Queer Beograd Collective: Beyond single-issue activism in Serbia and the post-Yugoslav Space

Autor(en)

Bojan Bilic, I. Dioli

Abstrakt

This chapter takes a look at the appearance and operation of the Belgrade-based activist group Queer Beograd Collective, which represented a transient convergence of emancipatory politics that rooted resistance to capitalism, racism, nationalism, and homophobia in local practices and experiences. The authors draw upon a variety of empirical data to examine how the idea of queerness was employed to surpass the constraints of strictly identitarian activism and move beyond the “always already” present NGO form of activist operation. This activist group struggled to appropriate the political potential of “queerness” and envisage a new, more inclusive space that would start reconstructing deeply wounded links throughout the post-Yugoslav space.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Bildungswissenschaft, Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Seiten

105-125

Publikationsdatum

2016

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504014 Gender Studies

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/queer-beograd-collective-beyond-singleissue-activism-in-serbia-and-the-postyugoslav-space(97e62a8e-fa84-4eb0-826a-0a30fb585769).html