Back to Search
Start Over
Cruising in-between immunity and community: A virtual ethnography of cruising in Istanbul.
- Source :
- Sexualities; Sep2022, Vol. 25 Issue 5/6, p523-545, 23p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
-
Abstract
- This article revisits the concept of (virtual) cruising with the purpose of uncovering an often-disregarded fact in queer theory: that cruising is equally about rejecting as it is about welcoming others/otherness. With the help of two critical conceptual tools, community and immunity, that I borrow from Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito, this paper discusses how a particular Geosocial Networking Application, Hornet, both enables and undermines the emergence of a virtual community in Istanbul, Turkey. While defying heteronormativity, Hornet reproduces violence in the shape of homonormativity, endangering what it claims to offer originally: community. By addressing cruising in relation not only to community but also immunity, this article makes an intervention in queer theory's tendency to reduce cruising to a universal welcoming of otherness. This paper aims to revisit both the communitarian potentials and immunitarian risks of cruising in the light of a rather politicized analysis grounded in the everyday experiences of ordinary people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13634607
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 5/6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Sexualities
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 159191578
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460720973893