Mia Liinason
Forskningsansvarig | Professor
Exploring Transnational LGBT+ Solidarities across the Norwegian-Russian Border: the Case of Barents Pride
Författare
Summary, in English
This paper explores the case of Barents Pride, an event organized collaboratively by
Russian and Norwegian LGBT+ activists located close to the Norwegian–Russian border. The idea of the Pride is to bring LGBT+ people and activists from Russia, where state pressure limits possibilities of organizing prides, to Norway and to express solidarity across borders. We use this case to investigate pitfalls and promises of queer transnational solidarities, to contest notions of center/periphery, the North/South–East/West division and to analyze how sexuality simultaneously enforces and destabilizes these dichotomies.
Russian and Norwegian LGBT+ activists located close to the Norwegian–Russian border. The idea of the Pride is to bring LGBT+ people and activists from Russia, where state pressure limits possibilities of organizing prides, to Norway and to express solidarity across borders. We use this case to investigate pitfalls and promises of queer transnational solidarities, to contest notions of center/periphery, the North/South–East/West division and to analyze how sexuality simultaneously enforces and destabilizes these dichotomies.
Avdelning/ar
- Genusvetenskapliga institutionen
Publiceringsår
2022
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Sexualities
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
SAGE Publications
Ämne
- Gender Studies
Nyckelord
- solidarity
- LGBTI+
- Russia
- Norway
- transnational pride activism
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1363-4607