Title: | In search of queer spaces in Tehran: Heterotopias, power geometries and bodily orientations in queer Iranian men’s lives |
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Date: | 2017-09-21 |
Language: | English |
Scope: | 1-18 |
University/Institute: | Háskóli Íslands University of Iceland |
School: | Menntavísindasvið (HÍ) School of Education (UI) |
Series: | Sexualities; |
ISSN: | 1363-4607 1461-7382 (eISSN) |
DOI: | 10.1177/1363460717713383 |
Subject: | Criminalization of homosexuality; Geometries of power; Heterotopias; Queer Iranian men; Queer spaces; Hommar; Staðalímyndir; Samkynhneigð |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/962 |
Citation:Ingvar Kjaran, J., & Martino, W. (2017). In search of queer spaces in Tehran: Heterotopias, power geometries and bodily orientations in queer Iranian men’s lives. Sexualities. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460717713383
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Abstract:This article is based on an ethnographic study that provides insights into queer Iranian
men’s lives in Iran, and specifically in Tehran. It was conceived in response to concerns
about accounts provided by gay internationalist framings of the queer Iranian subject as
reducible to a meta-narrative of homophobic persecution at the hands of an Islamic
repressive state. By employing Foucauldian analytic frameworks that attend to questions
of heterotopic spatiality in conjunction with Massey’s notion of power geometries and
Ahmed’s queer phenomenological perspective, we illuminate the complexity of queer
Iranian men’s spatio-temporal modes of sociality and practices of doing sex. We draw
primarily on interviews with eight gay- identifying men as vital sources of data that speak
to the terms of the livability of a queer life under repressive conditions of Islamic
jurisprudential governance in Iran.
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Rights:© The Author(s)
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