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DOI 10.60531/INSIGHTOUT.2024.2.4| GERBER: IM RAHMEN DER MÖGLICHKEITEN_ INSIGHTOUT 2(2024) 16Fig. 2.: Exploring the infrastructures around the museum,© Technisches Museum Wienexclusionary infrastructures, with examples rangingfrom caste- and religion-based discrimination to ho-mophobia and transphobia. The latter can be tracedback not least to the city’s British colonial past. Whi-le trans* persons were visible in pre-colonial India aswell as its mythology and literature, they have beencriminalised and discriminated against ever since.Numerous projects are now up and running in an ef-fort to‘queer’ Kolkata.Libor Den k’s contribution(Palacký University Olo-mouc) takes us to a small town in Czechoslovakia du-ring the interwar period. In Nové Mesto na Morave,the town chosen for the case study, urbanisation andindustrialisation went hand in hand with the expan-sion of the infrastructure from the mid-19th centuryonwards. Even though women’s suffrage had beenintroduced in 1918, with a few exceptions men remai-ned the sole decision-makers, even at the municipallevel.Nations and particularly border regions are the sub-ject of the research undertaken byAswathy Chan-dragiriandMadhurima Das(BITS Pilani). How doesthe infrastructure change when a region is dividedby a border – as in the case of the newly drawn stateborder separating India and Pakistan in Punjab? Forthe inhabitants of the region, this poses a challengein terms of both time and space. The authors showthat particularly women and people on low incomesare affected by infrastructural violence and havelimited agency, for example with regard to publictransport.The article byYaman Kouli(Heinrich Heine Universi-ty Düsseldorf) also considers the nation concept, buton a completely different level. Kouli aims to pinpointhistorical explanations for national characteristicswhen it comes to the marketing of women’s underwe-ar. To this end, Kouli focuses on the marketing stra-tegies and the images of femininity they convey. Theextent to which the underwear is visible or invisiblein these images appears to differ from one nation tothe next. Can conclusions then be drawn with regardto gender roles and the social status of women?Alexandra Corodan(Academy of Fine Arts Vien-na) studied Ion Grigorescu’s filmMasculin-Feminin(1976), which was shown as part of the workshop. Co-rodan considers how gender is conveyed and(de-)constructed in this‘collage’, which revolves aroundthe filmmaker’s relationship with his body and its ma-sculine and feminine aspects. Grigorescu is acutelyaware of the(infra-)structures – both technical andpolitical – within which the film was made. 