Abstract:This essay revisits "Area Impossible: The Geopolitics of Queer Studies" (2016), a special issue coedited by Anjali Arondekar and Geeta Patel. It considers both the overall aims of the issue, including that of reading the politics of queer and area studies as "coincident," and the signal contributions of articles from the issue (e.g., on the question of temporality). The essay examines how the articles both engage with and disavow "queer" and "area" while giving critical and locational specificity to both terms.

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地区和酷儿之间可能的不可能

摘要：本文重温了 Anjali Arondekar 和 Geeta Patel 合编的特刊“不可能的区域：酷儿研究的地缘政治学”（2016 年）。它考虑了该问题的总体目标，包括将酷儿政治和地区研究视为“巧合”，以及该问题文章的信号贡献（例如，关于时间性问题）。这篇文章研究了这些文章如何在对“酷儿”和“区域”这两个术语给予批判性和位置特异性的同时参与和否认这两个词。