Defiant Bodies

Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-9788-3036-3
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 64 g

Reihe: Critical Caribbean Studies

In the Anglophone Caribbean, international queer human rights activists strategically located within and outside of the region have dominated many of the interventions seeking to address issues affecting people across the region; a trend that is premised on an idea that the Caribbean is extremely homophobic and transphobic, resulting in violence and death for people who defy dominant sexual and gender boundaries. Human rights activists continue to utilize international financial and political resources to influence these interventions and the region’s engagement on issues of homophobia, transphobia, discrimination, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This focus, however, elides the deeply complex nature of queerness across different spaces and places, and fails to fully account for the nuances of queer sexual and gender politics and community making across the Caribbean. Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean problematizes the neocolonial and homoimperial nature of queer human rights activism in in four Anglophone Caribbean nations -- Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago -- and thinks critically about the limits of human rights as a tool for seeking queer liberation. It also offers critical insight into the ways that queer people negotiate, resist, and disrupt homophobia, transphobia, and discrimination by mobilizing “on the ground” and creating transgressive communities within the region.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Attai, Nikoli A

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Queer Liberation in the Anglophone Caribbean?
Chapter 1: Liberating the Queer Caribbean
Chapter 2: On the Ground: Challenging Sexual Politics in the Region
Chapter 3: Between the Walls: Ruination and New Sexual Worlds in Barbados
Chapter 4: Queens, Kings and Kinship Networks: Queer Culture and Trans(gressive)
Community-making
Chapter 5: Rumshops, Nightlife and the Radical Praxis of Internal Exile
Coda: A Defiant Politics of Hope in the Queer Caribbean
Acknowledgements
References
Index