Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies

Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Studies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Besi Brillian Muhonja, Babacar M’Baye, Babacar M'Baye

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In Gender and Sexuality in Kenyan Societies: Centering the Human and the Humane in Critical Studies, edited by Besi Brillian Muhonja and Babacar M’Baye, contributors explore 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 the diverse fields of postcolonial studies, literary studies, history, anthropology, sociology, political science, environmental studies, media studies, and development studies, among others, to demonstrate the urgency and necessity of humane scholarship/research in gender and queer studies. By centering decolonial approaches and the human and humane, concentrating on subjects and identities that have been largely neglected in national and scholarly debates, the chapters are subversive, complex, and inclusive. 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 rendered 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-07-07
Mått163 x 225 x 26 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666917475

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Introduction: Toward Humane Scholarship in Gender and SexualitiesBesi Brillian Muhonja1.Feminist Biographies - Telling Our StoriesBetty Wambui2.“Beach-boy Elders” and “Young Big-men”: Subverting the Temporalities of Aging in Kenya’s Ethno-erotic EconomiesGeorge Paul Meiu3.Redefining the Female Body: The Legislative Process against Female Circumcision in KenyaMiriam Jerotich Kilimo4.Still at a Crossroad: Theories in Activism and Fight for Rights of the LGBTI Community in KenyaDorothy Owino Rombo and Anne Namatsi Lutomia5.Going on a Real Date: Afro-bubblegum and Female Same Sex Desire in Eastern African LiteratureJoya Uraizee6.Dimensions of Motherhood in an African World Sense: Ritual and Power among AvalogooliBesi Brillian Muhonja7.When Adult Status Trumps Gender: Recentering Tradition in PoliticsMatthew K. Gichohi8.Twenty Years After: Gender and Sexuality among Middle-Aged Professionals in NairobiRachel SpronkConclusion: Utu/ubuntu: Centering the Human and the Humane in C

This welcome and timely ground-breaking text centers holistic (utu), human and humane critical thought and life flows beyond historical impasses. By offering powerful epistemological departures, the chapters open a gateway to much-needed reconceptualizing of the inter-related and intersectional presents and futures, and provide fresh approaches to living, thought, and scholarship. They move knowledge and methodologies forward in exciting, new, and refreshing ways.