Affect and queer intimate entanglements in national-neoliberal Estonia

This article examines the affective entanglements and queer/ed intimacies in post-Soviet Estonia by analyzing ethnographic fieldwork. To build an intersectionally engaged analysis, the article employs Karen Barad’s agential realist model of intra-actions to show how intimate relationships are tied t...

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Published in:Sexualities 2024-03, Vol.27 (3), p.718-732
Main Authors: Marling, Raili, Põldsam, Rebeka
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