Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies: Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Studies

In Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies: Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Studies, contributors apply ubuntu/utu responsive perspectives and methods to critical studies, highlighting the urgency and necessity of humane scholarship in gender and queer studies. The chapters are subversive, complex, and inclusive, advancing alternative, non-binary, variant, and non-heteronormative gender identities, sexualities, and voices.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 29 July 2022
Publisher: Lexington Books

In Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies: Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Studies, edited by Besi Brillian Muhonja and Babacar MBaye, contributors delve into the application of ubuntu/utu responsive perspectives and methods to critical studies. Through the lens of ubuntu/utu, the contributors to this Kenya-focused volume draw from a diverse array of fields, including postcolonial studies, literary studies, history, anthropology, sociology, political science, environmental studies, media studies, and development studies, among others, to showcase the urgency and necessity of humane scholarship/research in gender and queer studies. By centering decolonial approaches and the human and humane, the chapters in this volume focus on subjects and identities that have been largely neglected in national and scholarly debates, thus presenting a subversive, complex, and inclusive narrative. They advance within Kenyan studies themes and elements of alternative, non-binary, variant, and non-heteronormative gender identities, sexualities, and voices, as well as approaches to doing knowledge.

Underscoring the timeliness of such a text is evidence provided in sections of the collection highlighting the significance of ubuntu/utu-centric scholarship. Challenging the erasure of the human in academic works, the chapters in this volume look inward and locate the voices and experiences of Kenyan peoples as the pivotal locus of analysis and epistemological derivation.

Weight: 567g
Dimension: 225 x 163 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666917475