BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news338@ethnologie.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240405T153351 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240424T161500 SUMMARY:Book Roundtable: “Queer Objects to the Rescue: Intimacy and Citiz enship in Kenya” DESCRIPTION:Campaigns calling on police and citizens to purge their countri es of homosexuality have taken hold across the world. But the “homosexua l threat” they claim to be addressing is not always easy to identify. To make that threat visible\, leaders\, media\, and civil society groups hav e deployed certain objects as signifiers of queerness. In Kenya\, for exam ple\, bead necklaces\, plastics\, and even diapers have come to represent the danger posed by homosexual behavior to an essentially “virile” con struction of national masculinity. This roundtable will discuss George Pau l Meiu's new book Queer Objects to the Rescue\, a book which explores obje cts that have played an important and surprising role in both state-led an d popular attempts to rid Kenya of various imagined threats to intimate li fe. Meiu shows that their use in the political imaginary has been crucial to representing the homosexual body as a societal threat and as a target o f outrage\, violence\, and exclusion\, while also crystallizing anxieties over wider political and economic instability. To effectively understand a nd critique homophobia\, Meiu suggests\, we must take these objects seriou sly and recognize them as potential sources for new forms of citizenship\, intimacy\, resistance\, and belonging. X-ALT-DESC:

Campaigns calling on police and citizens to purge their count ries of homosexuality have taken hold across the world. But the “homosex ual threat” they claim to be addressing is not always easy to identify. To make that threat visible\, leaders\, media\, and civil society groups h ave deployed certain objects as signifiers of queerness. In Kenya\, for ex ample\, bead necklaces\, plastics\, and even diapers have come to represen t the danger posed by homosexual behavior to an essentially “virile” c onstruction of national masculinity. This roundtable will discuss George P aul Meiu's new book Queer Objects to the Rescue\, a book which ex plores objects that have played an important and surprising role in both s tate-led and popular attempts to rid Kenya of various imagined threats to intimate life. Meiu shows that their use in the political imaginary has be en crucial to representing the homosexual body as a societal threat and as a target of outrage\, violence\, and exclusion\, while also crystallizing anxieties over wider political and economic instability. To effectively u nderstand and critique homophobia\, Meiu suggests\, we must take these obj ects seriously and recognize them as potential sources for new forms of ci tizenship\, intimacy\, resistance\, and belonging.

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