197pp., paperback, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, 2024

ISBN: 9781978836075

An ethnographic exploration of queer and trans activist work in rural areas of the US South and in South Africa.

"Jessica Scott has brilliantly pulled the rug out from under the feet of comparative studies. Empirically and theoretically sophisticated, this tour de force gracefully explodes the blueprint of metronormativity in queer research and activism in the United States and South Africa. By understanding the processes through which danger/inhospitability is amplified and practices invested in gerrymandering sexual geographies, this mature queer work of homemaking and placemaking announces the expiration date of geopolitical and metronormative exceptionalisms." S. N. Nyeck, author of African(a) Queer Presence: Ethics and politics of negotiation

"Home Is Where Your Politics Are is a timely and remarkable book that uncovers the relationship between queerness and land in the US South and South Africa. Deeply reflexive in her positionality and methodological embeddedness, Scott forces us to rethink rural spaces and the political activism that queer people engage in to make and shape their lands. A necessary book for all those invested in transnational queer activist struggles for land, home and belonging." Zethu Matebeni, co-editor of Beyond the Mountain: Queer life in 'Africa’s Gay Capital'

Jessica A. Scott is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, West Virginia.

HOME IS WHERE YOUR POLITICS ARE, queer activism in the U.S. South and South Africa

: Scott (J.)

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