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The queer commons: introduction
journal contribution
posted on 2023-06-09, 12:18 authored by Gavin Butt, Nadja Millner-LarsenIdeas and practices of “the commons” have been urgently explored in recent years in attempts to forge alternatives to global capitalism and its privatizing enclosures of social life. Contemporary queer energies have been directed to commons-forming initiatives that sustain queer lives otherwise marginalized by heteronormative society and mainstream LGBTQ politics: from activist provision of social services to the maintenance of networks around queer art, protest, public sex, and bar cultures. However, such instances of queer political action and imagination have rarely been recognized within extant discourses of the commons. This introduction sets out differing genealogies of thought within scholarship on the commons and, building on the work of the performance studies scholar José Esteban Muñoz, it asks how, if at all, it is possible to theorize a queer commons.
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GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay StudiesISSN
1064-2684Publisher
Duke University PressExternal DOI
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4Volume
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399-419Department affiliated with
- English Publications
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2018-02-21First Open Access (FOA) Date
2019-10-12First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2018-02-21Usage metrics
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