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The Dera Paradigm: Homecoming of the Gendered Other
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Abstract This article engages with the idiosyncratic dwelling practices of khwajasara, a Pakistani gender-variant subjectivity better known as hijre in the larger South Asian context. As a prevalent type of khwajasara household, the dera plays a paradigmatic role in their homecoming narratives; whether as a ... mehr
This article engages with the idiosyncratic dwelling practices of khwajasara, a Pakistani gender-variant subjectivity better known as hijre in the larger South Asian context. As a prevalent type of khwajasara household, the dera plays a paradigmatic role in their homecoming narratives; whether as a post-home, the refuge from an unhomely natal familial house and a terrorising school environment, or as an intermediary bodily, spiritual and communal sanctuary on a journey towards one's Home after post-home. Anchored in the idea of the dera, and especially as intimated to me on a late September afternoon in Lahore, this article zigzags through khwajasara's historical and present-day multi-local experiences of homecoming, which is posited here as both spatial and identitary journeying towards collective thereness. As a property of dwelling with kindred souls, I argue that thereness equips khwajasara with exploratory senses of the subject, including, at times, those of being otherworldly and nomadic. Such thereness disrupts the very idea of settlement and allows the dera and its inhabitants to not only transgress communal boundaries - such as those of gender, religion, ethnicity and language - but also to construe home as a journey, not a destination. At the same time, it reveals various productive anxieties about khwajasara's - or, indeed, everyone's - classed, urbanised, economised and gendered home-life.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Pakistan; Angst; Heimat; Nomade; Nichtsesshaftigkeit; Transsexualität
Klassifikation
Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie
Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Freie Schlagwörter
Lahore; The Mughal Empire; aghāwāt; dera; dergah; hijre; homecoming; khwajasara; post-home; productive anxieties; thereness
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 34-57
Zeitschriftentitel
EthnoScripts: Zeitschrift für aktuelle ethnologische Studien, 21 (2019) 1
Heftthema
Post-Home: Dwelling on Loss, Belonging and Movement
ISSN
2199-7942
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0