Eddie Ombagi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 176843 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Eddie Ombagi |
| NOMBRES | Eddie |
| APELLIDO | Ombagi |
| FIRMA | OMBAGI E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1971-2414 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 5 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Nairobi Queer Visibilities/Invisibilities and Forms of Queer Ambivalence
Queer Fragmentation as Method
The everyday life of queer individuals, their experiences and scopes are lived in relation to the various fragments that structure sociability. Queer lives are first and foremost fragmented and fragmentary in their everyday survival practices and tactics. If we understand fragmentation and its various components as part and parcel of the everyday — that the vicissitudes of the transient and liminal everyday come to us as fragments, what then does…
Stories we tell
Queer expressions in Kenya are caught up in various discourses of law, religion, desire, nationhood, fantasy, language, aspirations and cultural codes. As a result of these interplays that rub against each other, contradictions about queer expressions become evident. To contextualise queer expressions in Kenya, and to usefully tease out these contradictions, an understanding of Kenya’s lived realities that cohere around these discourses can be ex…
Nairobi is a shot of whisky
Kenya has become a site of, and frame for, the contradictions of queer livability on one hand and queer visibility on the other. Despite virulent attacks by the political and religious section of the country against queer sexual expression, there is a visible queer existence that is predicated on embodied lived experiences and spatial subjectivity. In this paper, I investigate selected city-spaces in Nairobi – nightclub, tavern and cruising spot …
Notes on the Nation
In this special issue of Agenda which calls for an engagement on the question of xenophobia, national belonging and the techniques of difference within the context of South Africa, I position and locate these discourses with and through a reading of the works of Sara Ahmed.Sara Ahmed is a renowned scholar working in the intersections of feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory and postcolonial theory. Ahmed has authored several books t…
Nairobi is a shot of whisky
Kenya has become a site of, and frame for, the contradictions of queer livability on one hand and queer visibility on the other. Despite virulent attacks by the political and religious section of the country against queer sexual expression, there is a visible queer existence that is predicated on embodied lived experiences and spatial subjectivity. In this paper, I investigate selected city-spaces in Nairobi – nightclub, tavern and cruising spot …
Stories we tell
Queer expressions in Kenya are caught up in various discourses of law, religion, desire, nationhood, fantasy, language, aspirations and cultural codes. As a result of these interplays that rub against each other, contradictions about queer expressions become evident. To contextualise queer expressions in Kenya, and to usefully tease out these contradictions, an understanding of Kenya’s lived realities that cohere around these discourses can be ex…
Notes on the Nation
In this special issue of Agenda which calls for an engagement on the question of xenophobia, national belonging and the techniques of difference within the context of South Africa, I position and locate these discourses with and through a reading of the works of Sara Ahmed.Sara Ahmed is a renowned scholar working in the intersections of feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory and postcolonial theory. Ahmed has authored several books t…
Nairobi is a shot of whisky
Kenya has become a site of, and frame for, the contradictions of queer livability on one hand and queer visibility on the other. Despite virulent attacks by the political and religious section of the country against queer sexual expression, there is a visible queer existence that is predicated on embodied lived experiences and spatial subjectivity. In this paper, I investigate selected city-spaces in Nairobi – nightclub, tavern and cruising spot …
Stories we tell
Queer expressions in Kenya are caught up in various discourses of law, religion, desire, nationhood, fantasy, language, aspirations and cultural codes. As a result of these interplays that rub against each other, contradictions about queer expressions become evident. To contextualise queer expressions in Kenya, and to usefully tease out these contradictions, an understanding of Kenya’s lived realities that cohere around these discourses can be ex…
Queer Fragmentation as Method
The everyday life of queer individuals, their experiences and scopes are lived in relation to the various fragments that structure sociability. Queer lives are first and foremost fragmented and fragmentary in their everyday survival practices and tactics. If we understand fragmentation and its various components as part and parcel of the everyday — that the vicissitudes of the transient and liminal everyday come to us as fragments, what then does…
Nairobi Queer Visibilities/Invisibilities and Forms of Queer Ambivalence
African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (5 obras) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (5 obras) · Queer (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Aesthetics (4 obras) · Art (4 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras) · Epistemology (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Computer Science (2 obras)