Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghanavolume 2 Otu Kwame Edwin
Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghanavolume 2 Otu Kwame Edwin A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Drawing on the Ghanaian…
Specifikacia Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghanavolume 2 Otu Kwame Edwin
Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghanavolume 2 Otu Kwame Edwin
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Drawing on the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Gyekye's notion of "amphibious personhood," Kwame Edwin Otu argues that sasso embody and articulate amphibious subjectivity in their self-making of an identity that moves beyond the homogenizing impulses of western categories of gender and sexuality. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate men--known in local parlance as sasso--residing in coastal Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital.
Weaving together personal interactions with sasso, participant observation, autoethnography, archival sources, Such subjectivity simultaneously unsettles claims purported by the Christian heteronationalist state and LGBT+ human rights organizations that Ghana is predominantly heterosexual or homophobic.