Home Is Where Your Politics Are

Queer Activism in the U.S. South and South Africa

Jessica a. Scott (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

210 Seiten

2024
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3608-2 (ISBN)

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Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a transnational consideration of queer and trans activism in the US South and South Africa. Through ethnographic exploration of queer and trans activist work in both places, Jessica Scott paints a vibrant picture of what life is like in relation to a narrative that says that queer life is harder, if not impossible, in rural areas and on the African continent. The book asks questions like, what do activists in these places care about and how do stories about where they live get in the way of the life they envision for the queer and trans people for whom they advocate? Answers to these questions provide insight that only these activists have, into the complexity of locally based advocacy strategies in a globalized world.

JESSICA A. SCOTT is an associate professor of gender studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, West Virginia.

1 Introduction

2 Positionality and Method

3 Sites of Struggle

4 Welcome to Modernity

5 Metronormativity as Alienation

6 Queer Organizing in Out-of-the-Way Places

7 When Whiteness Gets in the Way

Appendix

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.05.2024
Zusatzinfo	4 tables
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	68 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-9788-3608-2 / 1978836082
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-3608-2 / 9781978836082
Zustand	Neuware