Liveable Lives Living and Surviving LGBTQ Equalities in India and the UK

• Main Authors: Banerjea, Niharika, Browne, Kath
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2023; Bloomsbury Academic
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Book Industry Communication; Brighton; Equality; Feminism; Gender & Sexuality Studies; Gender & the law; Gender and Sexuality in Asia; Gender studies, gender groups; Gender, Sexuality and Race; Human Rights; Intersectionality; Jurisprudence & general issues; Jurisprudence and general issues; Kolkata; Law; Law & society; Law and society, gender issues; Law and society, sociology of law; LGBTQ; LGBTQIA+; Queer studies; Race & Ethnicity Studies; Sexuality; Sexuality and Gender; Social and ethical issues; Social discrimination & inequality; Social discrimination and social justice; Social groups; Social groups, communities and identities; Social issues & processes; Society & culture: general; Society & social sciences; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; thema EDItEUR
• ISBN: 1350286818; 9781350286818; 9781350286801; 135028680X
• DOI: 10.5040/9781350286818

Liveable Lives examines what makes life liveable for LGBTQ+ people beyond equality reforms. It refuses the colonizing narrative of surviving in a ‘regressive’ Global South and thriving in a ‘progressive’ Global North. By linking the concept of liveability with the decolonial literature on sexualities, this open access book draws on individual's stories, art and writing to examine how lives become liveable across India and the UK, providing a multifaceted investigation of two divergent contexts where activists refuse local framings of exclusion/inclusion and LGBTQ+ lives are continually re-envisioned. Embracing diverse methodologies, including workshops, in-depth interviews, street theatres, and web surveys, the book stands as an example of a queer collaborative praxis that refuses the familiar Global North / Global South practices of theorizing and data gathering. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.