Queer and Trans Life: Anthropological Futures

Against a background marked by endless ordinary crises, widespread precarity, and disrupting critical events, Queer and Trans Life charts queer investments for the future. It examines the challenges and pleasures in marginal everyday experiences of gender and sexual dissidence and the labours of care and endurance which sustain a sense of sociality and community, often against all odds. It presents queer and trans anthropological research from emerging European contexts. Though occasionally posited as non-belonging, the volume demonstrates that queer anthropology in Europe continues to thrive by providing textured ethnographic analysis and timely interventions in anthropological theory.

EJ Gonzalez-Polledo is Senior Lecturer and Head of Department, Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Gonzalez-Polledo’s research bring together social anthropology, Queer and Trans theory and the biosciences across many projects related to theorizing global biodata systems, social lives of biotechnology, politics and temporalities of bodies and material infrastructures.