Kroppslig längtan: en intervjustudie om hur icke-binära kön materialiseras
2019 (Swedish)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
Through the concept of longing, this study aims to explore non-binary embodiment and becoming, with a focus on examining how non-binary embodiment makes and is made possible. The study takes it departure in Karen Barads theories and concepts such as intra-action, and it is also from Barad the concept of longing is inspired. Longing is understood as the drive that is and makes possible life and the livable life. Longing is not reserved for humans but is rather tangent a posthuman understanding of matters agency, where matter is understood as an active agent in its own creation. The study is based on a combination of go-along interviews and semistructured interviews with six non-binary people.The study can be understood as an effort to make possible new or other ways to understand sex/gender, embodiment and becoming. Ways that is not based on a framework of understanding that in its foundational structure reduces the non-binary as something unintelligible. In the study longing is used as a means to create order and direction in the analysis of the participants stories. Longing has the benefit of being in constant movement and change, as such it contributes as a way of understanding that do not limit the participants stories of sex/gender, embodiment and becoming.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2019. , p. 64
Keywords [en]
non-binary, transgender, intra-action, becoming, materiality, embodiment
Keywords [sv]
icke-binär, transperson, intra-aktion, tillblivelse, materialitet, kroppslighet
National Category
Gender Studies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-39065OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-39065DiVA, id: diva2:1356050
Subject / course
Gender Studies
Uppsok
Humanities, Theology
Supervisors
Examiners
2019-10-012019-09-302019-10-01Bibliographically approved