This field-defining volume of queer anthropology foregrounds both the brilliance of anthropological approaches to queer and trans life and the ways queer critique can reorient and transform anthropology. Consisting of fourteen original essays by both distinguished and new voices, Unsettling Queer Anthropology advances a vision of queer anthropology grounded in decolonial, abolitionist, Black feminist, transnational, postcolonial, Indigenous, and queer of color approaches. Critically assessing both anthropology’s queer innovations and its colonialist legacies, contributors highlight decades of work in queer anthropology; challenge the boundaries of anthropology’s traditional methodologies, forms, and objects of study; and forge a critical, queer of color, decolonizing queer anthropology that unsettles anthropology’s normative epistemologies. At a moment of revitalized calls to reckon with the white supremacist and settler colonial logics that continue to shape anthropology, this volume advances an anthropology accountable to the vitality of queer and trans life.
Contributors. Jafari Sinclair Allen, Tom Boellstorff, Erin L. Durban, Elijah Adiv Edelman, Lyndon K. Gill, K. Marshall Green, Brian A. Horton, Nikki Lane, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Shaka McGlotten, Scott L. Morgensen, Kwame Otu, Juno Salazar Parreñas, Lucinda Ramberg, Sima Shakhsari, Savannah Shange, Anne Spice, Margot Weiss, Ara Wilson
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- Contents
- Preface: you’reinvited: a playlist for errant ethnographers / Savannah Shange
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Queer Anthropology Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures / Margot Weiss
- Part I: Foundations: Queer Anthropology’s Contested Genealogies
- 1. The Anthropology of “What Is Utterly Precious”: Black Feminist Habits of Mind and the Object (and Ends) of Anthropology / Jafari Sinclaire Allen
- 2. Queer Theories from Somewhere: Situated Knowledges and Other Queer Empiricisms / Margot Weiss
- 3. Intimate Methods: Reflections on Racial and Colonial Legacies within Sexual Social Science / Scott L. Morgensen
- Part II: Reorientations: Queering the Anthropological Canon
- 4. Kinship and Kinmaking Otherwise / Lucinda Ramberg
- 5. Pronoun Trouble: Notes on Radical Gender Inclusion in English / Tom Boellstorff
- 6. Stylization in the Flesh: Queer Anthropology and Performance / Brian A. Horton
- 7. Worldly Power and Local Alterity: Transnational Queer Anthropology / Ara Wilson
- 8. Queer States: Geopolitics and Queer Anthropology / Sima Shakhsari
- Part III: Departures: Reworlding Queer Anthropology
- 9. Black Queer Anthropology Roundtable: Speculations on Activating Ethnographic Practice in and for Community / Shaka McGlotten and Lyndon Gill, Marshall Green, Nikki Lane, and Kwame Otu
- 10. The Subject of Trans Lives and Vitalities: Queer and Trans Anthropological Object-Making / Elijah Adiv Edelman
- 11. Doing It Together: A Queer Case for Cripping Ethnography / Erin L. Durban
- 12. When Our Tulips Speak Together: More-Than-Human Queer Natures / Juno Salazar Parreñas
- 13. Queer (Re)generations: Disrupting Apocalypse Time / Anne Spice
- 14. The Queer Endotic: Experiments on the Infra-ordinary (Or seeds for a worlding) / Martin F. Manalansan IV
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