Queering Knowledge: Analytics, Devices and Investments after Marilyn Strathern

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements Queering knowledge: An introduction History and context for the project Out-contextualisation, perspective and the productive life of concepts Queer anthropology queering knowledge Merographic connections, queering effects Notes References 1. Wild gender Gender after the fact After gender Coda Notes References 2. The (im)possibilities of transgression, or, reflections on the awkward relation between Strathern and queer politics Strathern+Butler, via Haraway: Assembling, disassembling, reassembling cyborgs Which discipline? Awkward politics, militant politics, anthro-politics Notes References 3. Gay Back Alley Tolstoys and inheritance perspectives: Re-imagining kinship in queer margins Introduction: gay care, theory, society The Four Gay Back Alley Tolstoys in Helsinki Queer(y)ing gay kinship in Finland Gay relationality in Kallio, Helsinki Kin charts as a queer device Challenging the queer/gay metropolis Queer(y)ing the inheritance institution Notes References 4. Partial perversity and perverse partiality in postsocialist Hungary Disidentified dividuals (Dis)connecting dissident-ification Coda Conclusion: transversal transvestite transitions Notes References 5. Properties, substance, queer effects: Ethnographic perspective and HIV in India Introduction: perspectives Knowledge and context Knowledge effects Substance, properties and data HIV prevention, ethnographic perspective and queer effects Notes References 6. Prefigured “defection” in Korea What is prefiguration? Queering/prefiguring the nation A passage through the Cold War’s crosscut The image as the symptom of the border Enunciating “form of power” The head of the defector Notes References 7. Postplurality: An ethnographic tableau Signatures, documents, archives Genocide kinning, public secrets, family resemblances Postplurality, queeering scale Notes References Films 8. On feminist critique and how the ontological turn is queering anthropology The new feminist anthropology Queer positionalities Queering kinship analysis On the breakup of the ground: queer ontologists and the question of politics and critique Final remarks Notes References 9. Conceptuality in relation References 10. How exactly are we related? Where is everywhere? This is a fridge magnet What is social change? References Index