Based on a ten-month ethnographic study that took place in an on-line collective space of Russian-speaking queer immigrants who live in Israel/Palestine, this thesis pursues the question: what are the relations between violence and belonging? Contrary to most research that addresses immigrants and queers solely as victims of violence (racial or homophobic), I argue that violence should be seen as a complex social and psychic phenomenon that is constitutive of spaces of belonging and not just a background against which belonging takes place. I further argue that violence of a particular type never stands alone and that it operates not only through particular figures but through multifaceted relations between them.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:497137 |
Date | January 2006 |
Creators | Kuntsman, Adi |
Publisher | Lancaster University |
Source Sets | Ethos UK |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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