Pan-Yugoslavia as performative queer 'urban' space: online drag shows disrupting the 'rural'

该项目探讨了LGBTQ+实体空间很少的前南斯拉夫社会中在线变装空间的重要性。以Dragoslavia网路社群为焦点，将会：1)探讨Dragoslavia对于该地区酷儿身份表达与协商的意义；2)探索Dragoslavia如何挑战人们对该地区“农村”和LGBTQ+社区存在受限的看法；3)挑战东欧男扮女装模仿英美LGBTQ+文化的主流观点，探讨泛南斯拉夫身份/怀旧在南斯拉夫的作用。该研究反映了白玫瑰DTP的数据、通信和新技术路径的巨大挑战，即“社会动态如何塑造和被数字数据和基础设施塑造，涉及参与社会问题的新模式”。前南斯拉夫的网络变装社区为LGBTQ+社区的发展提供了一个重要的空间，更广泛的社会可能会积极地接触LGBTQ+文化。在线平台在东欧建立LGBTQ+社区中的作用尚未得到充分研究，因此该项目将为有关技术和社会变革的辩论做出重要贡献。它将使用新技术来探索在线表演空间的影响，并将其兴趣扩展到全球北方和全球南方之外。

The project explores the significance of online drag spaces in former Yugoslavian societies where LGBTQ+ physical spaces are rare. Focusing on the Dragoslavia online community, it will: 1) investigate the significance of Dragoslavia for the expression/negotiation of queer identities in the region; 2) explore how Dragoslavia challenges perceptions of the region as 'rural' and limited regarding LGBTQ+ community presence; and 3) challenge prevailing views that Eastern European drag imitates Anglo-American LGBTQ+ culture by exploring the role of pan-Yugoslav identities/nostalgia in Dragoslavia. The research speaks to the White Rose DTP's Data, Communication and New Technologies Pathway's grand challenges in how "social dynamics shape and are shaped by digital data and infrastructures involving new models of engagement with societal issues". The online drag community in former Yugoslavia provides an important space where LGBTQ+ community can develop and where wider society might positively encounter LGBTQ+ culture. The role of online platforms in building LGBTQ+ communities in Eastern Europe is under-researched, so this project will make important contributions to debates about technology and social change. It will use new techniques to explore the impact of online performance spaces, and expand its interests beyond the Global North and Global South.