Trans Vitalities

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.

Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

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