Journal article

Publication year: 2018

Pages: 524-541

Journal: Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power

Volume number: 25

Issue number: 5

ISSN: 1547-3384

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289x.2018.1507958

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group

Abstract: 

This article discusses the trajectories of the rainbow flag through the concept of transnationalism and sets up a theoretical exchange between transnational migration research, critical sexuality studies, and queer scholarship. By engaging with the analytical differentiation between transnational ‘ways of being’ and ‘ways of belonging’ this article reads these concepts through a queer lens, while also challenging some of their underlying assumptions. We are asking if, and in that case how, the rainbow flag can be regarded as a visible manifestation of transnational ways of queer being, and as a floating signifier filled with different meanings through quotidian acts and diverse and unequal queer ways of being – interlinked as it is with global hegemonies and colonial genealogies besides signifying local specificities – but nevertheless somehow indicating transnational ways of queer belonging to an imagined queer community.

Harvard Citation style: Klapeer, M. and Laskar Pia (2018) Transnational ways of belonging and queer ways of being. Exploring transnationalism through the trajectories of the rainbow flag, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 25(5), pp. 524-541. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289x.2018.1507958

APA Citation style: Klapeer, M., & Laskar Pia (2018). Transnational ways of belonging and queer ways of being. Exploring transnationalism through the trajectories of the rainbow flag. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. 25(5), 524-541. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289x.2018.1507958