Marie Lunau
Biographic Data
| ID | 1248824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marie Lunau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Lunau |
| SIGNATURE | LUNAU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7081-274X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Queer tattooing
This article examines queer tattooing as both a historical and a contemporary practice of resistance, belonging and community formation. Bringing together three archives – oral history interviews and portraits of queer elders, historical medical records documenting tattooed queer women engaged in sex work at the turn of the twentieth century and a dialogue with queer tattoo artist Sara Swanson – we consider what queer tattooing reveals across gen…
Forces of love in queer asylum
This article examines the affective politics of love within queer asylum regimes in Denmark and Germany. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with queer refugees, volunteers and immigration officials, we analyse how love functions as both a regulatory and a generative force across asylum assessment and support practices. In the process of refugee status determination, applicants must not only establish the factual basis of their claim…
“She never married”
This article challenges dominant narratives of queer absence in historical archives by examining women’s same-sex relationships in Denmark at the turn of the 20th century. While feminist and queer scholars have often emphasised archival silences surrounding non-heterosexual lives, we uncover not an archive of loss, but one of abundance. Drawing on Anjali Arondekar’s concept of “archival abundance,” we analyse demographic data and archival materia…
Notes on loving a university that doesn’t love me back
This essay/rant/note explores the ambivalent relationship between love, work and temporality within contemporary academia through the perspective of an early career scholar navigating fixed-term employment. Drawing on queer and Black feminist scholarship, the piece examines how universities sustain themselves through exhaustion and accelerated productivity. I consider the ambivalences and tensions between critique and participation, questioning w…
A sapphic love story as a window into sex work and rebellion at the turn of the Twentieth Century
Through newly discovered archival sources, including love letters, police records, hospital files and censuses, this article tracks the love story of two young women, Flora and Agnes, a same-sex couple at the turn of the nineteenth century, working in the sex trade. Their story takes us through police arrest, forced hospitalisation and leisure spaces such as dance halls. Historically, Flora and Agnes represent the many sex workers, who engaged in…
Archives of affective ambivalence in the governance of queer asylum
This article explores the politics of truth and recognition in the assessment of queer asylum claims in Denmark, focusing on how credibility is produced, evaluated and governed through affect. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with queer asylum seekers and immigration officers, alongside rejection letters from the Danish Immigration Service, I explore how asylum seekers are compelled to produce intimate affective archives of desire…
Coloniality In queer asylum
Flora's Space
This article delves into the affective lives, desires, and acts of resistance among queer women in late nin eteenth-century Denmark through the love letters of Flora Mathilde Freigaard Larsen to her girlfriend, Agnes Nathalie Olsen. Both women were registered as "public women," signifying their involvement in sex work under Denmark's regime of "statutory prostitution," which tightly regulated women's sexual activities. By exploring Flora's letter…
Epistemic translation
This article contributes to the scholarship on queer migration by exploring the translation of knowledge as a concept and process whereby social, cultural and epistemic histories and structures are negotiated. Drawing on my own experiences of engaging in ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative interviews with queer asylum seekers in Denmark, I reflect on ways of translating knowledge by focusing on the epistemological, methodological and affective…
Surveillance practices among migration officers
Examining Denmark as a case study, and focusing on LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in particular, this article investigates migration authorities’ use of online surveillance to assess claims for asylum. Drawing on interviews with migration officers and asylum seekers, the article describes how asylum seekers’ social media and phone content comes to determine whether they are seen as having a ‘genuine’ or a ‘fraudulent’ LGBTQ+ identity. The article further …
The trouble with ‘truth’. On the politics of life and death in the assessment of queer asylum seekers
This article explores death and dying in the context of queer migration by reflecting on the ways in which queer asylum seekers are exposed to various forms and manifestations of death through the process of seeking asylum. The article is based on qualitative interviews with queer asylum seekers in Denmark. Drawing on the concept of necropolitics, the article considers how the politics of truth within the asylum system manage life and death not o…
Surveillance practices among migration officers
Examining Denmark as a case study, and focusing on LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in particular, this article investigates migration authorities’ use of online surveillance to assess claims for asylum. Drawing on interviews with migration officers and asylum seekers, the article describes how asylum seekers’ social media and phone content comes to determine whether they are seen as having a ‘genuine’ or a ‘fraudulent’ LGBTQ+ identity. The article further …
The trouble with ‘truth’. On the politics of life and death in the assessment of queer asylum seekers
This article explores death and dying in the context of queer migration by reflecting on the ways in which queer asylum seekers are exposed to various forms and manifestations of death through the process of seeking asylum. The article is based on qualitative interviews with queer asylum seekers in Denmark. Drawing on the concept of necropolitics, the article considers how the politics of truth within the asylum system manage life and death not o…
Coloniality In queer asylum
Flora's Space
This article delves into the affective lives, desires, and acts of resistance among queer women in late nin eteenth-century Denmark through the love letters of Flora Mathilde Freigaard Larsen to her girlfriend, Agnes Nathalie Olsen. Both women were registered as "public women," signifying their involvement in sex work under Denmark's regime of "statutory prostitution," which tightly regulated women's sexual activities. By exploring Flora's letter…
The trouble with ‘truth’. On the politics of life and death in the assessment of queer asylum seekers
This article explores death and dying in the context of queer migration by reflecting on the ways in which queer asylum seekers are exposed to various forms and manifestations of death through the process of seeking asylum. The article is based on qualitative interviews with queer asylum seekers in Denmark. Drawing on the concept of necropolitics, the article considers how the politics of truth within the asylum system manage life and death not o…
Surveillance practices among migration officers
Examining Denmark as a case study, and focusing on LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in particular, this article investigates migration authorities’ use of online surveillance to assess claims for asylum. Drawing on interviews with migration officers and asylum seekers, the article describes how asylum seekers’ social media and phone content comes to determine whether they are seen as having a ‘genuine’ or a ‘fraudulent’ LGBTQ+ identity. The article further …
Epistemic translation
This article contributes to the scholarship on queer migration by exploring the translation of knowledge as a concept and process whereby social, cultural and epistemic histories and structures are negotiated. Drawing on my own experiences of engaging in ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative interviews with queer asylum seekers in Denmark, I reflect on ways of translating knowledge by focusing on the epistemological, methodological and affective…
Coloniality In queer asylum
Flora's Space
This article delves into the affective lives, desires, and acts of resistance among queer women in late nin eteenth-century Denmark through the love letters of Flora Mathilde Freigaard Larsen to her girlfriend, Agnes Nathalie Olsen. Both women were registered as "public women," signifying their involvement in sex work under Denmark's regime of "statutory prostitution," which tightly regulated women's sexual activities. By exploring Flora's letter…
Queer tattooing
This article examines queer tattooing as both a historical and a contemporary practice of resistance, belonging and community formation. Bringing together three archives – oral history interviews and portraits of queer elders, historical medical records documenting tattooed queer women engaged in sex work at the turn of the twentieth century and a dialogue with queer tattoo artist Sara Swanson – we consider what queer tattooing reveals across gen…
Forces of love in queer asylum
This article examines the affective politics of love within queer asylum regimes in Denmark and Germany. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with queer refugees, volunteers and immigration officials, we analyse how love functions as both a regulatory and a generative force across asylum assessment and support practices. In the process of refugee status determination, applicants must not only establish the factual basis of their claim…
“She never married”
This article challenges dominant narratives of queer absence in historical archives by examining women’s same-sex relationships in Denmark at the turn of the 20th century. While feminist and queer scholars have often emphasised archival silences surrounding non-heterosexual lives, we uncover not an archive of loss, but one of abundance. Drawing on Anjali Arondekar’s concept of “archival abundance,” we analyse demographic data and archival materia…
Notes on loving a university that doesn’t love me back
This essay/rant/note explores the ambivalent relationship between love, work and temporality within contemporary academia through the perspective of an early career scholar navigating fixed-term employment. Drawing on queer and Black feminist scholarship, the piece examines how universities sustain themselves through exhaustion and accelerated productivity. I consider the ambivalences and tensions between critique and participation, questioning w…
A sapphic love story as a window into sex work and rebellion at the turn of the Twentieth Century
Through newly discovered archival sources, including love letters, police records, hospital files and censuses, this article tracks the love story of two young women, Flora and Agnes, a same-sex couple at the turn of the nineteenth century, working in the sex trade. Their story takes us through police arrest, forced hospitalisation and leisure spaces such as dance halls. Historically, Flora and Agnes represent the many sex workers, who engaged in…
Archives of affective ambivalence in the governance of queer asylum
This article explores the politics of truth and recognition in the assessment of queer asylum claims in Denmark, focusing on how credibility is produced, evaluated and governed through affect. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with queer asylum seekers and immigration officers, alongside rejection letters from the Danish Immigration Service, I explore how asylum seekers are compelled to produce intimate affective archives of desire…
Queer (10 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Refugee (4 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works)