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Affective Activism. The feeling of belonging in Transgender Communities
Applicant |
Nay Yv Elvin
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Number |
168679 |
Funding scheme |
Early Postdoc.Mobility
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Research institution |
London School of Economics and Political Science
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Institution of higher education |
Institution abroad - IACH |
Main discipline |
Sociology |
Start/End |
01.02.2017 - 31.07.2018 |
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All Disciplines (2)
Keywords (6)
Affect Theory; Gender and Queer Studies; Sociology of social movements; Political mobilisation and activism; Politics of affect; Transgender Studies
Lay Summary (German)
Lead
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Affektiver Aktivismus - Gefühle als grundlegende Kraft in politischen Gemeinschaften am Beispiel von Transgender
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Lay summary
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Das vorliegende Projekt untersucht politische Initiativen von und für Transgender/Trans*, d.h. Personen mit nicht den herrschenden Normen entsprechenden geschlechtlichen Lebensweisen. Insbesondere im vergangenen Jahrzehnt haben transgender Aktivist*innen vermehrt auf weitverbreitete und vielfältige Formen der Diskriminierung von Trans* aufmerksam gemacht. In der Folge wurden vielerorts innovative rechtliche Regelungen für die Anerkennung des selbstbestimmten Geschlechts eingeführt. Das Projekt untersucht Transgender Aktivismus als soziale Bewegung mit dem Ziel, neuartige Formen politischer De/Mobilisation und alternativer Arten und Weisen der Bildung von Gemeinschaften von Aktivist*innen zu erörtern. Der Fokus auf darin beinhaltete Affekte und Emotionen bildet der Ausgangspunkt, um bisherige Auffassungen, was soziale Bewegungen, Gemeinschaften und politische Intervention sind, neu auszuloten.
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Responsible applicant and co-applicants
Publications
Nay Yv (2018), Das ‘Kindeswohl’ im Rahmen von ‘Regenbogenfamilien’-Politiken, in
psychosozial, 41(151), 79-88.
NayYv E. (2017),
Feeling Family. Affektive Paradoxien der Normalisierung von ‘Regenbogenfamilien’, Zaglossus, Wien.
Nay Yv (2017), Affektiver Trans* Aktivismus – Community als Atmosphäre des Unbehagens, in Hoenes Josch (ed.), BIS Verlag, Oldenburg, 207-227.
Nay Yv, The Atmosphere of Trans* Politics in The Global North and West, in
Transgender Studies Quarterly TSQ, 5(1).
Scientific events
Active participation
Title |
Type of contribution |
Title of article or contribution |
Date |
Place |
Persons involved |
Affekte und Effekte. Perspektiven der Gender Studies
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Talk given at a conference
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Queerfeministische Politiken der Affekte
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23.07.2018
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Ludwig-Maximilian Universtität Muenchen, Germany
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Nay Yv Elvin;
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It's About Time
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Talk given at a conference
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Shadows of Time and The Yet to Come: Political Imaginaries of Human Rights
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04.07.2018
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Institute for Cultural Inquiry ICI Berlin, Germany
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Nay Yv Elvin;
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Vorlesungsreihe Pflegewissenschaften
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Individual talk
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Trans* Health
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27.03.2018
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BGS Bildungszentrum Gesundheit und Soziales, Chur, Switzerland
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Nay Yv Elvin;
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Ringvorlesung Politiken der Zugehörigkeit
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Individual talk
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Familiengefuhle – Die affektiv strukturierte Normalisierung von ‚Regenbogenfami-lien‘
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24.01.2018
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Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
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Nay Yv Elvin;
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Social Science History Association SSHA Conference
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Talk given at a conference
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Politics of Affect in Trans* Communities
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02.11.2017
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McGill University Montreal, Quebec Canada, Canada
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Nay Yv Elvin;
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Unerzählte LGBTQ Geschichten. Ein Workshop
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Talk given at a conference
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Temporalitäten von Trans*. Von historischen ‹Anfängen› und politischen ‹Fortschritten›
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27.10.2017
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Universität Bern, Switzerland
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Nay Yv Elvin;
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LSE speaker series
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Individual talk
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The Affective Structure of Global Trans* Politics
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11.10.2017
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London School of Economics and Political Science LSE, Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Nay Yv Elvin;
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Tagung der Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung
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Talk given at a conference
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The Structure of Affect in Trans* Activism
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28.09.2017
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Universität zu Köln, Germany
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Nay Yv Elvin;
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Tagung Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung
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Talk given at a conference
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Affektive Paradoxien queerer Epistemologie – Heteronormativität affekttheoretisch gewendet
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28.09.2017
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Universität zu Köln, Germany
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Nay Yv Elvin;
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Cultures of Difference
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Talk given at a conference
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Heteronormativity Beyond Anti-Normativity
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09.06.2017
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University of Cambrige, Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Nay Yv Elvin;
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Vorlesungsreihe Pflegewissenschaften
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Individual talk
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Trans* Health
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22.03.2017
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BGS Bildungszentrum Gesundheit und Soziales, Chur, Switzerland
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Nay Yv Elvin;
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Self-organised
It's About Time
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04.07.2018
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Institute for Cultural Inquiry ICI Berlin, Germany
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Body Politics and Political Order: Technologies of Subjugation and Subversion
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02.11.2017
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McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Canada, Canada
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Knowledge transfer events
Active participation
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Type of contribution |
Date |
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Persons involved |
Feeling Family
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Talk
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01.06.2018
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Linke Buchtage, Berlin, Germany
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Nay Yv Elvin;
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Feeling Family – Politiken der Normalisierung von ‚Regenbogenfamilien’
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Talk
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27.05.2018
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Sonntagsclub e.V., Berlin, Germany
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Nay Yv Elvin;
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Geschlecht, Orientierung, Identität
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Talk
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12.02.2018
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Network, Gaybasel, habs queer basel, Switzerland
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Nay Yv Elvin;
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Geschlecht als Fluidität?
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Performances, exhibitions (e.g. for education institutions)
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13.12.2017
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Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
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Nay Yv Elvin;
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Communication with the public
Communication |
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Media |
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Year |
Awards
Brigitte-Schnegg-Preis für Geschlechterforschung, Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung SGGF
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2017
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Associated projects
Number |
Title |
Start |
Funding scheme |
177757
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Affective Activism. The feeling of belonging in transgender communities |
01.08.2018 |
Advanced Postdoc.Mobility |
186643
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Affective Activism. The feeling of belonging in transgender communities |
01.06.2020 |
Return CH Postdoc.Mobility |
Abstract
This project examines the recent extensive political activism of transgender people-those expressing gender varying from conforming norms-in a transnational context. Particularly in the last decade, the political activism of transgender people has raised awareness of the widespread discrimination that gender-variant people face. As a result, innovative legislation on gender recognition has widely been adopted. From a Social Science perspective, this turn in regulating non-conforming gender representations and identities is remarkable. This project will analyse how this social movement grew large and strong so rapidly, how the assembling of activists is to be understood, and how existing Social Science understandings of ‘political mobilisation’ and ‘political action’ need to be reconsidered.Using an ethnographical methodology, this project analyses the narratives and practices of activists in transnational transgender organisations. This study suggests, firstly, that shared feelings of a bodily and social stigmatisation provide the basis for emotionally felt atmospheres in transgender activism. It asks how they forge a sense of belonging of transgender activists to their communities. Secondly, this project scrutinises how these affective communities are constituted on the notion of ‘transgender’-a term intertwined with the legal, medical and political regulation of gender-variant expressions that secures citizenship for some transgender people at the expense of others, while reifying forms of racism, xenophobia, and class privilege. Thirdly, this project examines the fissures in the sense of belonging to these communities forged by such exclusions. Subsequently, the project argues that the complex feelings of belonging to transgender communities require a renewal of the sociological notions of community and the political as such.In sum, the project explores the newly established edge of affects and political activism in the recent realm of transgender lives. Thereby, it challenges existing conceptions of political community and social movement and asks how political de/mobilisation and activism are to be encompassed by Social Science today.
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