Rethinking the sexual citizenship from queer and post-Soviet perspectives

Queer urban spaces and the right to the socialist city

Dados Bibliográficos

ID18990789
AutoresAlexander Kondakov (0000-0002-0094-906X, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume22
Fascículo3
Páginas401-417
Data de publicação2019-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSexualities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1363-4607 • E-ISSN: 1461-7382
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1363460717737770
OpenAlexW2768815457
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas17
Referências citadas25

In this article, I use the analysis of citizenship regimes and their revolutionary changes as a point of departure to offer an improvement of the notion of grassroots politics. The focus of the article is on queer citizenship as it evolved in alternative modernity that the USSR conditioned. Immediately after the October Revolution, the new government deliberately proclaimed a new sexual freedom and rearranged the material conditions of living in urban areas of the country. This resulted in unexpected changes of practice, one of which is the multiplication of public space. Contrary to conventional forms of politics, Soviet queer politics was reallocated to parallel urban spaces. This analysis allows one to address the particular relations between one’s sexuality and political participation, citizenship and materiality, market economy and revolutions

Citizenship · Grassroots · Human sexuality · Modernity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public space · Queer · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Law · Soviet and Russian History