Universität zu Köln

Klein, Thamar ORCID: 0000-0002-4815-5031 (2009). Technologies of Trans* Citizen Configuration: The Case of South Africa. Working Paper.

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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:	Preprints, Working Papers or Reports (Working Paper)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Klein, Thamar tklein11@uni-koeln.de orcid.org/0000-0002-4815-5031 UNSPECIFIED
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