Jan Simon Hutta

Identities and Citizenship under Construction: Historicising the ‘T’ in LGBT Anti-Violence Politics in Brazil

What’s in the media is this: repression against homosexuals — very plainly nowadays, right? In the past, it used to be something more covered, something more … occult. Nowadays not. Nowadays, people openly say: ‘I don’t like gays!’ People openly pass by and slap someone in the face, or do this or that. Which I think, erm … in the favela I think it’s stronger, right? Because there are no laws that protect the individual. They exist — but in here they don’t work! If I’m subject to a homophobic attack and get a lamp in the face, that’s how it will have to be, done and over! I’ll have to … I can’t go to the reference centre and make a denunciation. I can’t, because I live here. I have family here. Gilmar1

Book review: Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

globally constituted through bodily differences’, the editors dish up a strongly Deleuzian and materialist theory of race with dashes of feminist corporeality (p. 7). A few of the essays in the collection fit this call, but most do not, and several essays afford little more than a cursory citation in naming the problem of race. Nkazanin Naraghi and Paul Kingsbury use Lacanian theory and Žižek to get at race through multicultural consumption in West Vancouver, while Mimi Sheller and Rick Dolphijn each take up very different concepts from Deleuze to look at racialized food. Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel and Deirdre Tedmanson use Foucault and Agamben to examine Australian federal initiatives targeting alcoholism in indigenous communities as a form of racial combat in terms of coercion, enforcement and control, whereas Aaron Bobrow-Strain takes up Foucault’s biopolitics to examine the industrialization of bread in North America and associated normative discourses of hygiene, purity, and cleanliness. Hilda Kurtz uses Goldberg’s theory of the racial state to elaborate a concept of nutrition deserts as an alternate framing of food deserts, pointing out the analytical richness of segregation that many studies of food deserts fail to engage. While each contribution exemplifies powerful research on race and food, the reader is left to piece together for herself how the various theoretical strands speak to one another, if at all. It seems tempting to ask that each contribution elaborate a theory of race, as the editors have done in the introduction, but fulfilling such a desire would make for a book series, not an edited collection. And the multiplicity of frameworks for addressing the ‘vexed concept of race’ should not really come as a surprise (p. 2). Whereas critical geographies of race around the millennium seemed to consolidate productively around whiteness, privilege, identity, and segregation, approaches to race today seem to run off in any number of theoretical directions. The essays collected in Geographies of Race and Food reflect this lack of consensus about race which, as Julie Guthman suggests in the prologue, might well be seen as both a necessary and wholesome diversity.

Mezzadra, Sandro ; Neilson, Brett: Border as method, or, the multiplication of labor. Durham, 2013

globally constituted through bodily differences’, the editors dish up a strongly Deleuzian and materialist theory of race with dashes of feminist corporeality (p. 7). A few of the essays in the collection fit this call, but most do not, and several essays afford little more than a cursory citation in naming the problem of race. Nkazanin Naraghi and Paul Kingsbury use Lacanian theory and Žižek to get at race through multicultural consumption in West Vancouver, while Mimi Sheller and Rick Dolphijn each take up very different concepts from Deleuze to look at racialized food. Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel and Deirdre Tedmanson use Foucault and Agamben to examine Australian federal initiatives targeting alcoholism in indigenous communities as a form of racial combat in terms of coercion, enforcement and control, whereas Aaron Bobrow-Strain takes up Foucault’s biopolitics to examine the industrialization of bread in North America and associated normative discourses of hygiene, purity, and cleanliness. Hilda Kurtz uses Goldberg’s theory of the racial state to elaborate a concept of nutrition deserts as an alternate framing of food deserts, pointing out the analytical richness of segregation that many studies of food deserts fail to engage. While each contribution exemplifies powerful research on race and food, the reader is left to piece together for herself how the various theoretical strands speak to one another, if at all. It seems tempting to ask that each contribution elaborate a theory of race, as the editors have done in the introduction, but fulfilling such a desire would make for a book series, not an edited collection. And the multiplicity of frameworks for addressing the ‘vexed concept of race’ should not really come as a surprise (p. 2). Whereas critical geographies of race around the millennium seemed to consolidate productively around whiteness, privilege, identity, and segregation, approaches to race today seem to run off in any number of theoretical directions. The essays collected in Geographies of Race and Food reflect this lack of consensus about race which, as Julie Guthman suggests in the prologue, might well be seen as both a necessary and wholesome diversity.

Trans Networking in the European Vortex: Between Advocacy and Grassroots Politics

Since the 2000s, a plethora of local, regional, and transnational trans movements, networks, and organizations have emerged in, and across, different parts of the world (Balzer and Hutta 2012). European trans activism formed an integral part in these wider processes, which is exemplified by the founding of the Transgender Europe (TGEU) network in 2005. Currently counting 74 member organizations in 35 countries in Europe and Central Asia, as well as more than 120 individual members from Europe and beyond,1 TGEU is the largest regional network of its kind and viewed as the principal voice of trans activism at the European scale. Its expansion is the result of transnational grassroots networking, facilitated by — and increasingly oriented toward — the European arena of institutional politics and legislation ensuing from the so-called political integration through the European Union (EU) and Council of Europe (CoE).

Beyond the Right to the Governmentalized City: Queer Citizenship in a Brazilian Context of Peripheralization

This essay considers peripheralization as a process that produces, and is constituted by, heterogeneous regimes of government that historically emerge from intersecting power relations. My argument seeks to introduce questions of governmentality and intersectionality into debates of peripheralization, which have tended to neglect the role transforming social relations play regarding spatial dependencies.