Todd Sekuler
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PhD Project: An Ethnography of a Medical Category in Transition: Exploring Changes to les troubles précoces de l’identité de genre |
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Description of the Project
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This project employs ethnographic methods to analyze the removal of les troubles précoces de l’identité de genre (TIG) from the list of affections psychiatriques de longue durée by the French Minister of Health – an act government and media outlets described as a depathologization of transgender identities. The thesis explores the relations between the French nation and this and related initiatives that signal the increasing, yet ambivalent, incorporation of transgender subjects into the French national imaginary. I base my work on a policy and media analysis, together with two years of fieldwork about the implications of these changes within the context of health care provision for transgender persons in public hospitals. Fieldwork based at the Société française d’étude et de prise en charge du transsexualisme – a national group of care providers specialized in TIG – will be used to explore the ideological tensions that surface in relation to growing pressures for depathologization. |
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Particulars
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Todd Sekuler, BA in Biology and French language and literature in Madison, MPH in New York, doctoral student at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin's Institut für europäische Ethnologie and at Aix-Marseille University’s Institut d'Ethnologie Méditerranéenne, Européenne et Comparative. A doctoral fellow of the PhD research training group since 2012. |
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Selected Publications
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Convivial Relations between Gender Non-Conformity and the French Nation-State. In: L’Esprit Créateur 53/1 (2013). S. 15 – 30. |
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