‘The more South you go, the more frankly you can speak’: Metronormativity, critical regionality and the LGBT movement in Salento, South-Eastern Italy

Ammaturo, Francesca Romana

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“…For example, in Poland as a conservative country ruled by right-wing populists since 2015, one can distinguish more and less nationalist, fundamentalist and homophobic regions. A region can also be a useful space for expressing "regional queer solidarities that cut across and challenge the framing of LGBTQ politics in narrow nationalistic terms" (Binnie 2016), as well as the place of the globalisation of LGBT identity policy (Ammaturo 2019).…”

Section: Geographical Links Of Economic Exploitation and Cultural-sexual Oppression: Neoliberal Implications For Lgbt Ghettoisationmentioning

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The Dialectic of Neoliberal Exploitation and Cultural‐Sexual Exclusion: From Special Economic Zones to LGBT‐Free Zones in Poland

2021

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This article analyses the process of spatial segregation in Poland: the transition from economic deprivation and the neoliberal logic initiated in the 1990s, which can be symbolised by special economic zones, to the atmosphere of cultural exclusion manifested by LGBT-free zones created at the level of municipalities, cities and regions in Poland in 2019 and 2020. The authors defend the thesis that events in Poland have confirmed that not only the state can be authoritarian, but that local and regional authorities can also reproduce an authoritarian and excluder vision of social order. The article also shows similarities between the arguments of the modern populist right, which demanded the establishment of LGBT-free zones, and anti-Semitic slogans of the pre-war right, which demanded the creation of ghettos for Jews. In conclusion, the authors call for avoiding the mistake of separating economic exclusion from cultural discrimination and treating these challenges separately. Resumen: Este art ıculo analiza el proceso de segregaci on espacial en Polonia: la transici on desde la privaci on econ omica y la l ogica neoliberal iniciada en la d ecada de 1990, que puede ser simbolizada en las zonas con una econom ıa especial, hasta el ambiente de exclusi on cultural manifestado a trav es de las zonas libres de LGBT creadas a nivel de municipios, ciudades y regiones en Polonia en 2019 y 2020. Los autores defienden la tesis de que los acontecimientos en Polonia han confirmado que no solo el estado puede ser autoritario, sino que las autoridades locales y regionales tambi en pueden reproducir una visi on autoritaria y excluyente del orden social. El art ıculo tambi en muestra similitudes entre los argumentos de la derecha populista moderna, que exig ıa el establecimiento de zonas libres de LGBT, y los esl oganes antisemitas de la derecha en per ıodo de preguerra , que exig ıa la creaci on de guetos para los jud ıos. En conclusi on, los autores piden que se evite el error de separar la exclusi on econ omica de la discriminaci on cultural y tratar estos retos por separado.

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Section: Geographical Links Of Economic Exploitation and Cultural-sexual Oppression: Neoliberal Implications For Lgbt Ghettoisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Dialectic of Neoliberal Exploitation and Cultural‐Sexual Exclusion: From Special Economic Zones to LGBT‐Free Zones in Poland

2021

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“…I ett sexualpolitiskt landskap präglat av förväntningar om synlighet, "being out and proud", hämtade från storstaden uttryckte ungdomarna sin queerhet genom normerna i de lokala gemenskaperna -genom att vara familj (Gray 2009: 38). Även i Francesca Romana Ammaturos studie av hbtq-aktivism i sydöstra Italien använde aktivisterna familjaritet som strategi för att skapa acceptans för hbtq-rättigheter (Ammaturo 2019). I forskningen uppmärksammas den sexualpolitiska rörelsens synlighetspolitik, uttryckt i Pridefestivaler och parader, som en urban strategi som omförhandlas och omarbetas på platser bortom storstäderna och i studierna betonas vikten av att beakta synlighetspolitikens underliggande ideologier och konsekvenser (Thomsen 2014) och utforska relationen mellan *bygd queerhet och hbtq-aktivismens dynamiker (Ammaturo 2019).…”

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”Vi gör det på vårat sätt”. Pride på *bygd, av-urbanisering och de-centrering av hbtq-frågor

Lööv

2020

TGV

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Research on Pride festivals highlight the ambivalent meanings of Pride today. While debates about Pride have illuminated a variety of important issues they tend to be located in urban contexts and the effects of urban normativity is absent in these debates. This article explores LGBTQ activism in a rural setting in Sweden with a point of departure in ethnographic material from a fieldwork conducted at a Pride festival organized in 2015. In the material Pride was situated at the crossroads of metropolitan conceptualizations of Pride and specific conditions relating to rural spaces. This intersection presented Pride organizers with different challenges that they reflected and acted upon when organizing a festival. Organizers described local expectations of their festival resembling Stockholm Pride, and emphasized the difficulty of designing their festival with Stockholm Pride as both model and antitype, pointing out the different conditions facing urban and rural Pride festivals. Wanting to counter the urban image and take local conditions and what was needed in the region as a point of departure they expressed how they wanted to do the festival their “own way.” This article takes this notion of “doing it our own way” as a starting point. Doing it their own way meant de-urbanizing Pride by localizing and familiarizing the festival. The rural Pride festival represented a “paradoxical space” (Rose 1993) where LGBTQ activism and Pride were de/ constructed and re-worked. When adapting Pride to the everyday realities of rural life the festival became a space focusing on different subjects relevant to the region and a space in which metropolitan conceptualizations of LGBTQ struggles and Pride were challenged. By de-urbanizing Pride the festival became less normatively urban, but also less LGBTQ centered.

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“…Many sociologists who “study down” have inadvertently assumed that those who have a nonnormative or deviant identity in rural settings must continuously try to “pass” (see Goffman, 1963) as straight or cisgender or flee to more densely populated areas (see Weston, 1995). As a result, we know far more about subgroups in urban than nonurban or rural settings (see Ammaturo, 2019; Drushel, 2019; Ghaziani, 2011; Herring, 2010). 5 Moreover, as those who study subcultures have pointed out (Muggleton, 2000), in the context of a global economy, subcultures and subgroups need not necessarily be bound to geographic contexts (Buckland, 2002; Hodkinson, 2002).…”

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Queer expectations: An empirical critique of rural LGBT+ narratives

Conner

Okamura

2021

Sexualities

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Much of the body of literature on LGBT+ populations within the United States place urban areas and so-called gayborhoods as goals and eventualities, paralleling early US studies on immigration. Using a multistage, mixed-methods approach, consisting of secondary analysis of the Pew 2013 Study of LGBT Persons ( N = 1197) and in-depth interviews (35 gay men, 2 trans-identifying individuals, 1 heterosexual woman, and 2 lesbians), we found that rural LGBT+ residents engaged in both short-term and long-term travel to mitigate feelings of being spatially segregated from the loci of gay social life—what Ghaziani (2019a) refers to as cultural archipelagos. However, rural residents also used their geographical location to resist dominant narratives about LGBT+ life. Some of our respondents felt that living in rural areas better situated them to be activists and advocates for LGBT+ rights, while others simply did not feel they could be comfortable within more urban contexts. These findings suggest that rural LGBT+ residents may have delinked their sexual selves with their cultural and political selves, thus illustrating the plurality of rural queer voices that exists. As we also argue, while residence category should be considered as influencing one’s experience, care must be used to avoid overly deterministic accounts. Finally, this article extends earlier work by Brekhus (2003), Mattson (2015), and Ghaziani (2019a) by presenting the meaningfulness of travel to and from queer cultural strongholds.

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‘The more South you go, the more frankly you can speak’: Metronormativity, critical regionality and the LGBT movement in Salento, South-Eastern Italy

Cited by 7 publications

References 30 publications

The Dialectic of Neoliberal Exploitation and Cultural‐Sexual Exclusion: From Special Economic Zones to LGBT‐Free Zones in Poland

The Dialectic of Neoliberal Exploitation and Cultural‐Sexual Exclusion: From Special Economic Zones to LGBT‐Free Zones in Poland

”Vi gör det på vårat sätt”. Pride på *bygd, av-urbanisering och de-centrering av hbtq-frågor

Queer expectations: An empirical critique of rural LGBT+ narratives

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