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This forum contribution explores the strengths and limits of Noam Yuran’s innovative call for a new political economy of sex and desire. It has three prongs. First, I discuss Yuran’s compelling focus on the curious durability of monogamy as an institution. Second, I examine his analysis of thinkers such as Mandeville and Weber. Finally, I turn to the question of love. I suggest that Yuran’s approach opens a pathway to a more loving and more realistic political economy of intimacy and familial love, one that I suggest is missing in much critical theory today, particularly in the rhetoric of family abolitionists.

Abstract As a result of family rejection, harassment and social exclusion, transgender adolescents are prone to suffering from symptoms of depression, anxiety, eating disorders, self-harm and even suicidal ideation. In gender binary and heteronormative social contexts, as in Chile and Portugal, such adolescents may feel pressured to conform to dominant gender normativities, seeking to align their bodies according to the socially imposed ideals of female and male. Although Chile and Portugal have advanced in the legal recognition of self-determination of gender identity in recent years, they have also encountered problems in implementing health policies aimed at the adolescent transgender population, which would thereby imply a failure to guarantee the fundamental right to health.

Examines ideas of violence in German culture after 9/11 through the lens of \"violence elsewhere\" - exploring works and discourses about violence in distant locations or times. Following the Nazi era, the Holocaust, and the Second World War, in postwar Germany thinking or speaking about that extreme violence seemed distinctively difficult - even perhaps, at times, impossible. Yet we can learn about understandings of violence in this period in novel ways by exploring images and constructions in German culture of faraway violence, as shown in the recent volume Violence Elsewhere 1: Imagining Distant Violence in Germany, 1945-2001. As of September 11, 2001, violence came to appear transnationally, spectacularly mobile in new ways. Consequently, Violence Elsewhere 2 explores ideas about \"violence elsewhere\" in German-language culture since 2001. Here, \"elsewhere\" can mean not only distant places; it may also be violence perceived as foreign, or in the past. Simultaneously, this work suggests that the idea of 9/11 as a watershed in thinking about violence is more complex than meets the eye. Here, nine essays consider classic literary forms like poetry and prose fiction, from the short story to the intergenerational German family novel to Black feminist speculative fiction. Contributors examine, too, philosophy, performance and multimedia art, political and other forms of public discourse, and film. Topics include, amongst others, the \"war on terror,\" slow environmental violence, the Armenian genocide, portrayals of refugees and migrants, legacies of colonial violence, space travel, and the persistent resonance of the German past. Contributors: Sofía Forchieri, Susanne C. Knittel, Marie Kolkenbrock, Priscilla Layne, Joanne Leal, Francesca Lewis, Frauke Matthes, Lizzie Stewart, Nicola Thomas, and Kathrin Wunderlich. This book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.

This work presents a defense of causal contrastivism based on causal contexualism. As argued, our proposal on causal contextualism is compatible with both causal contrastivism and causal binarism, including explanations of why and in which sense secondary counterfactuals are relevant.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore an alternative strategy to decrease disadvantaging gender binarism and cis-normativity in an organisational context by including trans* and gender diverse (TGD) employee voices through the development of a safe and brave space (S&BS). Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper discusses the potential construction of S&BS and the possible integration as well as requirements of it into an organisational environment. The elaborated theoretical underpinning of a queering approach is used to build the foundation and the design of a potential successful implementation. Findings Current diversity management strategies are repeatedly reported as inadequate to tackle the issue of gender binarism and cis-normativity or even to reinforce them via various strategies. The integration of S&BS could offer cis as well as TGD people an opportunity to participate in the development of organisational structures and managerial decision-making within a democratic and empowering environment. Managing gender with the support of TGD employees may increase inclusion, equity and diversity of gender in management and organisation. Originality/value Although much of the management and organisational literature accepts the concept of gender binarism and cis-normativity, the integration of TGD employee voices through the adaptation of S&BS from an educational context into organisational management has not been explored.

The paper raises the problem of binarisms in Juri Lotman’s conceptual and text analytical system from a new perspective. The approach combines several focal aspects of examination. It consist of the parallel study of the application of the notion of binarism in cultural semiotic theory and its active role as a crucial methodological tool for literary text interpretation (the question is: how binary notions in scientific interpretive metatexts are related to the examined culture texts and traditions). Binary models are put into a context of ternary models as interpreted by J. Lotman and B. Uspensky in their 1977 article “The Role of Dual Models in the Dynamics of Russian Culture (until the End of the Eighteenth Century).” The theory expounded by the two scholars is compared with Lotman’s overview of Russian literature of the classical period (1992) where he gives further details on the two models manifesting themselves in 19th-century authors’ poetics. In the paper, the role of the neutral, inbetween semantic sphere is accorded special attention so as to clarify the real nature of Lotman’s suggestion in identifying the meaning-creative energy of this middle, mediatory semantic zone. Through the investigation, the coherence of Lotman’s oeuvre is revealed, which refutes the possibility of interpreting the functionalisation of binary notions and their different uses within the framework of the structuralist or the poststructuralist paradigm. The universal cultural nature of thinking in oppositions is interpreted in concrete terms of the semiotic principles of meaning-engendering, explaining the issues of semantic difference (deviation), meaning-transformation (text-dynamics), the shift from binarism to plurality, and semiotic mediation. The paper ends with outlining future perspectives in the investigation of the problem of binarisms.

This article examines African binarism in Ama Ata Aidoo’s play, The Dilemma of a Ghost. The concept of binarism encompasses the nostalgic predilection for the homeland yet, the preconception of home depends on the way in which colonial hegemony appears. The purpose of this study is, therefore, to shed light on the latent circumstances which project onto this play, the inherent impetus of this binarism. The focus will be on Aidoo’s conceptualization of the African diaspora and how it has affected the cultural aspects of the Africans’ ways of life. To analyze these cultural issues, the methodology of this study utilizes the concept of transculturation. In essence, the concept of transculturation emphasizes a mix of two discrepant cultures. These cultures are different from each other yet similar in their sense of belonging to the homeland. This sense of belonging forges the reconciliation of two opposite ethnic races that belong to the same culture.  As such, the study highlights the African diaspora depicted in The Dilemma of a Ghost as the primal cause of this transculturation. Consequently, it explores the African diaspora that resulted from forced migration imposed upon diverse national ethnicities that chose to live together in one place - They mingle with each other in the host country, which exemplifies an utterly different cultural facet. To cope with cultural differences, they co-exist with each other by dint of transculturation.

Documentos que subsidiam a assistência à saúde de pessoas transexuais surgem no Brasil no final do século XX. Como política pública, o processo transexualizador foi redefinido em 2013 no Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) brasileiro. A literatura discute a forma como o modelo biomédico atravessa as práticas em saúde e desconsidera os aspectos socioculturais da comunidade. Porém, para além da interface biologicista, sabe-se que as práticas de cuidado a corpos trans também têm suas identidades permeadas pelo binarismo de gênero. O presente artigo realizou uma discussão teórico-conceitual sobre a forma como o binarismo de gênero influencia as práticas em saúde para pessoas trans e violenta a diversa possibilidade de existência desses corpos e identidades. O binarismo de gênero incide sobre as práticas assistenciais com o objetivo de corrigir esses corpos para dentro da norma biológica do ser homem e mulher e ignoram as percepções e desejos das pessoas trans sobre os seus próprios corpos, colocando-as como coadjuvantes desse processo em que deveriam ser protagonistas. Devem ser assegurados espaços assistenciais seguros que respeitem os desejos das pessoas trans sobre os seus corpos e a diversa possibilidade de existência referente a corporalidade humana e a identidade de gênero.

A passagem bíblica de Lucas 16, 19-31 é uma das mais citadas e discutidas do Novo Testamento. No entanto, quando analisada a partir das relações engendradas na sequência dos fatos narrados, uma série de programas narrativos pressupostos contribui para a elucidação do sentido desse texto. Esta pesquisa, portanto, analisará a referida passagem a partir da perspectiva da semiótica greimasiana. O método pretende desvelar o percurso gerativo de sentido e destacar os elementos intratextuais, que perfazem o trajeto de construção da significação da passagem. Ele permite analisar suas estruturas superficiais e profundas: vai do simples ao complexo, do mais abstrato ao mais concreto. Pode assim evidenciar as oposições semânticas a partir das quais se constitui o sentido do texto e a sua categoria semântica fundamental. O método tem potencial para representar a organização relacional entre as condições sociais dos sujeitos da narrativa. Além disso, fornece um suporte metodológico neutro que evita conclusões antecipadas e tendenciosidades. A análise da intertextualidade completa o processo iniciado com a Semiótica greimasiana. Isso porque uma leitura atenta de Lc16,19-31 não ignorará seu contexto imediato e mais amplo: Lucas e Atos lidos sequencialmente. Situando a parábola nessa narrativa mais ampla, os leitores de Lucas poderiam perceber elementos conectivos, ligando a história contada por Jesus ao que estava acontecendo na igreja primitiva. Assim, na boca de Jesus a história do rico e do mendigo foi contada como uma crítica à avareza, mas, no plano redacional de Lucas foi usada para desafiar os crentes a se envolverem com o cuidado dos pobres.

In the article, I try to demonstrate that artistic photography which involves the use of technology of creating “shimmering, synthetic appearances” (K. Linker, “On Artificiality”) can become a medium for community art projects developed with people who are systemically excluded from view in the public sphere. Applying the method of iconographic analysis, I describe selected portrait photographs by Krzysztof Marchlak that feature images of people who belong to the Polish LGBTQ community. I draw in conclusion upon the artist’s large-format photographic panorama Paradiso, which I interpret as a socially engaged, “shimmering, synthetic appearance” of an artificial paradise for people expelled from the kingdom of binary gender oppositions.