Affects, Bodies and Desire: ‘Queering’ Methods and Methodologies to Research Queer Migration

In this paper we discuss the main methodological issues raised by a research project we carried out between 2012 and 2013 about Italian queer ‘creative’ migration in Berlin, focusing on the tensions among mobility/movement, desire, bodies, affects and fieldwork. Following an increasing international debate on the topic, the contribution discusses the (im)possibility to develop a queer method or methodology. We stress how ‘queering’ methodologies and methods is not an ontological position pre‐assumed when conducting research with queer‐identified subjects, but is a process of dismantling taken‐... Mehr ...