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Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Queer and Trans Life
Silvia Posocco, EJ Gonzalez-Polledo, Lars Aaberg and Tunay Altay

Chapter 1. Asylum Holes: Spaces of Belonging and Difference
Pako Chalkidis

Chapter 2. The Violence Unseen: NGOs and Street-Level Dangers to Geis in Urban Tanzania
Laura Stark

Chapter 3. How Queer Is a Shared Flat? Beyond Straightjackets of Imagining Social Reproduction in the Greek Crisis
Andreas Streinzer

Chapter 4. Grief after AIDS: Stories from a Queer Archive
Fernando Lanza Zamanillo

Chapter 5. Becoming Accomplices: Queer Commoning, Molecular Transformations and the CLAQ Collective in Paris
Gianfranco Rebucini

Chapter 6. Of Nails, Varnish and Kisses: Queering Care through Camp Technologies in Spain
Josep Almudever Chanzá

Chapter 7. Learning to Play with Eyes: Cruising Queer and Trans Futures in Beautified Indian City
Rishav Thakur

Chapter 8. Look to Norway? Queer(y)ing the Potentials for Coalitional Solidarity in Building Climate-Just Futures
Elisabeth L. Engebretsen

Chapter 9. A Theory of Fragility: Queer Migrant Aesthetics Envisioning Post/Pandemic Futures
Yener Bayramoğlu and María do Mar Castro Varela

Chapter 10.Sympoietics: The Co-Mingling of Creative Agents
Rebekah Cupitt

Afterword: Once Upon a Queer Dream
Omar Kasmani

Index

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 Hb Published (February 2025)

eISBN 978-1-80539-861-5 eBook

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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

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 Professor of Social Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London.

EJ Gonzalez-Polledo is Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Lars Aaberg is Associate Professor at Jindal Global Law School at O.P. Jindal Global University in Sonipat, India.

Tunay Altay is a postdoctoral researcher in sociology and gender studies at Humboldt University of Berlin.

Series: Volume 53, EASA Series

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Area:

LC: HQ76.3.E85 .Q94 2025

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC032000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Gender Studies; SOC026040 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Sociology/Social Theory