Struggles over Queer Space: Drag Kings’ Appropriations of Performance Events in Prague
| Thesis title in Czech: | Boje o queer prostor: Drag Kings místa k představení a podniky v Praze |
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| Thesis title in English: | Struggles over Queer Space: Drag Kings’ Appropriations of Performance Events in Prague |
| Key words: | drag, drag kings, queer prostor, queer reprezentace, diskriminace, zkoumání queer těl v prostoru, situované identity, dekolonizace, kolonialita genderu, trans identity |
| English key words: | drag, drag kings, queer space, queer representation, discrimination, exploration of queer bodies within space, situated identities, decolonisation, coloniality of gender, trans identities |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2022/2023 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Department of Sociology (24-KS) |
| Supervisor: | Dagmar Lorenz - Meyer, M.A., Ph.D. |
| Author: | hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 09.02.2023 |
| Date of assignment: | 09.02.2023 |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 06.02.2024 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 26.03.2024 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 14.06.2024 |
| Course: | Bachelor Thesis Defense (YBAJSZ01) |
| Opponents: | doc. Mgr. Kateřina Kolářová, Ph.D. |
| References |
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| Preliminary scope of work |
| This thesis examines the co-creation of drag king identities and the spaces, queer and otherwise, which they utilize for performance. I investigate who exercises the power of production of these spaces, how these powers are contested, and the political motivations and effects of drag kinging. Here I attend to the opening of queer spaces to a straight public and the movements of drag kings into spaces not demarcated as “queer”, and how these spaces are utilized, contested, and marked by their performances. The thesis draws on recent developments in queer theory, embodiment, and translocal developments to analyze how a local/global perspective informs queer spaces and identities, and the effects of drag, both on performers and audiences, as well as politically, as part of efforts to decolonialize normative spaces.
Key Words drag, drag kings, queer space, queer representation, discrimination, exploration of queer bodies within space, situated identities, queer becoming |
| Preliminary scope of work in English |
| This thesis examines the co-creation of drag king identities and the spaces, queer and otherwise, which they utilize for performance. I investigate who exercises the power of production of these spaces, how these powers are contested, and the political motivations and effects of drag kinging. Here I attend to the opening of queer spaces to a straight public and the movements of drag kings into spaces not demarcated as “queer”, and how these spaces are utilized, contested, and marked by their performances. The thesis draws on recent developments in queer theory, embodiment, and translocal developments to analyze how a local/global perspective informs queer spaces and identities, and the effects of drag, both on performers and audiences, as well as politically, as part of efforts to decolonialize normative spaces. |