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Queer Objects to the Rescue
- Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya
Af: George Paul Meiu
Engelsk Hardback
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Queer Objects to the Rescue
- Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya
Af: George Paul Meiu
Engelsk Hardback
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Examines forms of intimate citizenship that have emerged in relation to growing anti-homosexual violence in Kenya.   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, for example, bead necklaces, plastics, and even diapers have come to represent the danger posed by homosexual behavior to an essentially “virile” construction of national masculinity.   In Queer Objects tothe 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 various imagined threats to intimate life. 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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9780226830568
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022683056X
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Udg. Dato:
20 dec 2023
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
20 dec 2023
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