CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Zivalich, Christopher M. |
|---|---|
| Title | Becoming/Belonging: Negotiating Time and Sexual Citizenship in Poland |
| Summary | In this thesis, I examine "sexual-temporal belonging," or the extent to which sexual practices, identities, and discursively embedded meanings produce exclusions and ways of relating within society through symbolic notions of time, including how sexual citizenship becomes marked by concepts of the future, past, or present. I use post-colonial, post-socialist, and queer theories to engage in a critical discourse analysis of Poland from 2003 to 2008. I argue that in this period, Polish LGBT movements illustrate the way in which the borders of sexual-temporal belonging are negotiated tactically through concepts of looking both “forward" and "backward" rather than inevitably as a result of "modernity," involuntarily as the consequence of Western colonialism, or independently of discursive, material, institutional, and political constraints. I stress that sexual-temporal belonging produces multiple configurations of sexual citizenship vis-à-vis EU membership, Polish nationalism, LGBT rights campaigns, and the relationship between homophobia and anti-Semitism. Ultimately, I challenge "progress" as the inevitable trajectory of sexual politics and furthermore, argue that although sexual-temporal belonging is riddled with contradictions and conflicts, negotiating its borders remains crucial for LGBT activists in Poland as a politics of survival and intelligibility. |
| Supervisor | Renkin, Hadley Z. |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/zivalich_chris.pdf |
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