Diplomová práce

Weapons of mass transition: Representations of transgender identities in American national security discourses

Blas Duhalde
Anotace

The present thesis is oriented toward answering how can the current rise of the perception of danger of transgender people in the United States be explained. Taking Alexander and Smith’s (1996) notions on “Social Science and Salvation: Risk Society as Mythical Discourse” as a base to study risk, along other texts on risk and gender, it attempts to make a cultural sociology explanation of the phenomenon …více

Abstract

The present thesis is oriented toward answering how can the current rise of the perception of danger of transgender people in the United States be explained. Taking Alexander and Smith’s (1996) notions on “Social Science and Salvation: Risk Society as Mythical Discourse” as a base to study risk, along other texts on risk and gender, it attempts to make a cultural sociology explanation of the phenomenon …více

Zadání práce

In recent time transgender issues have been progressively more prominent in public discourse, accompanied by a rising push-back by conservative sectors. Such push-back usually entails the vilification and scapegoating of trans people as the responsible for a myriad of social problems. Specifically, in the current Trump administration both the president and FBI as well as numerous republican representatives have cataloged trans people as dangerous and “Nihilistic Violent Extremists”. With cases such as trying to typify them into official national enemies, trying to limit their access to guns (mind the US context and their devotion to firearms), and trying to connect them to the assassination of Charlie Kirk by any means possible. While some studies exist on the recent “anti-gender movement” such as Graff and Korolczuk’s “Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment” and Butler’s “Who's Afraid of Gender?” (2024); as well as other accounts of it through history such as Foucalt’s “The will to knowledge”, Kinsman’s “Whose National Security? Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies Toronto: Between the Lines” (2000) and Serano’s “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”; these have not necessarily been made with a cultural sociology toolbox. Thus, giving the phenomenon the a cultural sociological approach could prove a fruitful endeavor.

Práce zkontrolována:
4. 5. 2026 07:54, Dr. Werner Binder
Jazyk práce
angličtina angličtina
Termín obhajoby
25. 5. 2026
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Vedoucí

Dr. Werner Binder
KSoc FSS MU

Oponent

doc. Mgr. Pavel Pospěch, Ph.D., učo 52755
KSoc FSS MU

Literatura

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Masarykova univerzita Fakulta sociálních studií
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