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... of Australia. It does to examine how critical theories of (anti)normativity, plasticity, and vibrancy make, or not, a space for the difference of Nonlife existents in liberal geontopower. It begins with Georges Canguilhem’s critique of the mid-twentieth-century definition within biomedical sciences and normal...

...Normativity and Nationhood ...

... This chapter introduces the concept of “primitive normativity,” a narrative espoused by colonial settlers and officials. The discourse of primitive normativity posited that Kenyan Africans were too “primitive” to practice certain kinds of “deviant” sexuality, including rape, homosexuality...

... Chapter 1 outlines the intellectual history that allowed the narrative of primitive normativity to develop. In particular, it shows how two fields, anthropology and sexology, both revised their notions of the “primitive” in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This reevaluation set...

... to colonize a more “primitive” African race but also maintaining that it was white women, not Indians, who were morally and sexually depraved. As both Indians and white settlers framed their demands within the language of trusteeship, Africans were racialized by proxy as sexually normative, and therefore...

... class. Drawing on Black Consciousness (BC), it examines how blackness has shifted from the apartheid period to the postapartheid period, where blackness now manifests as a nativist formation that intersects with (hetero)normativity to create a class of racialized outsiders. Employing BC as theory...

...Social Norms and Professionalism ...

...The Creation of Normativities as a Biopolitical Project ...

...Destabilizing the Normative<subtitle>The Heterogeneous Self</subtitle> This chapter unravels Piro’s 160 Kafis to show how a former Muslim prostitute, and then a novitiate in a marginally Sikh Gulabdasi establishment, fashioned a self by writing “autobiographical” verses. The transgression...

...Normative Images and Shifting Spaces ...