Queerness and Heritage

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-84633-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

Heritage and culture have long functioned as vital arenas through which queer and sexually dissident communities articulate resistance, belonging, and representation across the world. Yet, despite the cultural sector’s growing engagement with LGBTQIA+ histories and lives in recent decades, efforts to advance queer liberation and equality through heritage remain highly contested and uneven, with political polarisation and backlash contributing to significant setbacks. Queerness and Heritage interrogates these complex entanglements, tracing their intersections and trajectories of change across diverse cultural, social, and political contexts.

Bringing together twenty-eight authors working at the intersections of scholarship, cultural practice, and activism across multiple contexts and geographies, this volume examines how queer heritage is produced, overlooked, marginalised, advanced, and reclaimed within the social world. From grassroots cultural practices and archives to major museums and heritage organisations, the contributors explore how heritage operates as a site of struggle and is enacted to advance solidarity, resistance, care, and repair. Building on scholarship that brings queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, heritage and museum studies into dialogue, this volume traces and advances new frameworks for understanding queerness and heritage.

Queerness and Heritage provides critical insights for researchers and practitioners working across heritage, museums and culture as well as scholars and students in the fields of queer, gender, sexuality, and trans studies. The volume also speaks to those studying LGBTQIA+ equality movements, engaging in grassroots activism, and contributing to queer cultural production.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moolhuijsen, Nicole

Sandell, Richard

Scott, E-J

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstsammlung, Museen, Ausstellungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 On queerness and heritage; PART I Grassroots queer heritage – Chapter 2 'Paul Preciado fucked my gender': The countersexual Museum of Transology; Chapter 3 Trans heritage: Collection development in Colombian cultural institutions; Chapter 4 An intimate heritage: activists' notes on making an LGBTI+ museum in Brazil; Chapter 5 Letters for a future that has already happened in our bodies; Chapter 6 Queer listening: Ethics, embodiment and the politics of sound heritage; PART II Queering heritage – Chapter 7 On Permissible Beauty: Addressing Black queer absence in our nation's story; Chapter 8 Queering the museum: Decolonial implications for current practice; Chapter 9 What do queer objects do? A material culture perspective on LGBTQIA+ heritage; Chapter 10 Collaborations x community. On the seriousness of queer/trans expertise in art exhibitions; Chapter 11 Reclaiming the exceptional: Activating Taiwanese art collections through karaoke and weak curating; Chapter 12 Care, repair and intersectional re-imaginations: How Black Queer Temporalities enable reflective praxis; PART III Queer futures – Chapter 13 Trans-inclusive culture: Advancing equality in challenging times; Chapter 14 Anti-colonial queer work in the museum of our imagination(s); Chapter 15 Glitter, rage, ceremony: Towards an IndigiQueer museology rooted in Mesoamerica; Chapter 16 Creating braver and safer cultural spaces for queer youth; Chapter 17 Ntu – An African queer trans presence; Chapter 18 Queering the crip, cripping the queer; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Nicole Moolhuijsen (she/they) is a researcher and heritage practitioner who coordinates ICOM Italy’s Working Group on Gender and LGBTQ+ Rights. They work as a heritage consultant and are completing a PhD at the University of Leicester, having previously held research fellowships at IHLIA LGBTI Heritage in Amsterdam and at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Richard Sandell (he/him) is Professor of Museum Studies and Co-Director of the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries at the University of Leicester. His research, frequently carried out in collaboration with museums, galleries and heritage organisations, focuses on their potential role in supporting human rights and social justice.

E-J Scott (he/they) is a curator and cultural producer, and founder of the Museum of Transology - the UK’s most significant collection of trans, non-binary and intersex material culture. He is Senior Lecturer on the BA (Hons)/MA Culture, Criticism & Curation programmes at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.