Department of Early Childhood Education
Library of the School of Education

2023-10-20

2023

Papadakou Panagiota

Λεοντσίνη Μαίρη, Καθηγήτρια, ΕΚΠΑ
Ζαμπέτα Εύη, Καθηγήτρια, ΕΚΠΑ
Χαλκιά Αλεξάνδρα, Καθηγήτρια, Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο
Λέκκα Βάσια, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, ΕΚΠΑ
Μακρυνιώτη Δήμητρα, Ομότιμη Καθηγήτρια, ΕΚΠΑ
Αβραμοπούλου Ειρήνη, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο
Τζελέπη Έλενα, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας

ΛΟΑΤΚ+ νεανικές κοινωνικότητες και πολιτιστικές πρακτικές στη σύγχρονη Αθήνα

Greek

LGBTQ+ youth socialities and cultural practices in contemporary Athens

This ethnographic research studies the ways in which young LGBTQ+ subjects born in Greece during the 1990s and residing in Athens during 2018-2020 construct their subjectivities and communities over the course of their lives. The purpose of the study is to highlight both the disciplinary mechanisms to which they are subject and the resistances and transformative practices they develop. From their childhoods to current participation in aspects of the Athenian LGBTQ+ culture, emphasis is placed on school and family institutions, the transition to LGBTQ+ local communities, the ways and degrees of participation in them, as well as on the cultural practices through which they negotiate issues of identity and social belonging.
The main findings include firstly, that as minors the subjects employ a series of tactics (de Certeau), which challenge and undermine the dominant cultural systems within the school and family contexts, but also a dominant framing of LGBTQ+ young people as victims. LGBTQ+ minors in their everyday lives negotiate their “difference” by calculating their movements, organizing the rhythms of their own “growing sideways” (Stockton) process, claiming recognition, creating social belonging and ascribing meaning to their non-normative subjectivities and desires through consumer practices. Secondly, the analysis of their historically and socially located experiences reveals that age and historical experiences differentiate the inside of contemporary LGBTQ+ communities. Familiarity with international LGBTQ+ representations through the internet, such as through international platforms, foreign series, films and other international (mainly anglophone) cultural products differentiates young LGBTQ+ people from the previous generation, with whom relations are often presented as strained. The subjects’ relationship with the emerging "new identities" as well as with established LGBTQ+ identities of previous generations appears to be ambivalent, bringing about issues of renegotiation of the traditional gender and sexual dichotomies. Thirdly, the cultural activism which proliferated during fieldwork in the grassroots Athenian queer scene is analyzed as a transformative activity which becomes possible through collective work and alliances. It produces ephemeral, mobile, and "inverted" worlds (Bakhtin) in the context of the city, in which the dichotomy between childhood and adulthood as well as the linear (re)productive capitalist time (chrononormativity) are challenged and collective negotiations of urban and national belonging and non-belonging take place.

Social, Political and Economic sciences

gender, sexuality, age, cultural practices

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