Queer and Trans Life

Silvia Posocco is Professor of Social Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London.

“This is an excellent collection. There are several new areas – and especially regarding temporality, social reproduction and the making of political possibility – that the volume is opening up for queer anthropology.” • Tamar Shirinian, University of Tennesse“There are several merits to this book. First, the chapters explore contexts across both the Global South and the Global North. The place-based studies here can inform readers’ understandings of the diversities within global queer and trans experiences, without relying solely on Anglocentric knowledge. Second, the volume lends itself to interdisciplinary scholarship, expanding an ‘anthropological’ book into geographic, sociological, and historic relevance. Finally, the attention given to future-making can equip geographers, as well as other scholars or activists, with new insights into anthropological time-making and time-keeping, shifting temporalities beyond ‘straight’ time and other chrononormativities.” · Gender, Place and Culture

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Queer and Trans LifeSilvia Posocco, EJ Gonzalez-Polledo, Lars Aaberg and Tunay AltayChapter 1. Asylum Holes: Spaces of Belonging and DifferencePako ChalkidisChapter 2. The Violence Unseen: NGOs and Street-Level Dangers to Geis in Urban TanzaniaLaura StarkChapter 3. How Queer Is a Shared Flat? Beyond Straightjackets of Imagining Social Reproduction in the Greek CrisisAndreas StreinzerChapter 4. Grief after AIDS: Stories from a Queer ArchiveFernando Lanza ZamanilloChapter 5. Becoming Accomplices: Queer Commoning, Molecular Transformations and the CLAQ Collective in ParisGianfranco RebuciniChapter 6. Of Nails, Varnish and Kisses: Queering Care through Camp Technologies in SpainJosep Almudever ChanzáChapter 7. Learning to Play with Eyes: Cruising Queer and Trans Futures in Beautified Indian CityRishav ThakurChapter 8. Look to Norway? Queer(y)ing the Potentials for Coalitional Solidarity in Building Climate-Just FuturesElisabeth L. EngebretsenChapter 9. A Theory of Fragility: Queer Migrant Aesthetics Envisioning Post/Pandemic FuturesYener Bayramoğlu and María do Mar Castro VarelaChapter 10.Sympoietics: The Co-Mingling of Creative AgentsRebekah CupittAfterword: Once Upon a Queer DreamOmar KasmaniIndex