Community Building From the Bottoms Up: Participatory / Co-Creative Research with Berlin’s Queer Nightlife Collectives

Garcia-Mispireta, Luis Manuel

Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta

Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta is an Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies at the University of Birmingham (UK). His research focuses on urban electronic dance music scenes, with a particular focus on affect, intimacy, stranger-sociability, embodiment, sexuality, creative industries and musical migration. He is a member and resident DJ of Berlin’s queer intersectional rave collective, ‘Room 4 Resistance’. Garcia-Mispireta is currently developing a project on “grassroots” activism and queer nightlife collectives; he also has a new monograph out, entitled Together Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor (Duke University Press, 2023).

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 9June 27, 2024<June 27, 2024

Community Building From the Bottoms Up: Participatory / Co-Creative Research with Berlin’s Queer Nightlife Collectives

Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta

Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta reports on his experiences organising a “community consultation” with queer nightlife collectives in Berlin and reflects on his first attempts to integrate participatory and co-creative research methods into the narrow timeframes of focused ethnography.