ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book describes how the police violently dissolved an lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) manifestation in the streets of Moscow. It argues that the production of communities and their boundaries does not solely rely on subjectivation through language but on regulating what people see and hear through producing specific arrangements of visibility. The book suggests that although states seek to produce coherent, dichotomous and linear accounts of belonging, they are able to accommodate incoherence and multiple truths. It also suggests that politics of belonging should be conceptualized as involving struggles of visibility and invisibility. The book also argues that political projects of belonging involve the production of particular arrangements of visibility that render some narratives, images and subjects visible and others invisible, and make available specific interpretative schemes and emotional dispositions, affecting how that which appears is seen and heard.
