A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias [Hardcover]

This anthology is a symposium on queer space and queer utopias. Through the presentation of empirical work by contemporary queer theorists this book aims to create a critical dialogue about the emergence of queer spaces and the ways in which they aim to further queer futurity.Notes on Contributors Introduction: Queer Utopias, Queer Futurity and Potentiality in Quotidian Practice; Angela Jones PART I: THEATRE PERFORMANCE 1. The Play Within the Film: Tel Aviv, History and the Queer Utopia, David Gorshein 2. It's about time, Queer Utopias, and Theatre Performance; Stephen Farrier PART II: EROTICIZED SPACES 3. Queer Utopias in Painful Spaces: BDSM Participants' Interrelational Resistance to Heteronormativity and Gender Regulation; Brandy L. Simula 4. The Queer Potentiality of Barebacking: Charging, Whoring, & Breeding as Utopian Practices; Brandon Andrew Robinson PART III: QUEER COUNTERPUBLICS 5. Performing Utopia: Queer Counterpublics and Southerners on New Ground; Sarah Steele 6. Landscaping Classrooms toward Queer Utopias; Kat Rands, Jess McDonald, and Lauren Clapp PART IV: QUEER POLITICAL ACTIVISM 7. The Utopia of Europe's LGBTQ Visibility Campaigns in the Politics of Everyday Life: the Utopic of Social Hope in the Images of Queer Spaces; Pawel Leszkowicz and Tomasz Kitlinski 8. Utopian Pragmatics: Bash Back! and the Temporality of Radical Queer Action; Hilary Malatino PART V: FAMILY 9. Radical Experiments Involving Innocent Children: Locating Parenthood in the Queer Utopia; Jane Ward 10. Utopian Kinship?: Queer Families with Children; Laura HestonIntroduction PART I: THEATRE PERFORMANCE

'This volume brings a level of sophistication to both the social sciences and humanities-based queer theory as a way to ignite a new queer cultural studies. Using interdisciplinary methods, it makes the reader seize a queer futurity we already have access to if only at momentarily times and spaces refusing to accept that belonging, and making community, aren't happening lSç