Kasmani Pakistan Desires

Queer Futures Elsewhere
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2731-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

The contributors to Pakistan Desires offer a multidisciplinary view on figures and forms of queerness in Pakistan, inviting reflection on queer’s myriad meanings in Pakistan and explore how desire can serve as a mode of queer future-making.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kasmani, Omar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. *stan / Omar Kasmani 1
Mehfil
1. Of Girls, Desire, and Sacred Things / Syeda Momina Masood 23
2. Loving Men, Loving God / Shayan Rajani 31
3. Fixed Possibilities: The Threat of Transmasculinity in the Urdu Tale of Agar / Pasha M. Khan 49
4. Spaces of Critique, Spaces of Desire: Gender-Crossing in Pakistani Cinema / Gwendolyn S. Kirk 65
5. Partitioned Listening: Sonic Exercises Outside of Archival Time / Syma Tariq 83
6. Miraji’s Poetics for Queering History / Geeta Patel 100
7. This Is Home after All / Nael Quraishi 118
After Heather Love, and Others / Asad Alvi 121
Mehfil
8. Temporal Nonconformity: Being There Together as Khwajasara in a Time of One’s Own / Vanja Hamzic 125
9. On the Other Side of the Rainbow? Khwaja Sira Pieties, Politics, Performances, and the Tablighi Jama‘at / Claire Pamment 146
10. A Queer History of Pakistani Art: Anwar Saeed and Other Ways of Love / Abdullah Qureshi 166
11. Beyond Hooking Up: Tales from Grindr in Pakistan / Ahmed Afzal 184
12. How I Like It / Nida Mehboob 203
13. Queer Desi Formations: Marking the Boundaries of Cultural Belonging in Chicago / Gayatri Reddy 216
14. Queer in a Time of Kashmir / Jeffrey A. Redding 236
Afterword. Everywhere Mehfil / Anjali Arondekar 251
Contributors 257
Index 263

Über Autor(innen)

Omar Kasmani is Guest Lecturer in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin and author of Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan, also published by Duke University Press.