DOI 10.60531/INSIGHTOUT.2024.2.4| GERBER: IM RAHMEN DER MÖGLICHKEITEN_ INSIGHTOUT 2(2024) 16 Fig. 2.: Exploring the infrastructures around the museum, © Technisches Museum Wien exclusionary infrastructures, with examples ranging from caste- and religion-based discrimination to homophobia and transphobia. The latter can be traced back not least to the city’s British colonial past. While trans* persons were visible in pre-colonial India as well as its mythology and literature, they have been criminalised and discriminated against ever since. Numerous projects are now up and running in an effort to‘queer’ Kolkata. Libor Den k ’s contribution(Palacký University Olomouc) takes us to a small town in Czechoslovakia during the interwar period. In Nové Mesto na Morave, the town chosen for the case study, urbanisation and industrialisation went hand in hand with the expansion of the infrastructure from the mid-19th century onwards. Even though women’s suffrage had been introduced in 1918, with a few exceptions men remained the sole decision-makers, even at the municipal level. Nations and particularly border regions are the subject of the research undertaken by Aswathy Chandragiri and Madhurima Das (BITS Pilani). How does the infrastructure change when a region is divided by a border – as in the case of the newly drawn state border separating India and Pakistan in Punjab? For the inhabitants of the region, this poses a challenge in terms of both time and space. The authors show that particularly women and people on low incomes are affected by infrastructural violence and have limited agency, for example with regard to public transport. The article by Yaman Kouli (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) also considers the nation concept, but on a completely different level. Kouli aims to pinpoint historical explanations for national characteristics when it comes to the marketing of women’s underwear. To this end, Kouli focuses on the marketing strategies and the images of femininity they convey. The extent to which the underwear is visible or invisible in these images appears to differ from one nation to the next. Can conclusions then be drawn with regard to gender roles and the social status of women? Alexandra Corodan (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) studied Ion Grigorescu’s film Masculin-Feminin (1976), which was shown as part of the workshop. Corodan considers how gender is conveyed and(de-) constructed in this‘collage’, which revolves around the filmmaker’s relationship with his body and its masculine and feminine aspects. Grigorescu is acutely aware of the(infra-)structures – both technical and political – within which the film was made.
Aufsatz in einer Zeitschrift
Within the realm of possibilities : Reflections on the workshop Diverse Infrastructures? Gender, Queer & the Foundations of Society
Seite
16
Einzelbild herunterladen
verfügbare Breiten