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Queer objects to the rescue : intimacy and citizenship in Kenya
- Title
- Queer objects to the rescue : intimacy and citizenship in Kenya / George Paul Meiu.
- Author
- Meiu, George Paul
- Publication
- Chicago, IL ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2023]
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Details
- Description
- 230 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Campaigns calling on police and citizens to purge their countries of homosexuality have taken hold across the world. But the "homosexual threat" they claim to be addressing is not always easy to identify. To make that threat visible, leaders, media, and civil society groups have deployed certain objects as signifiers of queerness. In Kenya, bead necklaces, plastics, and diapers more generally have come to represent the danger posed by homosexual behavior to an essentially "virile" construction of national masculinity. In Queer Objects to the Rescue, George Paul Meiu explores objects that have played an important and surprising role in both state-led and popular attempts to rid Kenya of homosexuality. Meiu shows that their use in the political imaginary has been crucial to representing the homosexual body as a societal threat and as a target of outrage, violence, and exclusion, while also crystallizing anxieties over wider political and economic instability. To effectively understand and critique homophobia, Meiu suggests, we must take these objects seriously, and recognize them as potential sources for new forms of citizenship, intimacy, resistance, and belonging"--
- Alternative Title
- Intimacy and citizenship in Kenya
- Subject
- 2000-2099
- Gay people > Kenya > Social conditions > 21st century
- Homophobia > Kenya
- Homosexuality > Kenya
- Masculinity > Kenya
- Sex > Social aspects > Kenya
- Sex > Political aspects > Kenya
- Material culture > Social aspects > Kenya
- Citizenship > Kenya
- Citizenship
- Homophobia
- Homosexuality
- Masculinity
- Material culture > Social aspects
- Sex > Political aspects
- Gender expression
- LGBTQ+ people
- LGBTQ+ phobia
- Masculinities
- Monosexuality
- Sexual orientation
- Sex > Social aspects
- Sex
- Material culture
- Social conditions
- Kenya
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Queer objects : introduction -- Intimate rescue : grammars, logics, subjects, scenes -- "Male-power" : virility, vitality, and phallic rescue -- Bead necklaces : encompassment and the geometrics of citizenship -- Plastics : moral pollution and the matter of belonging -- Diapers : intimate exposures and the underlayers of citizenship -- The homosexual body : gayism and the ambiguous objects of terror -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- ReCAP 24-2476
- ISBN
- 9780226830568
- 022683056X
- 9780226830582
- 0226830586
- 9780226830575 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023015918
- OCLC
- 1373015765
- Author
- Meiu, George Paul, author.
- Title
- Queer objects to the rescue : intimacy and citizenship in Kenya / George Paul Meiu.
- Publisher
- Chicago, IL ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Research Call Number
- ReCAP 24-2476