor analyseras Raff och Piff som stöttande kontaktytor för personer med transerfarenheter under perioden 1960 till 1970. I en bredare bemärkelse lyfts även frågan om vad dessa berättelser kan säga om villkor för personer med transerfarenheter i Sverige under 1960-talet. Via den teoretiska ingången queer temporalitet visar artikeln att kontaktannonserna samt redaktionernas svar präglas av olika former av förhandlingar och drömmar om queera liv och nya könade framtider. I en tid då det i Sverige i hög grad saknas offentliga mötesplatser för transpersoner fungerar således sextidningar som en queer horisont och passage till ett transmöjliggörande annanstans.","PeriodicalId":33274,"journal":{"name":"Lambda Nordica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82044173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The last few decades have witnessed the emergence of several knowledge traditions within academic clusters inspired by and engaged in productive dialogue with transnational social movements such as feminist, queer, trans* and Crip studies, critical race theory, indigenous studies, and degrowth scholarship (Choudry & Kappor 2010; Bhattacharyya & Murji 2013; Carruthers 2018; Salisbury & Connelly 2021). Despite significant theoretical and methodological differences, these traditions share a recognition of the fundamental role played by social actors outside academia in the struggle for social justice in academic knowledge production. Recent decades have also witnessed the emergence of ethnonationalist and anti-gender social movements, networks, and political parties attacking these academic traditions and focusing on the university as a fundamental arena for generating and reproducing their ideologies of hate (Perry 2009). These attacks target academic fields and individual scholars sharing a commitment to social justice issues (Floyd 2009) and an understanding of knowledge production inside academia as contributing to visions of social justice beyond academia (Young 2000). Central to these threats against scholars working within social justice paradigms is the argument that their scholarly production is “political” and hence unscientific. In this article, we explore the politics of knowledge claims among key anti-gender and right-wing actors within and related to academic institutions in Sweden. Inspired by the concepts of neoliberal depoliticising and neoliberal governance, we analyse arguments and strategies from 2015 to 2021 designed to undermine gender studies and to create and establish arenas for right-wing ethnonationalist knowledge production within the academia.
{"title":"Why Following the Rules Will Not Stop Them:","authors":"L. Martinsson, Diana Mulinari","doi":"10.34041/ln.v27.832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34041/ln.v27.832","url":null,"abstract":"The last few decades have witnessed the emergence of several knowledge traditions within academic clusters inspired by and engaged in productive dialogue with transnational social movements such as feminist, queer, trans* and Crip studies, critical race theory, indigenous studies, and degrowth scholarship (Choudry & Kappor 2010; Bhattacharyya & Murji 2013; Carruthers 2018; Salisbury & Connelly 2021). Despite significant theoretical and methodological differences, these traditions share a recognition of the fundamental role played by social actors outside academia in the struggle for social justice in academic knowledge production. Recent decades have also witnessed the emergence of ethnonationalist and anti-gender social movements, networks, and political parties attacking these academic traditions and focusing on the university as a fundamental arena for generating and reproducing their ideologies of hate (Perry 2009). These attacks target academic fields and individual scholars sharing a commitment to social justice issues (Floyd 2009) and an understanding of knowledge production inside academia as contributing to visions of social justice beyond academia (Young 2000). Central to these threats against scholars working within social justice paradigms is the argument that their scholarly production is “political” and hence unscientific. In this article, we explore the politics of knowledge claims among key anti-gender and right-wing actors within and related to academic institutions in Sweden. Inspired by the concepts of neoliberal depoliticising and neoliberal governance, we analyse arguments and strategies from 2015 to 2021 designed to undermine gender studies and to create and establish arenas for right-wing ethnonationalist knowledge production within the academia.","PeriodicalId":33274,"journal":{"name":"Lambda Nordica","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91055594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Sauvons les enfants de la loi Taubira”:","authors":"Míša Stekl","doi":"10.34041/ln.v27.839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34041/ln.v27.839","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>Essay</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":33274,"journal":{"name":"Lambda Nordica","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81217617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper we engage in a critical exploration of the strategic use of weaponised and glorified media representations of children and (re)production in anti-gender and pro-family movements. We argue that this strategy aims to portray the heteronormative family as the “natural” aim, the normal (normative) condition of living, and the only acceptable social engagement in society. We analyse these semantic representations through three theoretical lenses: anti-social queer theory, children’s rights theory, and intersectional feminism. These inform and share the critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 2013) of media documentation of two recent events in Italy: the pro-family conference “The Wind of Change: Europe and the Global Pro-Family Movement”, which took place in Verona in March 2019; and the reactionary far-right and ultra-Catholic campaigns in response to the updated guidelines for the application of the Abortion Law 194, in regard to the administration of the abortion pill (RU486) in August 2020. We review three recurrent concepts in the rhetoric of the anti-gender and pro-family movements discussed in the analysed media articles: the Child; reproductive futurism; and the glorification of hetero-normative modes of socialisation, discussed here as “positive sociality”. In exploring the ideological discourses presented in relation to these concepts, we adopt Bersani’s (1995) critique of heteronormative practices as a starting point. Findings highlight the modality in which anti-gender and pro-family movements utilise these three ideological concepts as weapons to define non-normative sociality as a threat to the traditional (and reproductive) family as well as the (white) nation.
{"title":"“Leave the Kids Alone”:","authors":"Francesca Zanatta, Elisa Virgili","doi":"10.34041/ln.v27.833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34041/ln.v27.833","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we engage in a critical exploration of the strategic use of weaponised and glorified media representations of children and (re)production in anti-gender and pro-family movements. We argue that this strategy aims to portray the heteronormative family as the “natural” aim, the normal (normative) condition of living, and the only acceptable social engagement in society. We analyse these semantic representations through three theoretical lenses: anti-social queer theory, children’s rights theory, and intersectional feminism. These inform and share the critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 2013) of media documentation of two recent events in Italy: the pro-family conference “The Wind of Change: Europe and the Global Pro-Family Movement”, which took place in Verona in March 2019; and the reactionary far-right and ultra-Catholic campaigns in response to the updated guidelines for the application of the Abortion Law 194, in regard to the administration of the abortion pill (RU486) in August 2020. We review three recurrent concepts in the rhetoric of the anti-gender and pro-family movements discussed in the analysed media articles: the Child; reproductive futurism; and the glorification of hetero-normative modes of socialisation, discussed here as “positive sociality”. In exploring the ideological discourses presented in relation to these concepts, we adopt Bersani’s (1995) critique of heteronormative practices as a starting point. Findings highlight the modality in which anti-gender and pro-family movements utilise these three ideological concepts as weapons to define non-normative sociality as a threat to the traditional (and reproductive) family as well as the (white) nation.","PeriodicalId":33274,"journal":{"name":"Lambda Nordica","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72535195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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