World, City, Queer

Entanglement - a Queer in the World of Quantum : Some Perspectives

Acknowledgements The author would like to thank her supervisor Dr. Debasis Sarkar, for proper guidance and help without which it would be truly impossible to pursue the research work. The author is also grateful to all the senior scientists of this field or related areas for various discussions, helpful advices and inspirations. Specially, the author acknoledges Dr. G. Kar and group with all th...

Queer Economies

Queer defies categorization and resists preset developmental trajectories. Practices of queering identities emerged near the end of the twentieth century as ways of resisting normalizing networks of power/knowledge. But how effective are queer practices at resisting networks of power/knowledge (including disciplines) that are not primarily normalizing in their functioning? This essay raises tha...

Queer Families

In December 2005, an appeals court in New York State ruled “that the state constitution does not require New York to treat gay couples the same as heterosexual couples in marriage licensing” (Keen 11). The ongoing gay marriage debate has set the stage for many lesbians, gays, and queers to ask what marriage equality really means for the gay movement. According to Michael Warner in the book The ...

The Changing Configurations of World City Networks

City Resilience: Analysis of Strategies World-wide

In recent years, resilience has become an important goal for cities, particularly in the face of political uncertainty, climate change and increasing urbanisation. Resilience theory has yielded informative lessons and brought new perspective when preparing for, and responding to vulnerabilities cities face today, such as natural hazards and social inequalities. However, critical questions on ho...