Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.15176/vol62no17
LGBTIQ+ Activism and the Creation of Futures in Zagreb
Matija Krizmanić
orcid.org/0009-0004-9259-595X
; Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar, Zagreb
Abstract
Futures are understood through experiences and actions in the present, based on past experiences, imaginations, plans, and anticipations (Bryant and Knight 2019; Appadurai 2013). They are made through possibilities for actions that direct and shape everyday life in the present. Futures are created as agency that orients and shapes present everyday life. This article analyzes LGBTIQ+ agency in the context of future making in the city of Zagreb through professional and everyday activism (Fish et al. 2018). Research on LGBTIQ+ activism in Croatia and the region shows diversity in the interpretation of activist agency and the experiences of sexual and gender minorities in everyday life (Bilić 2016; Đurin 2018). The methodology of the study consists of engaged ethnographic research and analysis of semi-structured in-depth interviews collected through snowball sampling and community participation. The analysis points to connections between LGBTIQ+ activism and everyday life concerning the processes of future making and relationship building within the community. LGBTIQ+ activism demonstrates the ways of future making both at the collective and individual levels through the creation of relationships within the community. Professional and everyday activism represents efforts to build a community for the future, that is, to create a community as an act of future making (Gulin Zrnić and Poljak Istenič 2022).
Keywords
LGBTIQ+ activism, future making, engaged ethnography, everyday activism, professional activism
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Publication date:
24.6.2025.
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