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Raving Potentialities: Navigating Queer Fields in Post-austerity Lisbon

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This chapter examines the potentials and constraints of music research practices centered around queer-feminist techno-spaces in the post-industrial city of Lisbon, Portugal. Taking ‘navigation’ as a key practice of both queer identities and research, this chapter reflects on the performative nature of musical ethnography. Thus, a queer-inspired notion of dis/orientation allows for rethinking how to tell better and less binary stories about ‘the other’ encountered in the research field.

Keywords: Ethnography ; Field Research ; Gender ; Lisbon ; Portugal ; Precarization ; Queer Activism ; Queer Methodology ; Techno ; Techno-space ; Urban Politics

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Raving Potentialities: Navigating Queer Fields in Post-austerity Lisbon
Intellect , 35 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781835950579_4
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