Feeling the weight of the water : young nonbinary individuals and their strategies for manoeuvring through a binary world

Perger, Nina (avtor)

Studies of transgender individuals often focus on the transgressive nature of their identities and practices or on experiences of transphobia, rejection and violence. Rather than focusing on transgression or marginalization, this paper offers insight into practical knowledge, presenting a feel for the game that young nonbinary individuals develop out of social necessity, as the social world, with its gender binary social structures, remains resistant to nonbinary identities and practices. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 12 nonbinary participants in Slovenia and Bourdieu’s concept of practical knowledge, this paper analyses skilful practical strategies for coping with anticipated and experienced misrecognition. These strategies encompass tactful playing along with the binary rules of the game, pushing the rules into a state of limbo and directly engaging and confronting the rules of the game. Moreover, a differentiated domain of strategies emerges, according to the parameters of safety, anticipation of achieving recognition and affective investment in the relations. Overall, the data show that nonbinary individuals are skilful agents who apply a range of practical strategies to manoeuvre through a gender binary world. The article enables insight into young people as actively engaging with objective conditions that are not of their making.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: transgender, nonbinary identities, practical knowledge, misrecognition, Bourdieu
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FDV - Fakulteta za družbene vede
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2024
• Št. strani: Str. 673–685
• Številčenje: Vol. 33, no. 5
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-149242
• UDK: 305
• ISSN pri članku: 0958-9236
• DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2023.2227115
• COBISS.SI-ID: 163359235
• Datum objave v RUL: 05.09.2023

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Journal of gender studies
• Skrajšan naslov: J. gend. stud.
• Založnik: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 0958-9236
• COBISS.SI-ID: 723989

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: študije spolov

Projekti

• Financer: ARIS - Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: P5-0183
• Naslov: Socialna psihologija in sociologija vsakdanjega življenja

• Financer: ARIS - Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Program financ.: Young researchers