A Clash Of Subcultures? Questioning Queer–Muslim Antagonisms in the Neoliberal City

Kosnick, Kira

doi:10.1111/1468-2427.12261

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“…A similar argument, drawn from the different circumstances of Berlin, is made in the second article by Kosnick (, this issue), who studies the relations between Muslims and queer/gay communities. Here too, the racialized framing of the Muslim anti‐ gay struggle as reactionary and fundamentalist not only creates sharp urban conflicts over public space, but also helps maintain the marginalization of Berlin's Muslims, and their denial of equal urban citizenship.…”

Section: The Debatementioning

confidence: 58%

Epilogue—from ‘Gray Space' to Equal ‘Metrozenship'? Reflections On Urban Citizenship

Yiftachel

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This epilogue provides an overview and critique of the articles in this symposium, and an invitation to rethink, conceptually and empirically, our urban future. Using examples from cities in Israel/Palestine, it links the articles to the main currents in the literature on urban citizenship and ‘right to the city'. It draws attention to several voids in current debates, particularly around the rapid growth of urban informality and the changing nature of globalizing urban regimes. The epilogue introduces the notions of ‘gray spacing' to account for recent transformations in these regimes and the rise of ‘defensive urban citizenship' under conditions of neoliberal economy and persisting nationalism. It argues for the rethinking of the struggle for urban democracy in terms of ‘metrozenship' as a foundation for renewed critical research and political transformation.

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Section: The Debatementioning

confidence: 58%

Epilogue—from ‘Gray Space' to Equal ‘Metrozenship'? Reflections On Urban Citizenship

Yiftachel

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Seen as rich (double income, no children), gay men are in a double sense "guilty" of gentrifying and thus pushing "normal people" out of central neighborhoods: they can afford the best housing, and their (vivid, bohemian) culture is a magnet to the next affluent, also foreign (Western European, US American, Canadian) generation of gentrifiers. Usually, an immigrant Muslim community is antagonistic toward these "gentrifiers," in particular in Berlin where they occupy the same neighborhoods (Kosnick 2015). In this constellation, Polish immigrants' positioning is ambivalent, as critical of queer (visible) presence in the city, but also sharing the white majority's anti-Muslim sentiments.…”

Section: Concluding Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Migrant Masculinities through a Spatially Intersectional Lens

Wojnicka

Nowicka

2021

Men and Masculinities

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This article analyzes migrant narratives on masculinity through an intersectional perspective that is sensitive to spatial aspects. Drawing on research with migrants in Berlin and Munich in Germany, we unpack how (self-identified) Polish men negotiate their gender identity vis-à-vis other people in these cities whom they perceive as ethnic, religious, gender, and sexual others. We address how their social and ethnic backgrounds shape their narratives on foreign masculinities and femininities at the intersections of ethnicity and gender. In particular, we draw attention to how these negotiations are entangled with local discourses over the presence and visibility of various immigrant groups and cosmopolitan queer communities in the cities. The intersectional approach helps us to formulate how migrant masculine identities change in migration.

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“…This comment gestures towards the increased centrality of ‘tolerance’ as a criterion for belonging in neighbourhoods that are marketed partly through the claim to being ‘queer-friendly’; intolerance would merit disciplinary action, which could ultimately lead to the outcast being ‘cast out’. Whilst this participant suggests racism and homophobia would be equally condemned as out of place, El-Tayeb finds that in European cities that define themselves ‘around shared values of humanism, equality and tolerance, there is an increasingly intolerant and repressive attitude towards migrants and racialized minorities – justified by their supposed threat to exactly these values’ (2012: 80; see also Bacchetta et al., 2015; Haritaworn, 2015; Kosnick, 2015). The pernicious circulation of ‘homophile islamophobia’ that El-Tayeb identifies draws on longstanding colonial logics that cite (supposed) sexual norms to distinguish the ‘premodern savage’ from the ‘modern colonizer’ and thus naturalise racial hierarchies (Butler, 2008; Hoad, 2000).…”

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LGBTQ situated memory, place-making and the sexual politics of gentrification

Spruce

2020

Environ Plan D

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This article draws on material from an ethnographic study in the gentrifying/gentrified London neighbourhood of Brixton to analyse the relationship between practices of LGBTQ territorialisation and the politics of neighbourhood change. It proceeds with two interrelated aims: to think critically about the ways in which LGBTQ claims to place-based belonging interact with racialised and classed ideologies of displacement and disciplining, and to explore memory’s significance in framing the relationship between LGBTQ people and place. ‘LGBTQ situated memory’ is thus introduced here as a concept that draws attention to the complex, contradictory and dynamic role that site-specific evocations of the past play in contemporary LGBTQ urban politics. By exploring three memory tropes that emerge in Brixton, I show that LGBTQ situated memory can be used to claim spatialised belonging, negotiate culpability for gentrification and disturb progress narratives. Ultimately this article both calls for, and works towards, an approach to sexual geography that foregrounds multiplicity: a multiplicity of LGBTQ situated histories and – as is reflected in the memories explored – a multiplicity of relationships between LGBTQ people and neighbourhood development.

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A Clash Of Subcultures? Questioning Queer–Muslim Antagonisms in the Neoliberal City

Cited by 17 publications

References 68 publications

Epilogue—from ‘Gray Space' to Equal ‘Metrozenship'? Reflections On Urban Citizenship

Epilogue—from ‘Gray Space' to Equal ‘Metrozenship'? Reflections On Urban Citizenship

Understanding Migrant Masculinities through a Spatially Intersectional Lens

LGBTQ situated memory, place-making and the sexual politics of gentrification

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