The rainbow flag as friction: transnational imagined communities of belonging among Pakistani LGBTQ activists
This article analyzes the frictions the rainbow flag creates between transnational, national and translocal discourses and materialities. It focuses on the ambivalent role that the transnational ‘rainbow’ space plays for community building for LGBTQ activists in in Pakistan. The rainbow flag can fu...
Main Authors: | Erika Alm, Lena Martinsson |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Linköping University Electronic Press
2017-02-01
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Series: | Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research |
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Online Access: | https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/38 |
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