1st Edition

Trans Vitalities Mapping Ethnographies of Trans Social and Political Coalitions

By Elijah Adiv Edelman Copyright 2021
162 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book applies a framework of ‘trans vitalities’ through an ethnographically-anchored exploration of trans coalitional labor and activism in Washington, DC. Specifically, it considers how trans social justice work at the local level exemplifies why and how the notions of ‘trans community’ or ‘trans rights’ must be reconfigured. Trans vitalities, as a framework developed in this volume,... Read more

Introduction: Tracing entangled trans desire lines—vitalities and geometries of motion

Chapter 1 Trans studies and anthropologists studying ‘trans people’

Chapter 2 Washington, DC: depicting trans spatialities

Chapter 3 Mapping as method: articulations of bodies in place

Chapter 4 Mapping ideology and embodied practices: approaches to documenting and discussing lived experience

Chapter 5 Measuring vitalities

Chapter 6 Towards a generative politics of life: trans vitalities through spatialities of social justice

Biography

Elijah Adiv Edelman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rhode Island College, USA. Edelman’s work focuses around—and is anchored in—models of trans coalitional justice across the United States and Global South.