Dismantling the Geotemporality of Europeanization: The First European Festival of Lesbian and Gay Film was Yugoslav
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This paper draws upon my fieldwork at the Festival of Gay and Lesbian Film in Ljubljana to examine how “Europeanness” is used to ground the legitimacy of minoritarian organizations, but also to question the assumptions implicit in such claims to belonging. I argue that the discourse of Europeanness is used in similarly ambivalent ways in both Slovenian lgbt activism and official Slovenian politics: for political and institutional legitimization that also performs a distancing from the post-Yugoslav region. This discursive distancing serves to hide the constant processes of negotiation of belonging within the eu as well as ongoing practical cooperation and communication within the post-Yugoslav region. Attention to such strategic tensions opens up a possibility of formulating a critique of the discourse that posits Europeanization as the only possible future for the region and Europe as an imagined space of tolerance for minorities.
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Since the winter of 2010, there have already been four other editions of the Ljubljana fglf. Moreover, there is a new lesbian multimedia festival in Ljubljana since 2012 – "Lesbian neighbourhood/Lezbična četrt". For my PhD research, I did fieldwork at the Ljubljana festival, and one Zagreb festival – Queer Zagreb. Yet, I ended up focusing on the Zagreb festival, and used the insights about the Ljubljana festival only to analyze the complex network of post-Yugoslav queer festivals. This paper is my attempt to discuss the practices and views of the Ljubljana festival community, at least in part.
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Jalušić (1999) explains that the first feminist groups started "simultaneously with the so-called new social movement groups that were active under the umbrella of the Socialist Youth Organization" (113). The first lg groups started in the same way within the škuc as the umbrella organization: the gay group Magnus in 1984, and the ll as the lesbian group within the feminist group Lilit (within škuc) in 1987, becoming an independent "section" in 1988 – the today’s škuc-ll.
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Dismantling the Geotemporality of Europeanization: The First European Festival of Lesbian and Gay Film was Yugoslav
In: Southeastern EuropeSearch for other papers by Sanja Kajinić in
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This paper draws upon my fieldwork at the Festival of Gay and Lesbian Film in Ljubljana to examine how “Europeanness” is used to ground the legitimacy of minoritarian organizations, but also to question the assumptions implicit in such claims to belonging. I argue that the discourse of Europeanness is used in similarly ambivalent ways in both Slovenian lgbt activism and official Slovenian politics: for political and institutional legitimization that also performs a distancing from the post-Yugoslav region. This discursive distancing serves to hide the constant processes of negotiation of belonging within the eu as well as ongoing practical cooperation and communication within the post-Yugoslav region. Attention to such strategic tensions opens up a possibility of formulating a critique of the discourse that posits Europeanization as the only possible future for the region and Europe as an imagined space of tolerance for minorities.
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