Legal constructions of trans* subjectivity across empires: a comparative and connected study of British India and French Algeria

跨帝国跨*主体性的法律建构：英属印度和法属阿尔及利亚的比较和关联研究

• 批准号: 2881687
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2881687
• 关键词: Legal; constructions; trans; subjectivity; across

This project seeks to understand how the interaction of legal frameworks and wider cultural attitudes constructed disciplining discourses of gender/sexuality in colonial settings, alongside their contemporary legacy through analysis of the experiences of trans* refugees in France and Britain. It takes a comparative and connected approach, using 19th-20th century Algeria and India as principle case studies to focus on legal frameworks surrounding policing gender/sexuality. Throughout many pre-colonial societies, this existed outside of European imperialist boundaries and colonial legal regimes attempted to extinguish this by imposing doctrines. These have had long-lasting effects on treatments of refugees in former colonies, meaning those unable to conform to dominant ideals of cisgender heterosexuality encounter particular difficulties. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this work will engage with socio-legal theory, histories of colonial law; gender and sexuality; and decolonial/postcolonial studies. Histories of empires have advanced from attempting to understand empires as an expression of natural history, to venturing into researching transnationally. This project contributes to this scholarship innovatively by addressing issues of sexuality and the body within the law; a topic currently understudied. Without filling this gap, we cannot begin to understand the complexity of colonial power dynamics and their effects on colonised subjects and postcolonial communities.

该项目旨在通过分析法国和英国的跨性别难民的经历，了解法律框架和更广泛的文化态度的相互作用如何在殖民环境中构建性别/性的规训话语，以及它们的当代遗产。它采用比较和关联的方法，以 19 世纪至 20 世纪的阿尔及利亚和印度为主要案例研究，重点关注围绕性别/性行为警务的法律框架。在许多前殖民社会中，这种现象存在于欧洲帝国主义边界之外，殖民法律制度试图通过强加教条来消除这种现象。这些对前殖民地难民的待遇产生了长期影响，这意味着那些无法遵守顺性别异性恋主导理念的人会遇到特别的困难。这项工作将采用跨学科的方法，涉及社会法律理论、殖民法律史；性别和性取向；和非殖民/后殖民研究。帝国史已经从试图将帝国理解为自然历史的表达，发展到冒险进行跨国研究。该项目通过解决法律范围内的性和身体问题，为这项奖学金做出了创新贡献；目前正在研究的一个主题。如果不填补这一空白，我们就无法开始理解殖民权力动态的复杂性及其对殖民主体和后殖民社区的影响。