Queer and Trans African Mobilities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Queer and Trans African Mobilities write by B Camminga. This book was released on 2022-06-16. Queer and Trans African Mobilities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent years have seen increased scholarly and media interest in the cross-border movements of LGBT persons, particularly those seeking protection in the Global North . While this has helped focus attention on the plight of individuals fleeing homophobic or transphobic persecution, it has also reinvigorated racist tropes about the Global South. In the case of Africa, the expansion of anti-LGBT laws and the prevalence of hetero-patriarchal discourses are regularly cited as evidence of an inescapable savagery. The figure of the LGBT refugee – often portrayed as helplessly awaiting rescue – reinforces colonial notions about the continent and its peoples. Queer and Trans African Mobilities draws on diverse case studies from the length and breadth of Africa, offering the first in-depth investigation of LGBT migration on and from the continent. The collection provides new insights into the drivers and impacts of displacement linked to sexual orientation or gender identity and challenges notions about why LGBT Africans move, where they are going and what they experience along the way.
Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa
Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa write by B Camminga. This book was released on 2018-11-01. Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book tracks the conceptual journeying of the term ‘transgender’ from the Global North—where it originated—along with the physical embodied journeying of transgender asylum seekers from countries within Africa to South Africa and considers the interrelationships between the two. The term 'transgender' transforms as it travels, taking on meaning in relation to bodies, national homes, institutional frameworks and imaginaries. This study centres on the experiences and narratives of people that can be usefully termed 'gender refugees', gathered through a series of life story interviews. It is the argument of this book that the departures, border crossings, arrivals and perceptions of South Africa for gender refugees have been both enabled and constrained by the contested meanings and politics of this emergence of transgender. This book explores, through these narratives, the radical constitutional-legal possibilities for 'transgender' in South Africa, the dissonances between the possibilities of constitutional law, and the pervasive politics/logic of binary ‘sex/gender’ within South African society. In doing so, this book enriches the emergent field of Transgender Studies and challenges some of the current dominant theoretical and political perceptions of 'transgender'. It offers complex narratives from the African continent regarding sex, gender, sexuality and notions of home concerning particular geo-politically situated bodies.
Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions
Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions write by Randy P. Conner. This book was released on 2004. Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A world that may not have been exactly secret, but has remained relatively unexamined by religious scholars and queer theorists. Examines the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender involvement in African-inspired traditions, such as Santeria, Vodou, Candomble, Macumba, Palo Mayombe, Ifa Umbanda and Abakua.
Gender and Mobility in Africa
Gender and Mobility in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and Mobility in Africa write by Kalpana Hiralal. This book was released on 2018-07-20. Gender and Mobility in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines gender and mobility in Africa though the central themes of borders, bodies and identity. It explores perceptions and engagements around ‘borders’; the ways in which ‘bodies’ and women’s bodies in particular, shape and are affected by mobility, and the making and reproduction of actual and perceived ‘boundaries’; in relation to gender norms and gendered identify. Over fourteen original chapters it makes revealing contributions to the field of migration and gender studies. Combining historical and contemporary perspectives on mobility in Africa, this project contextualises migration within a broad historical framework, creating a conceptual and narrative framework that resists post-colonial boundaries of thought on the subject matter. This multidisciplinary work uses divergent methodologies including ethnography, archival data collection, life histories and narratives and multi-country survey level data and engages with a range of conceptual frameworks to examine the complex forms and outcomes of mobility on the continent today. Contributions include a range of case studies from across the continent, which relate either conceptually or methodologically to the central question of gender identity and relations within migratory frameworks in Africa. This book will appeal to researchers and scholars of politics, history, anthropology, sociology and international relations.
African Transnational Mobility in China
African Transnational Mobility in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Transnational Mobility in China write by Roberto Castillo. This book was released on 2020-12-29. African Transnational Mobility in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa. The author develops an original argument and new theoretical insights about the significance of the African presence in Guangzhou, and presents an invaluable case study for understanding particular modes of transnational mobility. More broadly, it challenges forms of (re)presenting and producing knowledge about subjects on the move; and it transforms existing theorisations and critical understandings of mobility and its shaping power. Through an ethnographic approach, the book brings us closer to a number of practices, features and objects that, while characterising the lives of Africans in Guangzhou, are also evidence of the interplay between individual aspirations, and the structural constraints embedded in contemporary regimes of transnational mobility. Raising critical questions about ways of (un)belonging in the precarious settings of neoliberal modernity and the future of African mobilities, this book will be of interest to scholars of transnational, African and Chinese Studies.
