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Against a background marked by endless ordinary crises, widespread precarity, and disrupting critical events, Queer and Trans Life charts queer investments for the future. It examines the challenges and pleasures in marginal everyday experiences of gender and sexual dissidence and the labours of care and endurance which sustain a sense of sociality and community, often against all odds. It presents queer and trans anthropological research from emerging European contexts. Though occasionally posited as non-belonging, the volume demonstrates that queer anthropology in Europe continues to thrive by providing textured ethnographic analysis and timely interventions in anthropological theory.
“This is an excellent collection. There are several new areas – and especially regarding temporality, social reproduction and the making of political possibility – that the volume is opening up for queer anthropology.” • Tamar Shirinian, University of Tennesse
“There are several merits to this book. First, the chapters explore contexts across both the Global South and the Global North. The place-based studies here can inform readers’ understandings of the diversities within global queer and trans experiences, without relying solely on Anglocentric knowledge. Second, the volume lends itself to interdisciplinary scholarship, expanding an ‘anthropological’ book into geographic, sociological, and historic relevance. Finally, the attention given to future-making can equip geographers, as well as other scholars or activists, with new insights into anthropological time-making and time-keeping, shifting temporalities beyond ‘straight’ time and other chrononormativities.” · Gender, Place and Culture
Silvia Posocco is Professor of Social Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London.
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Queer and Trans Life
Silvia Posocco, EJ Gonzalez-Polledo, Lars Aaberg and Tunay Altay
Chapter 1. Asylum Holes: Spaces of Belonging and Difference
Pako Chalkidis
Chapter 2. The Violence Unseen: NGOs and Street-Level Dangers to Geis in Urban Tanzania
Laura Stark
Chapter 3. How Queer Is a Shared Flat? Beyond Straightjackets of Imagining Social Reproduction in the Greek Crisis
Andreas Streinzer
Chapter 4. Grief after AIDS: Stories from a Queer Archive
Fernando Lanza Zamanillo
Chapter 5. Becoming Accomplices: Queer Commoning, Molecular Transformations and the CLAQ Collective in Paris
Gianfranco Rebucini
Chapter 6. Of Nails, Varnish and Kisses: Queering Care through Camp Technologies in Spain
Josep Almudever Chanzá
Chapter 7. Learning to Play with Eyes: Cruising Queer and Trans Futures in Beautified Indian City
Rishav Thakur
Chapter 8. Look to Norway? Queer(y)ing the Potentials for Coalitional Solidarity in Building Climate-Just Futures
Elisabeth L. Engebretsen
Chapter 9. A Theory of Fragility: Queer Migrant Aesthetics Envisioning Post/Pandemic Futures
Yener Bayramoğlu and María do Mar Castro Varela
Chapter 10.Sympoietics: The Co-Mingling of Creative Agents
Rebekah Cupitt
Afterword: Once Upon a Queer Dream
Omar Kasmani
Index