Trans Vitalities - Mapping Ethnographies of Trans Social and Political Coalitions

This book applies a framework of 'trans vitalities' through an ethnographically-anchored exploration of trans coalitional labor and activism in Washington, D.C. It considers how trans social justice work at the local level and exemplifies why and how the notions of 'trans community' or 'trans rights' must be reconfigured.

List of contents

Introduction: Tracing entangled trans desire lines—vitalities and geometries of motion
Chapter 1 Trans studies and anthropologists studying ‘trans people’
Chapter 2 Washington, DC: depicting trans spatialities
Chapter 3 Mapping as method: articulations of bodies in place
Chapter 4 Mapping ideology and embodied practices: approaches to documenting and discussing lived experience
Chapter 5 Measuring vitalities
Chapter 6 Towards a generative politics of life: trans vitalities through spatialities of social justice

About the author

Elijah Adiv Edelman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rhode Island College, USA. Edelman’s work focuses around—and is anchored in—models of trans coalitional justice across the United States and Global South.

Summary

This book applies a framework of ‘trans vitalities’ through an ethnographically-anchored exploration of trans coalitional labor and activism in Washington, D.C. It considers how trans social justice work at the local level and exemplifies why and how the notions of ‘trans community’ or ‘trans rights’ must be reconfigured.

Product details

• Authors: Elijah Adiv Edelman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9780815356516
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-5651-6
• No. of pages: 148
• Series: Theorizing Ethnography
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Humanities, Regional Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies, gender groups, Urban communities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality