Worldmaking and Everyday Interventions

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13086452
AutoresThomas K Nakayama (autor de correspondencia), Christine E Morris (0000-0002-9335-9578)
Año2015
Volumen2
Número1
Páginasv-viii
Fecha de publicación2015-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQED A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2327-1574 • E-ISSN: 2327-1590
EditorialMichigan State University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.14321/qed.2.1.000v
OpenAlexW2041778016
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas1

In “Sex in Public,” Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner laid out one of the charges of the queer worldmaking project in that it extends well-beyond those who can be identified: “By queer culture we mean a world-making project, where ‘world,’ like ‘public,’ differs from community or group because it necessarily includes more people than can be identified, more spaces than can be mapped beyond a few reference points, modes of feeling that can be learned rather than experienced as a birthright.” Queer worldmaking takes place in all kinds of places, at all different times, involving all kinds of people, who work toward creating a different world. It is not a strategic plan, organized by anyone, but a bottom-up engagement with the everyday. Yet, Berlant and Warner conclude as well that collective action in the public sphere is also a key component of worldmaking: “the heteronormativity of U.S. culture is not something that can be easily rezoned or disavowed by individual acts of will, by a subversiveness imagined only as personal rather than as the basis of public-formation.” Walking the line between individual practice and collective action is never easy as individuals assert their individual rights over a larger unknowable community. The recent case of Kiva highlights this tension. Kiva is a non-profit, microlending organization, based in San Francisco, “with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty.” Using the Internet to loan money, ordinary people can become lenders with as little as $25 to loan to various people whose requests are posted on the Kiva website. Kiva members can loan individually or join various “teams” with their own discussion boards where lenders can learn about various loan requests and other related issues. )))

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