Different Normativity and Strategic 'Nomadic' Marriages: Area Studies and Queer Theory (original) (raw)

Middle East Critique, 2020

Abstract

This article embraces Maya Mikdashi and Jasbir Puar’s recent recommendation ‘for a politics in queer theory that works to displace the United States as the prehensive force foreveryone else’s future’ in order to ponder the scope and reach of queer theory through/as areastudies (Middle East).The article draws upon personal experiences and narratives of homo-desiring men and women in/from Lebanon who perform hetero married life while pursuingsame-sex desire elsewhere, in order to conceive ‘different normativity’ and ‘nomadic unions.’ The article posits‘strategic nomadic marriages’as a fluctuating and unsteady type of unionthat accommodates the particularity of the‘sex/gender systems’of global south societies. Key Words: Different normativity, Hetero-patriarchy, Lebanon, Queer analysis, Sectarianism, Strategic marriage

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