Overview
Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a transnational consideration of queer and trans activism in the US South and South Africa. Through ethnographic exploration of queer and trans activist work in both places, Jessica Scott paints a vibrant picture of what life is like in relation to a narrative that says that queer life is harder, if not impossible, in rural areas and on the African continent. The book asks questions like, what do activists in these places care about and how do stories about where they live get in the way of the life they envision for the queer and trans people for whom they advocate? Answers to these questions provide insight that only these activists have, into the complexity of locally based advocacy strategies in a globalized world.
Full Product Details
Author: Jessica A. Scott
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9781978836075
ISBN 10: 1978836074
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 14 June 2024
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""For those still wondering about the usefulness of queer studies, Jessica Scott provides a convincing response in this similarity-based, situated, and nuanced analysis of queer injunctions and resilience. In this book, strange bedfellows, South Africa and the South of the United States, transcend the taboos of comparative methodological correctness in economic analysis. Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a trailblazing work of economic freedom worth reading.""--S. N. Nyeck ""author of African(a) Queer Presence: Ethics and Politics of Negotiation"""
"""Jessica Scott has brilliantly pulled the rug out from under the feet of comparative studies. Empirically and theoretically sophisticated, this tour de force gracefully explodes the blueprint of metronormativity in queer research and activism in the United States and South Africa. By understanding the processes through which danger/inhospitability is amplified and practices invested in gerrymandering sexual geographies, this mature queer work of homemaking and placemaking announces the expiration date of geopolitical and metronormative exceptionalisms."" -- S. N. Nyeck * author of African(a) Queer Presence: Ethics and Politics of Negotiation * ""Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a timely and remarkable book that uncovers the relationship between queerness and land in the US South and South Africa. Deeply reflexive in her positionality and methodological embeddedness, Scott forces us to rethink rural spaces and the political activism that queer people engage in to make and shape their lands. A necessary book for all those invested in transnational queer activist struggles for land, home and belonging."" -- zethu Matebeni * coeditor of Beyond the Mountain: Queer Life in ""Africa’s Gay Capital"" *"
"""For those still wondering about the usefulness of queer studies, Jessica Scott provides a convincing response in this similarity-based, situated, and nuanced analysis of queer injunctions and resilience. In this book, strange bedfellows, South Africa and the South of the United States, transcend the taboos of comparative methodological correctness in economic analysis. Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a trailblazing work of economic freedom worth reading."" -- S. N. Nyeck * author of African(a) Queer Presence: Ethics and Politics of Negotiation * ""Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a timely and remarkable book that uncovers the relationship between queerness and land in the US South and South Africa. Deeply reflexive in her positionality and methodological embeddedness, Scott forces us to rethink rural spaces and the political activism that queer people engage in to make and shape their lands. A necessary book for all those invested in transnational queer activist struggles for land, home and belonging."" -- zethu Matebeni * coeditor of Beyond the Mountain: Queer Life in ""Africa’s Gay Capital"" *"
"""Jessica Scott has brilliantly pulled the rug out from under the feet of comparative studies. Empirically and theoretically sophisticated, this tour de force gracefully explodes the blueprint of metronormativity in queer research and activism in the United States and South Africa. By understanding the processes through which danger/inhospitability is amplified and practices invested in gerrymandering sexual geographies, this mature queer work of homemaking and placemaking announces the expiration date of geopolitical and metronormative exceptionalisms."" -- S. N. Nyeck, * author of African(a) Queer Presence: Ethics and Politics of Negotiation * ""Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a timely and remarkable book that uncovers the relationship between queerness and land in the US South and South Africa. Deeply reflexive in her positionality and methodological embeddedness, Scott forces us to rethink rural spaces and the political activism that queer people engage in to make and shape their lands. A necessary book for all those invested in transnational queer activist struggles for land, home and belonging."" -- Zethu Matebeni * co-editor of Beyond the Mountain: Queer Life in ""Africa’s Gay Capital"" *"
Author Information
JESSICA A. SCOTT is an associate professor of gender studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, West Virginia.
