George Paul Meiu: Queer Objects to the Rescue

Cover: 9780226830582 | Queer Objects to the Rescue | Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya | Meiu

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"Campaigns calling on police and citizens to purge their countries of homosexuality have taken hold across the world. But the "homosexual threat" they claim to be addressing is not always easy to identify. To make that threat visible, leaders, media, and civil society groups have deployed certain objects as signifiers of queerness. In Kenya, bead necklaces, plastics, and diapers more generally have come to represent the danger posed by homosexual behavior to an essentially "virile" construction of national masculinity. In Queer Objects to the Rescue, George Paul Meiu explores objects that have played an important and surprising role in both state-led and popular attempts to rid Kenya of homosexuality. Meiu shows that their use in the political imaginary has been crucial to representing the homosexual body as a societal threat and as a target of outrage, violence, and exclusion, while also crystallizing anxieties over wider political and economic instability. To effectively understand and critique homophobia, Meiu suggests, we must take these objects seriously, and recognize them as potential sources for new forms of citizenship, intimacy, resistance, and belonging"--

Über den Autor

George Paul Meiu is professor of anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is the author of Ethno-erotic Economies, published by The University of Chicago Press.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780226830582
ISBN-10:	0226830586
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Meiu, George Paul
Hersteller:	The University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	151 x 230 x 11 mm
Von/Mit:	George Paul Meiu
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.12.2023
Gewicht:	0,356 kg

Artikel-ID: 126849588

Über den Autor

George Paul Meiu is professor of anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is the author of Ethno-erotic Economies, published by The University of Chicago Press.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780226830582
ISBN-10:	0226830586
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Meiu, George Paul
Hersteller:	The University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	151 x 230 x 11 mm
Von/Mit:	George Paul Meiu
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.12.2023
Gewicht:	0,356 kg