Date of Award
8-7-2024
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Anthropology
First Advisor
Faidra Papavasiliou
Second Advisor
Jennifer Patico
Third Advisor
Cassandra White
Abstract
This ethnography shows how trans* Georgia State University (GSU) undergraduate students navigate the university, interact with university-created LGBTQ+ support structures, and how university-created LGBTQ+ support structures engaged with them. Trans* students find it difficult to navigate GSU because so much of the university’s bureaucratic structures involve classifying people into gender categories. Through interviews, autoethnography, and participant observation, trans* students’ negotiation of that pressure is illuminated and interrogated in this work. Ultimately, queer students find GSU-created and sponsored organizations lacking in genuine support but take the pieces they need and build the rest on their own.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/37421697
Recommended Citation
Townsend, Elizabeth, "Trans* in the Neoliberal University: Students’ Relationship with Georgia State University and its LGBTQ+ Support Structures." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/37421697
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