Regulation and negotiation of queer subjectivities in post-Soviet Kazakhstan
Journal: ERA
Year: 2020

There is a limited amount of academic research within social sciences investigating the experiences of queer people in post-Soviet Central Asian countries. My study aims to address this gap in the literature by focusing on the everyday narratives of queer people in Kazakhstan within a framework of power and agency, primarily using the theories of Michel Foucault and other scholars such as Hannah Arendt and Erving Goffman. In this study, ‘queer’ is understood as broadly encompassing the whole spe