CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Sheedy, Sydney Jean |
|---|---|
| Title | "Qu(e)'erying the Qur'an:" How non-heterosexual Muslims in London articulate sexual citizenship narratives |
| Summary | This thesis aims to situate the phenomenon of “homonationalism” into lived experience in order to lay bare the contextual specificities of queer Muslim subjectivites in London, UK and to examine the local refigurations of power that informants enact therein. Through fieldwork at an inclusive Mosque in London, and interviews with queeridentifying Muslims, this ethnographic approach is dedicated to analyzing how those considered inauthentic in homonationalist imaginaries, and who are often elided in critical discourses of homonationalism itself, articulate narratives of sexual citizenship that challenge the regulatory codes of a universalizing script of homonormative sexuality, and how they make these pleas for belonging through a parallel reconstitution of Muslim normativities. I argue that examining homonationalism through sexual citizenship narratives captures the local navigations of power while still addressing how these micrological performances garner meaning in transnational networks of Muslim and queer belonging, and such an approach is useful in exposing how citizenship emerges as much through narrative iterations as do the categories of “Muslim” and “queer” that informants differently affirm and alter. |
| Supervisor | Geva, Dorit |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/sheedy_sydney.pdf |
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