Queer Southern Africa

Temporalities, Bodies, and Belonging

AvLwando Majikijela,Gibson Ncube

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

This book asks what it means to be queer in Southern Africa today, bringing together bold and original scholarship to examine the messy, creative, and often precarious realities of queer life across the region. Moving beyond narrow framings of visibility and legal recognition, the volume centres queer embodiment, lived experience, and the everyday negotiations of space, time, intimacy, and belonging in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.The volume foregrounds the diverse ways queer subjects navigate shifting political, cultural, spiritual, and economic landscapes in Southern Africa. Drawing on queer theory, decolonial thought, feminist critique, and indigenous knowledge systems, the book uncovers the complex relationships between queerness, temporality, kinship, spirituality, labour, mobility, and survival. It explores issues as varied as ancestral callings, queer kinship structures, spiritual practices, digital intimacies, the politics of public sex, economic precarity, migration, and communal care, demonstrating how queer communities across the region continue to remake social worlds despite ongoing structural violence, exclusion, and moral regulation. Rather than treating Southern Africa as a homogeneous space, the volume remains attentive to the uneven histories, languages, and political conditions that shape queer experiences across the region. In doing so, it offers an important intervention into African queer studies by foregrounding relationality, affect, embodiment, and world-making as central to understanding contemporary queer life.This book will be of interest to researchers and students in gender and sexuality studies, queer studies, African studies, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, and political science.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-26
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Contemporary South Africa
Antal sidor:254
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041197461

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Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
HBTQ+ inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Lwando Majikijela is a lecturer in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of South Africa. He is a PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research spans gender and sexuality studies, queer, Black subalternities, and visual culture.Gibson Ncube is a senior lecturer in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Stellenbosch University. His research lies at the intersection of literary, gender, queer, and cultural studies. He works across Anglophone and Francophone Africa.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword Introduction: New perspectives on queer embodiment and belonging in South(ern) Africa 1. Black queer joy: An epistemological lens for African queer studies 2. The muted emancipation: Translating Black queer ‘soft landings’ in contemporary South Africa 3. Queer intimacy, space, and black masculinities in South African mining townships 4. ‘We are not all lesbians in the same way’: Exploring queer intersectionalities and theoretical frameworks 5. The body as a site of making gender non-conforming identities at Sol Plaatje University 6. ‘Gays and straights just don’t get it!’: ‘Managing’ biphobia and stigma in Johannesburg (South Africa) amongst bisexual women 7. The intersection of queer precarity, resilience, and mental health in Gaborone, Botswana 8. Carrying home across borders: Queer guilt, family, and the limits of liberation in Chido Muchemwa’s Who Will Bury You? 9. ‘Oh, the enemy thought he had me. But Jesus said you are mine’: The violence of deliverance ministry 10. Kapana: Performance as method in African queer cinematic cultures 11. What I call ‘recitation’ on sex: Public spaces as safe zones to ‘recite’ queer sex 12. Queer sankofarration: (Re)imagining/(Re)visioning queer histories in Desire Marea’s acrylic on canvas series ‘The Baddies of Isandlwana’ 13. Afterword: Doing queer studies in Southern Africa: A provocation on content and form