{"id":22195,"date":"2011-06-18T09:46:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T08:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agqueerstudies.de\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2011-06-19T01:04:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T00:04:11","slug":"robert-kulpa-con-temporal-peripheries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meta.copyriot.com\/2011\/06\/robert-kulpa-con-temporal-peripheries\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Kulpa: Con-Temporal Peripheries"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LogoIm Mai diesen Jahres war Robert Kulpa<\/a> bei uns zu Gast. Der aus Polen stammende Queer Theoretiker lebt seit einigen Jahren in London, wo er seine Doktorarbeit im Department of Psychosocial Studies am Birkbeck College schreibt. Darin, wie auch in seinem Vortrag, besch\u00e4ftigt er sich mit Zeit, Raum, Wissen und Aktivismus zwischen den Sexualit\u00e4ten Zentral-\/Osteuropas und des Westens. Wenn aus westlicher Perspektive dar\u00fcber gesprochen wird, die Gesellschaften und queer Bewegungen Zentral- und Osteuropas seien noch nicht “so weit” wie wir, wird darin ein Narrativ linearer Entwicklung angelegt, bei der “der Westen” voran schreitet und alle anderen diesen Pfad befolgen m\u00fcssen. In “Con-Temporal Peripheries: Disjunctions in space and time, knowledge and activism, between Central-Eastern European and Western sexualities” wird diese Konstruktion einer zeitlich-r\u00e4umlichen Peripherie einer Dekonstruktion unterzogen. K\u00fcnstlerisch haben sich die Pet Shop Boys \u00fcbrigens schon 1993 im Video zu “Go West” (Video bei youtube<\/a>) mit diesem Narrativ auseinander gesetzt. Das Video wurde von Robert am Ende des Vortrages gezeigt. <\/p>\n

Wer sich n\u00e4her mit dem Thema dieses Vortrages besch\u00e4ftigen m\u00f6chte, der_dem sei der Band \u201cDe-centring Western sexualities: Central and Eastern European perspectives<\/a>\u201d empfohlen, den Robert zusammen mit Joanna Mizielinska herausgegeben hat.<\/p>\n

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Recently, we could observe the proliferation of works about non-Western manifestations of sexuality. However, queer studies by embracing margins, outskirts, de-centring politics of geo-location, continue to be focused on post-colonial \u201cfar far away\u201d regions, and almost no work is done about the \u201cneighbouring\u201d Central and Eastern Europe. In this presentation, I will try to problematize\/pluralize the notion of Western sexuality and indicate \u201ccon-temporal periphery\u201d \u2013 i.e. mechanisms of \u201cothering\u201d CEE (by, e.g. rendering it as \u201cpermanently transitional\u201d\/\u201dpost-communist\u201d).<\/p>\n

After the collapse of the \u201cIron Curtain\u201d, Western-style politics was adopted throughout CEE, without much questioning of its historical particularisms and suitability for the new context. When lesbian and gay activism begin to emerge in the CEE countries, West was already at the \u2018queer\u2019 stage, with long history and plurality of models and forms of engagement. Conversely, the communist past of CEE built completely different social structures and modalities. This could be graphically represented as two separate geopolitical-temporal modalities running parallel, where in 1989 one of them finishes, and the other one becomes universal for both. Indeed, it should be even more complicated, and represented as \u201cknotting\u201d and \u201clooping\u201d of time(s).<\/p>\n

However, often when we try to \u201cundo\u201d\/explain those knotted realities, we try to \u201clinearise\u201d the \u201chere and now\u201d reality of CEE, by categorising various activities and approaches as belonging to a certain historical narrative. Thus organising the \u201cknotted temporality of CEE\u201d into \u201cfamiliar\u201d stages and inscribing it into particular history (here: into Western history of LGBTQ movements), we already simplify it in order to make sense of it. But do we actually succeed? Does such \u201cunknotting\u201d make sense? For whom? And what are the prerequisites to be able to understand it in either form? In other words, we feel it is important to ask, why certain models are familiar to \u201call\u201d? And why \u201clocal\u201d narrations of lesbian and gay emancipation will be seen as, precisely, \u201clocal\u201d and not \u201cuniversally\u201d recognised?<\/p>\n

With this presentation, I will undertake the task of questioning the power relations between \u201cWest\u201d and \u201cCEE\u201d, between western queer academic scholarship and CEE theoretical insights, calling for not only for \u201cde-centralisation of queer theory\u201d, but also for greater attentiveness to spatial and temporal choices in doing so.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"LogoIm Mai diesen Jahres war Robert Kulpa<\/a> bei uns zu Gast. Der aus Polen stammende Queer Theoretiker lebt seit einigen Jahren in London, wo er seine Doktorarbeit im Department of Psychosocial Studies am Birkbeck College schreibt. Darin, wie auch in seinem Vortrag, besch\u00e4ftigt er sich mit Zeit, Raum, Wissen und Aktivismus zwischen den Sexualit\u00e4ten Zentral-\/Osteuropas und des Westens. Wenn aus westlicher Perspektive dar\u00fcber gesprochen wird, die Gesellschaften und queer Bewegungen Zentral- und Osteuropas seien noch nicht “so weit” wie wir, wird darin ein Narrativ linearer Entwicklung angelegt, bei der “der Westen” voran schreitet und alle anderen diesen Pfad befolgen m\u00fcssen. In “Con-Temporal Peripheries: Disjunctions in space and time, knowledge and activism, between Central-Eastern European and Western sexualities” wird diese Konstruktion einer zeitlich-r\u00e4umlichen Peripherie einer Dekonstruktion unterzogen. 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