Klein, Thamar 
ORCID: 0000-0002-4815-5031
(2009).
Technologies of Trans* Citizen Configuration: The Case of South Africa.
Working Paper.
Abstract
This paper explores the relation between biomedicine and governance with regard to the (self)configuration of trans* citizens through technologies. Keeping the diversity of South African trans* citizens in mind, I will address the following questions: How are trans* citizens defined and configured as gendered/sexed citizens – and by whom or through which technologies? How do trans* citizens experiment with technologies? More specifically what are new uses for technologies that were originally invented/intended for a different cause? Rather than seeing trans* citizens solely as passive subjects of governmental legal and health care interventions I will as well have a look at them as active agents in the re-shaping of their identities. The present study explores their local and global agency within the realms of supranational citizenship, citizen science and medical tourism.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
| Creators: | Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-506925 |
| Series Name: | Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers |
| Volume: | 119 |
| Number of Pages: | 19 |
| Date: | 2009 |
| ISSN: | 1615-4568 |
| Language: | English |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Human Sciences |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Human Sciences > Department Erziehungs- und Sozialwissenschaften > Institut für vergleichende Bildungsforschung und Sozialwissenschaften |
| Subjects: | Social sciences Customs, etiquette, folklore Medical sciences Medicine |
| Refereed: | No |
| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/50692 |
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