%0 Journal Article
%T In search of queer spaces in Tehran: Heterotopias, power geometries and bodily orientations in queer Iranian menĄ¯s lives
%A J¨Žn Ingvar Kjaran
%A Wayne Martino
%J Sexualities
%@ 1461-7382
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1363460717713383
%X This article is based on an ethnographic study that provides insights into queer Iranian menĄ¯s lives in Iran, and specifically in Tehran. It was conceived in response to concerns about accounts provided by gay internationalist framings of the queer Iranian subject as reducible to a meta-narrative of homophobic persecution at the hands of an Islamic repressive state. By employing Foucauldian analytic frameworks that attend to questions of heterotopic spatiality in conjunction with MasseyĄ¯s notion of power geometries and AhmedĄ¯s queer phenomenological perspective, we illuminate the complexity of queer Iranian menĄ¯s spatio-temporal modes of sociality and practices of doing sex. We draw primarily on interviews with eight gay- identifying men as vital sources of data that speak to the terms of the livability of a queer life under repressive conditions of Islamic jurisprudential governance in Iran
%K Criminalization of homosexuality
%K geometries of power
%K heterotopias
%K queer Iranian men
%K queer spaces
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1363460717713383