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Queer and Trans Life: Anthropological Futures

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Queer and Trans Life

Anthropological Futures

Edited by Silvia Posocco, EJ Gonzalez-Polledo, Lars Aaberg, Tunay Altay

Afterword by Omar Kasmani

272 pages, 6 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80539-858-5 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (February 2025)

eISBN 978-1-80539-861-5 eBook Not Yet Published


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“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

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Against a background marked by endless ordinary crises, widespread precarity, and disrupting critical events, Queer and Trans Life charts queer investments for the future. It examines the challenges and pleasures in marginal everyday experiences of gender and sexual dissidence and the labours of care and endurance which sustain a sense of sociality and community, often against all odds. It presents queer and trans anthropological research from emerging European contexts. Though occasionally posited as non-belonging, the volume demonstrates that queer anthropology in Europe continues to thrive by providing textured ethnographic analysis and timely interventions in anthropological theory.

Silvia Posocco is a social anthropologist with interdisciplinary research interests in gender and sexuality studies and violence, conflict and genocide studies. Posocco’s research has focused on many topics including insurgent movements in Guatemala and forensic archives, bioinformation and data worlds.

EJ Gonzalez-Polledo is Senior Lecturer and Head of Department, Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Gonzalez-Polledo’s research bring together social anthropology, Queer and Trans theory and the biosciences across many projects related to theorizing global biodata systems, social lives of biotechnology, politics and temporalities of bodies and material infrastructures.

Lars Aaberg is Associate Professor at Jindal Global Law School at O.P. Jindal Global University in Sonipat, India. He recently held a fellowship at the M. S. Merian-R. Tagore International Centre for Advanced Studies: ‘Metamorphoses of the Political’ (ICAS:MP) in New Delhi.

Tunay Altay is a queer Turkish researcher based in Berlin. He is the co-editor of Queer Feminist Critiques: Resisting Right-Wing Politics in the Middle East and Europe (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).

Subject: Political and Economic AnthropologyGender Studies and Sexuality


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