Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures

Unsettling Queer Anthropology is a groundbreaking collection of essays that forefronts the brilliance of anthropological approaches to queer and trans life while challenging and transforming the field. The volume promotes a decolonial, abolitionist, Black feminist, transnational, postcolonial, Indigenous, and queer of color vision of queer anthropology, highlighting the contributions of established and emerging scholars.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 344 pages
Publication date: 17 April 2024
Publisher: Duke University Press

This groundbreaking collection of queer anthropology highlights the remarkable insights and transformative power of anthropological approaches to queer and trans lives. Comprising fourteen original essays written by renowned and emerging scholars, Unsettling Queer Anthropology offers a visionary perspective of queer anthropology rooted in decolonial, abolitionist, Black feminist, transnational, postcolonial, Indigenous, and queer of color methodologies. By critically examining both the innovative contributions of anthropology to queer studies and its colonialist legacies, contributors shed light on decades of groundbreaking work in the field. They challenge the boundaries of traditional anthropological methodologies, forms, and objects of study, paving the way for a critical, queer of color, decolonizing queer anthropology that disrupts anthropological normative epistemologies. In a time when there is a renewed urgency to address the white supremacist and settler colonial logics that continue to shape anthropology, this volume champions an anthropology that is accountable to the vibrant essence of queer and trans lives.

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

Weight: 445g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781478030386