Normative anti-normativity: when Dugin reads queer theory.
In line with a recent rise in anti-LGBTQ discourse within conservative Russian politics, Aleksandr Dugin has increasingly critiqued "postmodern" theories that allegedly underpin social diversity (sexual, gender, racial, etc.) within the West: queer theory, post-structuralism, and other theoretical a...
| Publicado en: | Studies in East European Thought Vol. 78; no. 1/2; pp. 263 - 283 |
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