Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies (eBook)

Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Studies

Babacar M'Baye, Besi Brillian Muhonja (Herausgeber)

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2022
256 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1748-2 (ISBN)

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In Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies: Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Studies, edited by Besi Brillian Muhonja and Babacar M'Baye, contributors explore the application of ubuntu/utu responsive perspectives and methods to critical studies. Through the lens of ubuntu/utu, the contributors to this Kenya-focused volume draw from the diverse fields of postcolonial studies, literary studies, history, anthropology, sociology, political science, environmental studies, media studies, and development studies, among others, to demonstrate the urgency and necessity of humane scholarship/research in gender and queer studies. By centering decolonial approaches and the human and humane, concentrating on subjects and identities that have been largely neglected in national and scholarly debates, the chapters are subversive, complex, and inclusive. They advance within Kenyan studies themes and elements of alternative, non-binary, variant, and non-heteronormative gender identities, sexualities, and voices, as well as approaches to doing knowledge. Underscoring the timeliness of such a text is evidence rendered in sections of the collection highlighting the significance of ubuntu/utu-centric scholarship. Challenging the erasure of the human in academic works, the chapters in this volume look inward and locate the voices and experiences of Kenyan peoples as the pivotal locus of analysis and epistemological derivation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.7.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora
• Co-Autor: Matthew K. Gichohi, Betty Wambui, Miriam Jerotich Kilimo, Anne Namatsi Lutomia, Babacar M'Baye, George Paul Meiu, Besi Brillian Muhonja, Dorothy Owino Rombo, Rachel Spronk, Joya Uraizee
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Anthropology • Communications Studies • Cultural Studies • gender in kenya • History • Human rights studies • Kenyan sexual minorities • Kenyan women • LGBTQIA+ in Kenya • Literature • masculinities and femininities • Media Studies • motherhood studies • Political Science • sexuality in Kenya • Sexuality in literature • Ubuntu • Ubuntu Studies • Utu
• ISBN-10: 1-6669-1748-6 / 1666917486
• ISBN-13: 978-1-6669-1748-2 / 9781666917482