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Queer disruptions
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Queer disruptions
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modernity and non-normative gender and sexualities in post-war Beirut
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Moussawi
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1985-
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Ghassan Moussawi
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Mische
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Zakia
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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My dissertation addresses the changing historical meanings of sexual practices and identities, and the effects of political turmoil and conflict on the experiences of LGBTQ individuals in post-war Beirut. Drawing on ethnographic observations, life history interviews and content analysis, I rethink how claims of modernity and progress operate by focusing on queer sexualities in Beirut since the year 2005. Dominant Euro-American understandings of coming out and LGBTQ visibility are often used as indicators of non-Western societies’ modernity and progress. My work complicates this stance, illustrating how queer lives in Beirut unsettle and disrupt binaries of visibility/invisibility and tradition/progress. In addition, I show how dominant narratives of modernity view the emergence of “gay rights” in the Middle East as a marker of progress, without taking into account local exclusionary practices. I examine public discourses, personal narratives, and collective organizing strategies in a number of different contexts. Unlike much research that focuses on how sexuality emerges as the most salient marker of difference in LGBT people’s personal narratives, my research illustrates that LGBT individuals in Beirut emphasize how gender, class, and sectarian identities act as their primary modes of visible self-making. Rather than treating queer visibility as a hallmark of progress, individuals devise strategies of visibility such as creating and living in what they refer to as “imagined bubbles.” Queer Beirutis’ strategies vary across different family and social contexts and are shaped by political turmoil, regional instability, and sectarian conflict. Using a feminist intersectional lens, I highlight how various queer social circles contest, yet unwittingly reproduce, the exclusionary practices of Beirut’s cosmopolitanism that sideline gender-nonnormative and transgender persons, as well as migrant workers and refugees. Marginalized queer Beirutis, particularly working-class and gender-nonconforming individuals, question Beirut’s cosmopolitanism and carve out new understandings of queer visibilities that challenge dominant understandings of modernity and progress.
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Sociology
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Gender identity--Lebanon--Beirut
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Homosexuality--Lebanon--Beirut
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by Ghassan Moussawi
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after May 31st, 2018.
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