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Zusatztext A fascinating and transgressive book on what makes the lives of LGBTQ people liveable from a feminist queer approach. A great example of how to explore the understandings of liveabilities through transnational activist/academic engagements and through the application of a nuanced feminist and decolonial framework. Informationen zum Autor Niharika Banerjea is Professor at the Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. She is co-editor of Lesbian Feminism (Zed, 2019). Kath Browne is a Professor of Geography University College, Dublin. Her research interests lie in sexualities, genders and spatialities. She has worked on LGBT equalities, lesbian geographies, gender transgressions and women’s spaces. She has authored over 100 publications including journal articles and co-wrote (with Leela Bakshi) Ordinary in Brighton: LGBT, activisms and the City (2013), and Queer Spiritual Spaces(2010), and co-edited The Routledge Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities (2016) and Lesbian Geographies (2015). Klappentext Liveable Lives examines what makes life liveable for LGBTQ+ people beyond equality reforms. It refuses the colonizing narrative of surviving in a 'regressive' Global South and thriving in a 'progressive' Global North. By linking the concept of liveability with the decolonial literature on sexualities, this open access book draws on individual's stories, art and writing to examine how lives become liveable across India and the UK, providing a multifaceted investigation of two divergent contexts where activists refuse local framings of exclusion/inclusion and LGBTQ+ lives are continually re-envisioned. Embracing diverse methodologies, including workshops, in-depth interviews, street theatres, and web surveys, the book stands as an example of a queer collaborative praxis that refuses the familiar Global North / Global South practices of theorizing and data gathering. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Vorwort A transnational queer feminist and decolonial empirical exploration of what makes life liveable for LGBTQ people beyond progress/backward narratives in UK and India Zusammenfassung Liveable Lives examines what makes life liveable for LGBTQ+ people beyond equality reforms. It refuses the colonizing narrative of surviving in a ‘regressive’ Global South and thriving in a ‘progressive’ Global North. By linking the concept of liveability with the decolonial literature on sexualities, this open access book draws on individual's stories, art and writing to examine how lives become liveable across India and the UK, providing a multifaceted investigation of two divergent contexts where activists refuse local framings of exclusion/inclusion and LGBTQ+ lives are continually re-envisioned. Embracing diverse methodologies, including workshops, in-depth interviews, street theatres, and web surveys, the book stands as an example of a queer collaborative praxis that refuses the familiar Global North / Global South practices of theorizing and data gathering. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1.Introduction: The Historical Moment of Liveability 2.Beyond Progressive or Backwards Nations: Transnational Decolonial Liveabilities 3.Structures of Inclusion: Within and Beyond Sexualities and Gender Equalities and Rights 4.A Liveable Life? (Non-)Normative Lives, Ordinary Lives 5.Conclusion: Reflecting on the present ...
