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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"hijras"”.
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"I am Not a Hijra": Transgender Women Claiming Citizenship in South India
… an 18-month ethnographic study conducted with hijras (gender non-conforming people assigned male at birth), newly emerging transwomen, and Dosti, a large NGO in Bangalore, India, this dissertation argues that transgender women claim citizenship by drawing distinct borders between themselves and …
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Disasters and the “Other Gender”: Exploring the Experiences of the Hijra Community in Disasters in India
… were conducted in Puri city, mainly including hijras, alongside a few government officials, NGO staff and academic professionals. Participant observation and use of secondary data sources were also done. The findings highlight that disasters are an extension of the everyday lives of hijras. …
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Troubling Suicide: Law, Medicine and Hijra Suicides in India
… forms of governmentality, I demonstrate that hijras continue to exert their personhood through expressing their experiences with suicide, which makes the more general point that sociolegal studies of medical-legal assemblages should not be reduced to studies of successful governmentalization.