Governing Thirdness: State, Society, and Non-Binary Identities in Pakistan

Muhammad Azfar Nisar

doi:10.1017/9781009030045

Governing Thirdness

State, Society, and Non-Binary Identities in Pakistan

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Muhammad Azfar Nisar, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: December 2021
Print publication year:: 2022
Online ISBN:: 9781009030045
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009030045

Subjects:: Sociology of Gender, Area Studies, South Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Asian Studies, Politics and International Relations, Sociology

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Khawaja Sira of Pakistan are a heterogeneous group of marginalized gender nonconforming individuals who defy traditional notions of gender and sexuality. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Lahore, Pakistan, Governing Thirdness provides important insights about the identity, marginalization and governance of the Khawaja Sira as they try to live an unliveable life. Taking a broad view of governance, this book includes a comprehensive analysis of governance of the Khawaja Sira across legal, social and administrative institutions. It also argues that labels like third gender and transgender fails to account for the gender fluid lives and multiple types of individuals who identify as Khawaja Sira, yet these categories, largely imported from the west, are used without much thought to govern this heterogeneous group.

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State, Society, and Non-Binary Identities in Pakistan

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

List of Abbreviations
pp xi-xii

1 - Governance, Thirdness, and the Khawaja Sira of Pakistan
pp 1-19

2 - Governing Thirdness through Religion, History, and Language
pp 20-36

Part I - Social Governance
pp 37-41

3 - Governing Thirdness in the Family
pp 42-59

4 - Governance in the Khawaja Sira Community
pp 60-78

Part II - Legal Governance
pp 79-82

5 - Governing Thirdness by Law
pp 83-99

6 - Resisting Legal Thirdness
pp 100-114

Part III - Bureaucratic Governance
pp 115-119

7 - Governing Thirdness at the Bureaucratic Offices
pp 120-133

8 - Governing Thirdness at Work
pp 134-152

9 - Governing Thirdness on the Street
pp 153-168

10 - Resisting Bureaucratic Governance of Thirdness
pp 169-185

11 - Waste, Governance, and Inclusion
pp 186-199

Glossary
pp 200-203

Bibliography
pp 204-221

Index
pp 222-227

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