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Robert Kulpa and Joanna Mizielińska (eds.), De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives (Farnham: 2011: Ashgate). A Comment

Robert Kulpa and Joanna Mizielińska (eds.), De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern... What a great title, I thought, when I first heard of the making of this book De-Centring Western Sexualities in 2010-2011, and how promising, with its unusual interpretative direction, characterised by an active will to say something crucial, I hoped, about Western sexualities (whatever ‘Western’ and ‘sexualities’ mean) from not “so” Western perspectives –as we could learn from the excellent article on “ Nations and Sexualities– ‘West’ and ‘East’ ” by Robert Kulpa (chapter 3). When I finally got the book I was eager to see how the de-centring project would work throughout the ten chapters covering various Central and Eastern European spaces, including those in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia. In the first chapter the editors introduce the concept of ‘temporal disjunction,’ pointing to the historical roots of (homo)sexual political differences between ‘the West’ and ‘the rest,’ referring in this case to Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), that can be captured by imagining the two separate geopolitical-temporal modalities of communism and capitalism, “running parallel, where in 1989 one of them finishes (communism), and the other one becomes universal for both regions (capitalism)” (p. 15). In this context it probably makes perfect sense http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southeastern Europe Brill

Robert Kulpa and Joanna Mizielińska (eds.), De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives (Farnham: 2011: Ashgate). A Comment

Southeastern Europe , Volume 37 (1): 89 – Jan 1, 2013

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Brill
Copyright
© 2013 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
Subject
Debate
ISSN
0094-4467
eISSN
1876-3332
DOI
10.1163/18763332-03701005
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Abstract

What a great title, I thought, when I first heard of the making of this book De-Centring Western Sexualities in 2010-2011, and how promising, with its unusual interpretative direction, characterised by an active will to say something crucial, I hoped, about Western sexualities (whatever ‘Western’ and ‘sexualities’ mean) from not “so” Western perspectives –as we could learn from the excellent article on “ Nations and Sexualities– ‘West’ and ‘East’ ” by Robert Kulpa (chapter 3). When I finally got the book I was eager to see how the de-centring project would work throughout the ten chapters covering various Central and Eastern European spaces, including those in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia. In the first chapter the editors introduce the concept of ‘temporal disjunction,’ pointing to the historical roots of (homo)sexual political differences between ‘the West’ and ‘the rest,’ referring in this case to Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), that can be captured by imagining the two separate geopolitical-temporal modalities of communism and capitalism, “running parallel, where in 1989 one of them finishes (communism), and the other one becomes universal for both regions (capitalism)” (p. 15). In this context it probably makes perfect sense

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Published: Jan 1, 2013

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