Liveable Lives

Name: Liveable Lives
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781350286788
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Living and Surviving LGBTQ Equalities in India and the UK

By Kath Browne and Niharika Banerjea

Summary

Liveable Lives explores what makes life liveable for LGBTQ+ people beyond mere legal equality, challenging the typical narrative that frames the Global South as regressive and the Global North as progressive. Through personal stories, art, and writing from India and the UK, the book investigates how LGBTQ+ lives are continually re-imagined in two very different cultural contexts. Combining diverse research methods such as workshops, interviews, street theatre, and surveys, it models a queer collaborative approach that resists conventional Global North/Global South divisions.

The ebook is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence at www.bloomsburycollections.com.
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This book is ideal for scholars, students, and activists interested in LGBTQ+ studies, queer theory, decolonial approaches, and comparative cultural studies.

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Liveable Lives examines what makes life liveable for LGBTQ+ people beyond equality reforms. It challenges the colonising narrative of surviving in a ‘regressive’ Global South and thriving in a ‘progressive’ Global North. By linking the concept of liveability with the decolonial literature on sexualities, this open access book draws on individuals' stories, art, and writing to explore how lives become liveable across India and the UK. It provides a multifaceted investigation of two divergent contexts where activists refuse local framings of exclusion/inclusion, and LGBTQ+ lives are continually re-envisioned.

Embracing diverse methodologies, including workshops, in-depth interviews, street theatres, and web surveys, the book stands as an example of a queer collaborative praxis that rejects the familiar Global North / Global South practices of theorising and data gathering.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

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Liveable Lives is a timely and critical work in queer scholarship, exploring gender and sexuality politics within homonationalist discourse. It challenges dominant ideas of progressive nationality centred on legal reforms, highlighting real-life LGBTQ+ experiences in the UK and India. Praised for its nuanced political insights and its decolonial reflections on liveability, the book extends Judith Butler’s concept of the 'good life' to analyse contradictory ways queer lives become liveable through legal and everyday struggles. Its creative transnational methodologies have been noted for producing rich, thoughtful accounts of LGBTQ+ citizenship and activism.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350286788

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 June 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 136.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 260g

Pages: 208

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Education & Reference Kath Browne LGBTQ+ Niharika Banerjea Non-Fiction

About the Author

Kath Browne is a Geography Professor at University College Dublin, Ireland. She currently leads the Beyond Opposition research, an ESRC consolidator project that seeks to investigate the experiences of people who do not support some or all of the changes to sexual and gender equalities in the 21st century and explore new ways of engaging difference, differently. She is the co-author of Heteroactivism (Zed, 2020), and co-editor of After Repeal (Zed, 2020), and Lesbian Feminism (Zed, 2019).

Niharika Banerjea is Professor at the Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. She is co-editor of Lesbian Feminism (Bloomsbury, 2019).