Transgender in the Post-Yugoslav Space

Lives, Activisms, Culture
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4473-6761-1
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 162 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

Written by an interdisciplinary collective of authors, this powerful book documents the largely unknown histories and politics of trans lives, activisms, and culture across the post-Yugoslav states.

The volume sheds light on a diversity of gender embodiments and explores how they have navigated the murky waters of war, capitalism, and transphobia while forging a niche for themselves within the regional and transnational LGBTQ movements.

By unleashing the knowledge concentrated in trans lives, this book not only resists trans erasures in Eastern Europe, but also underscores the potential for survival, self-transformation, and engagement in politically challenging circumstances.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bilic, Bojan

Nord, Iwo

Milanovic, Aleksa

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brankovic, Sladana

Dimitrov, Slavcho

Milan Djuric, Agatha

Gramc, Martin

Hadziristic, Tea

Brkovic, Carna

Ulicevic, Jovan

Vidic, Jelena

Limani, Lura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: The Yellow Brick Road of trans queer survival in Yugoslavia and after - Agatha Milan Ðuric

Introduction: In post-Yugoslav trans worlds - Bojan Bilic, Iwo Nord, and Aleksa Milanovic

Part 1: Lives

1. Transgender lives in North Macedonia: citizenship, violence, and networks of support - Slavcho Dimitrov

2. The resilience of trans existence through solidarity in Montenegro: (non)pathologising narratives of transgender lives - Jovan Ulicevic and Carna Brkovic

3. Transgender and non-binary persons, mental health, and gender binarism in Serbia - Jelena Vidic and Bojan Bilic

Part 2: Activisms

4. From survival to activism: tracing trans history in Kosovo from the 1970s onwards - Lura Limani

5. Tortuous paths towards trans futures: the trans movement in Slovenia - Martin Gramc

6. (Post)socialist gender troubles: transphobia in Serbian leftist activism - Bojan Bilic

Part 3: Culture

7. Trans artivism in the post-Yugoslav space: resistance and inclusion strategies in action - Aleksa Milanovic

8. ‘The truth is what is in the body’: an interview with Aleks Zain - Sladana Brankovic

9. Queering sevdah: gender-nonconformity in the traditional music of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Tea Hadžiristic

Über Autor(innen)

Bojan Bilic is Lise Meitner Fellow at the University of Vienna and Adjunct Professor at the University of Bologna.

Iwo Nord is Lecturer at DIS Study Abroad in Scandinavia and Södertörn University.

Aleksa Milanovic is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications at Singidunum University.