Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa Bodies Over Borders and Borders Over Bodies /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Camminga, B. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Global Queer Politics,
• Θέματα: Africa-Politics and government.; Identity politics.; Queer theory.; Gender identity.; African Politics.; Politics and Gender.; Queer Theory.; Gender and Sexuality.

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 te...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Trans Travels and Trans Trajectories
• 2. The Echo of the 'Knowing Subject': Trans Methodologies in South Africa
• 3. The Emergence of a Discourse of Transgender in South Africa
• 4. The Politics and Limits of Transgender in South Africa
• 5. Shifting Borderlands and Becoming a Gender Refugee
• 6. Of Categories and Queues and Structural Realities
• 7. Finding Community, Finding Rights: The Common Sense Paradox
• 8. "The Journey does not end. It's a life time journey".