Trans Topia

Author : Howard Chiang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231549172

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Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific by Howard Chiang Pdf

As a broad category of identity, “transgender” has given life to a vibrant field of academic research since the 1990s. Yet the Western origins of the field have tended to limit its cross-cultural scope. Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to transphobia, transtopia challenges a minoritarian view of transgender experience and makes room for the variability of transness on a historical continuum. Against the backdrop of the Sinophone Pacific, Chiang argues that the concept of transgender identity must be rethought beyond a purely Western frame. At the same time, he challenges China-centrism in the study of East Asian gender and sexual configurations. Chiang brings Sinophone studies to bear on trans theory to deconstruct the ways in which sexual normativity and Chinese imperialism have been produced through one another. Grounded in an eclectic range of sources—from the archives of sexology to press reports of intersexuality, films about castration, and records of social activism—this book reorients anti-transphobic inquiry at the crossroads of area studies, medical humanities, and queer theory. Timely and provocative, Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific highlights the urgency of interdisciplinary knowledge in debates over the promise and future of human diversity.

Author : [TRANS-] journal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0368789012

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[TRANS-] Topia by [TRANS-] journal Pdf

The fifth edition of [TRANS-] Journal considers topia. Topia, derived from the Greek word topos, means place. For some time, places have been the subject of architecture and theory, including the concepts on genius loci, critical regionalism, heterotopias, supermodernity, and the generic city. As such, places may freight phenomenological ideas about a region, visionary social provocations, or dystopic economic or political fictions. As a utopia, place is a space of exception and critique, imagined as an alternative to real or perceived persecution or opportunity. As an e-topia, place is reconfigured by and through efficient technological systems and interfaces. Places have numerous meanings and operate at different scales, such as areas of land, or imagined communities. Taken together, places inspire or caution us against conditions of culture, society, environment, political structures, economic regimes, and emergent technologies. Places can be real or imagined, defined or diffused, lasting or ephemeral.

Author : Owl Fisher,Fox Fisher
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781787756304

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Trans Survival Workbook by Owl Fisher,Fox Fisher Pdf

Explore what it means to be you with your own personal Trans Survival Workbook! Combining essential tips and practical advice with quizzes, activities and reflective exercises, this interactive journal allows you to document your transition, engage with your feelings and improve your mental health. With coming-out letters, colouring pages, fun games and inspiring stories, it is the perfect toolkit for discovering who you are and what your gender identity, gender expression and pronouns mean to you. Written by two of the world's leading trans activists, and a follow-up to the bestselling Trans Teen Survival Guide, this empowering and unique book will be with you every step of the way.

Author : Jin Young Choi,Joerg Rieger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725257160

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Faith, Class, and Labor by Jin Young Choi,Joerg Rieger Pdf

Despite the fact that 99 percent of us work for a living and although work shapes us to the core, class and labor are topics that are underrepresented in the work of scholars of religion, theology, and the Bible. With this volume, an international group of scholars and activists from nine different countries is bringing issues of religion, class, and labor back into conversation. Historians and theologians investigate how new images of God and the world emerge, and what difference they can make. Biblical critics develop new takes on ancient texts that lead to the reversal of readings that had been seemingly stable, settled, and taken for granted. Activists and organizers identify neglected sources of power and energy returning in new force and point to transformations happening. Asking how labor and religion mutually shape each other and how the agency of working people operates in their lives, the contributors also employ intersectional approaches that engage race, gender, sexuality, and colonialism. This volume presents transdisciplinary, transtextual, transactional, transnational, and transgressive work in progress, much needed in our time.

Author : William M. Denevan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429713491

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Hispanic Lands And Peoples by William M. Denevan Pdf

This anthology focuses on James J. Parsons' work in Latin America and in Spain, with the resulting neglect of his publications on other regions, particularly California. It includes the integration of economy and ecology. .

Author : Sophie Grace Chappell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509561513

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Trans Figured by Sophie Grace Chappell Pdf

‘I was four and three-quarters when I asked my mother if, from now on, I could please go to school as a girl instead of as a boy ...’ In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Sophie Grace Chappell combines personal memoir, philosophical reflection, open letters, science fiction writing, and poetry to help us all figure out transgender. What is it really like to be transgender? How can we as a society do better to accept the reality of trans lives and to welcome and include trans adults, trans children, and trans families? How can trans people thrive in a cisgendered world? For too long now, clouds of myth, misinformation, alarmism, and wrong-headed ideology have masked the reality of trans people’s lives. By answering questions like these, this book blows away the clouds and gives us the truth instead. Rich, informative, and deeply moving, Trans Figured will be widely read and celebrated for years to come.

Author : Eric A. Stanley,Nat Smith
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849352345

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Captive Genders by Eric A. Stanley,Nat Smith Pdf

"Captive Genders is an exciting assemblage of writings—analyses, manifestos, stories, interviews—that traverse the complicated entanglements of surveillance, policing, imprisonment, and the production of gender normativity. Focusing discerningly on the encounter of transpersons with the apparatuses that constitute the prison industrial complex, the contributors to this volume create new frameworks and new vocabularies that surely will have a transformative impact on the theories and practices of twenty-first century abolition." —Angela Y. Davis, professor emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz "The contributors to Captive Genders brilliantly shatter the assumption that the antidote to danger is human sacrifice. In other words, for these thinkers: where life is precious life is precious." —Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California "Captive Genders is at once a scathing and necessary analysis of the prison industrial complex and a history of queer resistance to state tyranny. By analyzing the root causes of anti-queer and anti-trans violence, this book exposes the brutality of state control over queer/trans bodies inside and outside prison walls, and proposes an analytical framework for undoing not just the prison system, but its mechanisms of surveillance, dehumanization and containment. —Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Captive Genders was the first book of its kind. It remains the touchstone for studies of trans and gender-queer people in prison. It has been revamped to appeal to recent broadened interest. With a new Foreword by CeCe McDonald and essay by Chelsea Manning.

Author : Karen Bennett,Rita Queiroz de Barros
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351391986

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Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation by Karen Bennett,Rita Queiroz de Barros Pdf

This volume problematizes the concept and practice of translation in an interconnected world in which English, despite its hegemonic status, can no longer be considered a coherent unified entity but rather a mobile resource subject to various kinds of hybridization. Drawing upon recent work in the domains of translation studies, literary studies and (socio-)linguistics, it explores the centrality of translation as both a trope for the analysis of contemporary transcultural dynamics and as a concrete communication practice in the globalized world. The chapters range across many geographic realities and genres (including fiction, memoir, animated film and hip-hop), and deal with subjects as varied as self-translation, translational ethics and language change. As a whole, the book makes an important contribution to our understanding of how meanings are generated and relayed in a context of super-diversity, in which traditional understandings of language and translation can no longer be sustained.

Author : Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerović
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000861877

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Live Digital Theatre by Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerović Pdf

Live Digital Theatre explores the experiences of Interdisciplinary Performing Arts practitioners working on digital performance and in particular live digital theatre. Collaborating with world-leading practitioners – Kolectiv Theatre (UK), Teatro Os Satyros (Brazil), and The Red Curtain International (India)- this study investigates the ways to bring live digital performance into theatre training and performance making. The idea of Interdisciplinary Performative Pedagogies is placed within the context of the exploration of live digital theatre and is used to understand creative practices and how one can learn from these practices. The book presents a pedagogical approach to contemporary practices in digital performance; from interdisciplinary live performance using digital technology, to live Zoom theatre, YouTube, mixed media recorded and live performance. The book also combines a series of case studies and pedagogical practices on live digital performance and intermedial theatre. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in performing arts, digital arts, media, and gaming.

Author : Roberto Manzocco
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030049584

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Transhumanism - Engineering the Human Condition by Roberto Manzocco Pdf

This book is designed to offer a comprehensive high-level introduction to transhumanism, an international political and cultural movement that aims to produce a “paradigm shift” in our ethical and political understanding of human evolution. Transhumanist thinkers want the human species to take the course of evolution into its own hands, using advanced technologies currently under development – such as robotics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cognitive neurosciences, and nanotechnology – to overcome our present physical and mental limitations, improve our intelligence beyond the current maximum achievable level, acquire skills that are currently the preserve of other species, abolish involuntary aging and death, and ultimately achieve a post-human level of existence. The book covers transhumanism from a historical, philosophical, and scientific viewpoint, tracing its cultural roots, discussing the main philosophical, epistemological, and ethical issues, and reviewing the state of the art in scientific research on the topics of most interest to transhumanists. The writing style is clear and accessible for the general reader, but the book will also appeal to graduate and undergraduate students.

Author : Julie L. Nagoshi,Craig T. Nagoshi,Stephan/ie Brzuzy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461489665

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Gender and Sexual Identity by Julie L. Nagoshi,Craig T. Nagoshi,Stephan/ie Brzuzy Pdf

The first comprehensive presentation of an explicitly transgender theory. This theory goes beyond feminist and queer theory by incorporating the idea of fluid embodiment and lived experience in conceptualizing gender and sexual identity. Beyond developing a formulation of transgender theory that incorporates the socially constructed, embodied, and self-constructed aspects of identity in the narrative of lived experiences, the authors discuss the implications of this “trans-identity theory” for theory, research, and practice.

Author : Rebecca A. Carte
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816531424

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Capturing the Landscape of New Spain by Rebecca A. Carte Pdf

The son of an encomendero, Baltasar Obregón was twenty years old when he joined the 1564 expedition led by the first governor of Nueva Vizcaya, Francisco de Ibarra. The purpose of the expedition was to establish mining settlements in the borderlands of New Spain and to suppress indigenous rebellions in the region. Although Obregón’s role in the Ibarra expedition was that of soldier-explorer, and despite his lacking an advanced education, he would go on to compose Historia de los descubrimientos de Nueva España twenty years later, expanding his narrative to include the years before and after his own firsthand experiences with Ibarra. Obregón depicts the storied landscape of the northern borderlands with vivid imagery, fusing setting and situation, constructing a new reality of what was, is, and should be, and presenting it as truth. In Capturing the Landscape of New Spain, Rebecca A. Carte explains how landscape performs a primary role in Obregón’s retelling, emerging at times as protagonist and others as antagonist. Carte argues that Obregón’s textualization offers one of the first renderings of the region through the Occidental cultural lens, offering insight into Spanish cultural perceptions of landscape during a period of important social and political shifts. By examining mapping and landscape discourse, Carte shows how history and geography, past and present, people and land, come together to fashion the landscape of northern New Spain.

Author : Frank Karslake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Books
ISBN : MINN:31951001224899I

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Book-auction Records by Frank Karslake Pdf

Author : Hongwei Bao,Diyi Mergenthaler,Jamie J. Zhao
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350333529

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Contemporary Queer Chinese Art by Hongwei Bao,Diyi Mergenthaler,Jamie J. Zhao Pdf

Contemporary Queer Chinese Art is the first English-language academic book that explores the intersections of queer culture and contemporary Chinese art from the mid-1980s to the present. This book brings together 15 internationally renowned artists, activists, curators and scholars to explore heterogeneous expressions of Chineseness and queerness in contemporary art from China and Chinese diasporas in Asia, Europe and North America. Examining contemporary visual art, performance and activism, this book offers a rich archive of queer Chinese artistic expressions. It provides valuable insights into the status quo and intersectional struggles of Chinese artists who identify themselves as queer and who have associated their work with queer positionalities and perspectives. By sharing personal experiences, art expressions and critical insights about what it means to be queer and Chinese in a transnational context, the book reveals multiple forms and potentialities of queer politics in the domains of art and activism.

Author : Julian Jason Haladyn
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780228020837

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The Pause by Julian Jason Haladyn Pdf

When COVID-19 spread across the globe, people experienced protection measures such as social distancing, self-isolation, and self-quarantine as a kind of shutting down or putting on hold of life. Many referred to this experience as a pause. Calling attention to the long history of grappling with pausing in writing on plagues and pandemics, Julian Haladyn explores the pause in its social, political, and personal manifestations over the extended pandemic. The schism between the virus and its prohibitions on human engagement with the world produced a crisis, Haladyn argues, in which, for an extended time, it was impossible to imagine a future. The Pause is a cultural inquiry into a moment when human life around the globe seemed to halt, as well as the social symptoms that defined it. The Pause captures the experience of being inside the pandemic, even as that experience continues to unfold. It regards our current situation not for what it may become in the future, but rather as a moment of mass uncertainty and existential hesitation.