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

该项目旨在了解如何通过分析法国和英国的跨 * 难民的经历，法律的框架和更广泛的文化态度的相互作用，在殖民地环境中构建性别/性行为的纪律话语，以及其当代遗产。它采取了比较和联系的方法，以19 - 20世纪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/性行为警务的法律的框架。在许多前殖民地社会中，这一点存在于欧洲帝国主义边界之外，殖民法律的政权试图通过强加理论来消除这一点。这些对前殖民地的难民待遇产生了长期影响，这意味着那些无法符合顺性异性恋主流理想的人会遇到特殊的困难。使用跨学科的方法，这项工作将从事社会法律理论，殖民法的历史;性别和性;和非殖民/后殖民研究。帝国的历史已经从试图将帝国理解为自然历史的表达，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，创新地为该奖学金做出贡献;这是目前研究不足的一个主题。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。

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.