Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://dx.doi.org/10.25595/1427
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Drissel, David
Journal Title
Culture unbound : Journal of current cultural research
Year of publication
2017
Volume
8
Issue number
3
Page reference
240-262
Language
englisch
Abstract
The article seeks to demonstrate how marchers in the annual LGBTQ Pride Parade strategically contest and reclaim heteronormative public spaces in Belfast, Northern Ireland. There is an exploration of participants adapting transnational symbolic representations and discourses to the distinct national-local cultural milieu in which they are scripted and performed. The discursive frames, symbols, and performances of Belfast Pride are compared to those of sectarian parades in the city. The subaltern spatial performances and symbolic representations of Belfast Pride are depicted as confronting a universalized set of heteronormative discourses involving sexuality and gender identity, while at the same time contesting a particularized set of dominant local-national discourses related to both ethnonational sectarianism and religious fundamentalism in Northern Ireland.
Publication type
Zeitschriftenartikel
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