A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction: Queer Utopias, Queer Futurity, and Potentiality in Quotidian Practice

   1. Introduction: Queer Utopias, Queer Futurity, and Potentiality in Quotidian Practice

      • Angela Jones

      Pages 1-17

3. Theater and Performance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. The Play Within the Film: Tel Aviv, History, and the Queer Utopia

      • David Gorshein

      Pages 21-46

   3. It’s about Time: Queer Utopias and Theater Performance

      • Stephen Farrier

      Pages 47-68

4. Eroticized Spaces

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. Queer Utopias in Painful Spaces: BDSM Participants’ Interrelational Resistance to Heteronormativity and Gender Regulation

      • Brandy L. Simula

      Pages 71-100

   3. The Queer Potentiality of Barebacking: Charging, Whoring, and Breeding as Utopian Practices

      • Brandon Andrew Robinson

      Pages 101-128

5. Queer Counterpublics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. Performing Utopia: Queer Counterpublics and Southerners on New Ground

      • Sarah M. Steele

      Pages 131-147

   3. Landscaping Classrooms toward Queer Utopias

      • Kat Rands, Jess McDonald, Lauren Clapp

      Pages 149-172

6. Queer Political Activism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. The Utopia of Europe’s LGBTQ Visibility Campaigns in the Politics of Everyday Life: The Utopic of Social Hope in the Images of Queer Spaces

      • Pawel Leszkowicz, Tomasz Kitlinski

      Pages 175-203

   3. Utopian Pragmatics: Bash Back! and the Temporality of Radical Queer Action

      • Hilary Malatino

      Pages 205-227

7. Family

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229

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   2. Radical Experiments Involving Innocent Children: Locating Parenthood in Queer Utopia

      • Jane Ward

      Pages 231-244

   3. Utopian Kinship?: The Possibilities of Queer Parenting

      • Laura V. Heston

      Pages 245-267

8. Back Matter

   Pages 269-288

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This anthology is a symposium on queer space and queer utopias. Through the presentation of empirical work by contemporary queer theorists this book aims to create a critical dialogue about the emergence of queer spaces and the ways in which they aim to further queer futurity.

• children
• Familie
• gender
• politics
• utopia

'This volume brings a level of sophistication to both the social sciences and humanities-based queer theory as a way to ignite a new queer cultural studies. Using interdisciplinary methods, it makes the reader seize a queer futurity we already have access to if only at momentarily times and spaces refusing to accept that belonging, and making community, aren't happening today. This book moves beyond simple, neoliberal markers of 'equality,' paying attention to other axes of power besides sexuality - truly embodying the minoritarian subject positions of queer utopias. Through sites such as NGOs and classrooms, practices such as barebacking and BDSM, and the use of parenting and performance, these chapters 'move' us all toward a productive sense of queer politics.' - Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Editor, The Sexuality of Migration, Associate Sociology Professor, American University, USA

"This fascinating volume assembles qualitative research that, by tracing the extraordinary potential inherent in ordinary lives and everyday practices of freedom, gives the lie to anti-futurity polemics in queer theory. A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias pushes a vital conversation to the next level." Tim Dean, Professor of English, The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

• Farmingdale State College, State University of New York, USA

  Angela Jones

Stephen Farrier, University of London, UK Anastasia Kayiatos, University of California, Berkeley, USA Brandy L. Simula, Emory University, USA Maura Kelly, Portland State University, USA Dylan Waller, Portland State University, USA Pawel Leszkowicz, University of Sussex, UK Tomasz Kitlinski, Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland Hilary Malatino, Indiana University, USA James Joseph Dean, Sonoma College, USA Steven Seidman, State University of New York, USA Laura Heston, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA

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