Liveable Lives

Kath Browne is a Geography Professor at University College Dublin, Ireland. She currently leads the Beyond Opposition research, an ESRC consolidator project that seeks to investigate the experiences of people who do not support some or all of the changes to sexual and gender equalities in the 21st century and explore new ways of engaging difference, differently. She is the co-author of Heteroactivism (Zed, 2020), and co-editor of After Repeal (Zed, 2020), and Lesbian Feminism (Zed, 2019).Niharika Banerjea is Professor at the Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. She is co-editor of Lesbian Feminism (Bloomsbury, 2019).

• 1.Introduction: The Historical Moment of Liveability 2.Beyond Progressive or Backwards Nations: Transnational Decolonial Liveabilities3.Structures of Inclusion: Within and Beyond Sexualities and Gender Equalities and Rights4.A Liveable Life? (Non-)Normative Lives, Ordinary Lives5.Conclusion: Reflecting on the present

Liveable Lives is timely contribution to queer scholarship in decoding gender-sexual politics within the homonationalist discourse when the idea of a progressive nation majorly pivots on juridico-political legislative reforms, including equalities legislation around employment, same sex marriage, adoption and parental rights, etc. Following real life experiences of LGBTIQ+-identifying citizens in the UK and India, the book raises politically nuanced questions while debunking hegemonic gender-sexual practices and normative regimes of liveability – say, homonormativity – which are integral to nationalist imaginaries of assimilating queers.