Queer Festivals: Challenging Collective Identities in a Transnational Europe

Konstantinos Eleftheriadis

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2018

Queer Festivals

Challenging Collective Identities in a Transnational Europe

Konstantinos Eleftheriadis

Volume 14 in the series Protest and Social Movements

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048532780

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About this book

This book analyses the role of activist practices in the building of collective identities for social movement studies as well as the role of festivals as significant repertoires of collective action and sites of identitarian explorations in contemporary Europe.

Author / Editor information

Eleftheriadis Konstantinos :

Konstantinos Eleftheriadis is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre d'études des mouvements sociaux (CEMS-IMM) at the EHESS-Paris. He teaches sociology at SciencesPo-Paris and at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Reviews

"Among the many merits of this rich study is also its great readability, including to nonspecialists of social movement sociology, queer theory, or gender and sexuality studies. [...] Eleftheriadis’s Queer Festivals provides an innovative perspective on the realities of the oft-evoked yet insufficiently known queer movement, which is too frequently conflated with queer theory—while "queer" increasingly tends to be loosely applied to characterize any LGBT movements and festivals. One of the book’s theoretical ambitions is indeed to clarify the link between queer festivals and queer theory. This goal is successfully reached, as is that of accounting for the interplay between discourses and practices in the formation of a festival’s publics and the performance of its identity work."
- Guillaume Marche, Journal of Festive Studies 3 (2021)

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	9
1. Introduction Open Access Download PDF	11
2. The Origins of Queer Festivals in Europe Open Access Download PDF	39
3. Organizing the Queer Space Open Access Download PDF	53
4. What Is ‘Queer’ about Queer Festivals? Open Access Download PDF	77
5. ‘Not Yet Queer Enough’ Open Access Download PDF	99
6. Queering Transnationalism Open Access Download PDF	143
7. Anti-identity, Politics and the State Open Access Download PDF	167
Appendix 1: Methodology of the study Open Access Download PDF	181
Appendix 2: Documentation of Queer Festivals Open Access Download PDF	191
References Open Access Download PDF	199
Interviews Open Access Download PDF	211
Index Open Access Download PDF	213

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 208
Illustrations
- Other: 3 color plates, 2 halftones, 9 line art
Keywords: Queer; transnational; ethnography; counterpublic

eBook

Published: March 9, 2018
ISBN: 9789048532780