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Queer habitus: bodily performance and queer ethnography in Lebanon

2014/04/15 by Sofian Merabet · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #Middle East Politics and Society

paper · doi:10.1080/1070289x.2014.907168

openalex publication_date 2014/04/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

Based on ethnographic and theoretical material, this article focuses on the interaction of queer bodies within particular urban spaces in Beirut. By highlighting bodily performances that challenge normative behaviour in contemporary Lebanon, the article makes a case for the production of a queer habitus, which finds itself expressed in different ways that all emphasise the importance of bodily and mental dispositions of queer individuals in forming their own gender and class identities.

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