Liveable lives: a transnational roundtable on liveability from/in India and Ireland

In this chapter we explore liveability as a key method of engaging queer geographies. Speaking across Ireland and India, we focus on equalities legislations and marriage equality petitions to look at imaginations of liveability in juridico-political spaces. In doing so, we both use and refuse a purely critical approach based on homonormative theorisations emerging from North America. We instead deploy a transnational framing that refuses comparisons to focus on understanding and developing theoretical insights. In doing so, we show how the liveabilities of LGBTQIA+ identifying lives is a central consideration for geographies that seek to move beyond normativity, but also refuse absolutist takes on rights-based legislation.