Ahmed, ‘On Dream Making and Aspired Migration of Queer Bodies’, 2017

Yara Mamdouh Ahmed, ‘On Dream Making and Aspired Migration of Queer Bodies’, 2017 Kohl 3.1: pp. 93-104

In looking at the relationship between the body and the state when it is at its most vulnerable, in the sites of imagination and its making, this paper will explore how queer bodies imagine movement in the advent of a neoliberal discourse of rights, laws, and citizenship. What is it in the apparatuses of the neoliberal moment that washes over the processes of dreaming of a “somewhere else,” shaping the potentialities of movement, the spaces we can imagine and create, and the spaces that seem unreachable? The notion of citizenship will be a primary focus in my research, particularly sexual citizenship, as an incarnation of the state’s capacity to fix the subject to rigid structures and dispositifs of control.