Amin Ghaziani

Amin Ghaziani is a sociologist and author who is professor of sociology and Canada Research Chair in urban sexualities at University of British Columbia.[1] Ghaziani has been awarded fellowships by the Princeton Society of Fellows in Liberal Arts and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.[2]

Amin Ghaziani
Academic background
Alma materNorthwestern University
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Main interestsUrban Sexuality, Gayborhood

Early life and education

Ghaziani was born in Karachi, but relocated to Chicago along with his family.[3] He earned a BA in Sociology from the University of Michigan, during his junior year, he organized a "Queer Kiss In" event which sparked a legal dispute with the university.[4] He completed his PhD from Northwestern University in 2002.[5]

Career & research

In 2008, Ghaziani published his book The dividends of dissent : how conflict and culture work in lesbian and gay marches on Washington, he explained LGBT organizing in the United States for four national-level marches between 1979 and 2000.[6] For this book, he was the finalist for Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies

Ghaziani research that a new form of discrimination has emerged in the West, which he calls performative progressiveness,through his interviews, Ghaziani found that some straight people perceive themselves as "gay-blind [7] and expect LGBTQ+ people to conform to heteronormative values, which he views as aggressive assimilation rather than true acceptance.[8] In 2014, Ghaziani's book "There Goes the Gayborhood?" he explores the changing dynamics of LGBT enclaves in major cities, particularly in Chicago.[9] Through his research, Ghaziani discovered that the number of LGBT individuals living in traditional gay neighborhoods is decreasing,[10] and new clusters are emerging in other neighborhoods and suburbs.[11]

In 2019, he conducted a research about members of the LGBTQ community diversification heterosexual neighborhoods, which shows that only 12% of LGBTQ adults live in gaybourhoods, while 72% have never lived in one.[12] Ghaziani found that LGBTQ individuals are creating "cultural archipelagos" outside of traditional gaybourhoods, particularly among LGBTQ people of color.[13]

Selected publications
  • Ghaziani, Amin (May 2021). "People, protest and place: Advancing research on the emplacement of LGBTQ+ urban activisms". Urban Studies. 58 (7): 1529–1540. doi:10.1177/0042098020986064.
  • Mohr, John W.; Ghaziani, Amin (July 2014). "Problems and prospects of measurement in the study of culture". Theory and Society. 43 (3–4): 225–246. doi:10.1007/s11186-014-9227-2.
  • Ghaziani, Amin (July 2014). "Measuring urban sexual cultures". Theory and Society. 43 (3–4): 371–393. doi:10.1007/s11186-014-9225-4.
  • Ghaziani, Amin; Fine, Gary Alan (September 2008). "Infighting and Ideology: How Conflict Informs the Local Culture of the Chicago Dyke March". International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. 20 (1–4): 51–67. doi:10.1007/s10767-008-9032-x.
  • Ghaziani, Amin; Ventresca, Marc J. (December 2005). "Keywords and Cultural Change: Frame Analysis of Business Model Public Talk, 1975–2000". Sociological Forum. 20 (4): 523–559. doi:10.1007/s11206-005-9057-0.
  • Ghaziani, Amin (2015). "The Queer Metropolis". Handbook of the Sociology of Sexualities: 305–330. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-17341-2_18.
  • Ghaziani, Amin (May 2021). "People, protest and place: Advancing research on the emplacement of LGBTQ+ urban activisms". Urban Studies. 58 (7): 1529–1540. doi:10.1177/0042098020986064.

Bibliography
  • Ghaziani, Amin (2008). The dividends of dissent : how conflict and culture work in lesbian and gay marches on Washington. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226289960.
  • Ghaziani, Amin; Zuniga, Jose M; Whiteside, Alan; Bartlett, John G (2008). A decade of HAART : the development and global impact of highly active antiretroviral therapy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199225859.
  • Ghaziani, Amin (2008). The dividends of dissent : how conflict and culture work in lesbian and gay marches on Washington. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226289960.
  • Ghaziani, Amin (2014). There goes the gayborhood?. Princeton, NJ. ISBN 9780691168418.
  • Ghaziani, Amin (2017). Sex cultures. Cambridge, UK. ISBN 0745670407.
  • Ghaziani, Amin; Brim, Matt (2019). Imagining queer methods. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9781479808557.

References
  1. Lise, James De (14 June 2022). "Where the bars are". Chicago Reader.
  2. "Amin Ghaziani, Guest of the Director Summer Stay". NIAS. Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.
  3. Takeuchi, Craig (22 May 2019). "Trailblazers 2019: UBC professor Amin Ghaziani highlights the importance of queer urban spaces". The Georgia Straight. The Georgia Straight.
  4. Peck, Sara (7 October 2007). "Professor puts aside rocky past with NU to teach sociology". The Daily Northwestern.
  5. "Whither the Gaybourhood? Wall Stories | Peter Wall Institute". Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.
  6. Broad, K.L. "The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington (review)". Project Muse. Johns Hopkins University Press.
  7. "Pride May Be Bigger Than Ever But Acceptance Must Be More Than Skin Deep". British Vogue. 6 July 2018.
  8. Takeuchi, Craig (20 April 2018). "Trouble in the gaybourhood? UBC study finds straight discomfort with LGBT people underlying acceptance". The Georgia Straight.
  9. Podmollik, Mary Ellen. "'Gayborhoods' are changing, researcher finds". Chicago Tribune.
  10. Erickson, John (8 January 2015). "'There Goes the Gayborhood?' by Amin Ghaziani". Lambda Literary.
  11. O'Sullivan, Feargus (13 January 2016). "The 'gaytrification' effect: why gay neighbourhoods are being priced out". The Guardian.
  12. Wadhwani, Ashley (7 March 2019). "'Gaybourhoods' are expanding, not disappearing: UBC study - Victoria News". www.vicnews.com. Victoria News.
  13. James, Scott (21 June 2017). "There Goes the Gayborhood". The New York Times.
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