This dissertation excavates the multifaceted intricacies surrounding the socioeconomic transformations of southeastern Syria, which subsequently was named Transjordan, from the late Ottoman period (circa 1840s) to the 1930s. Through a rigorous engagement with Marxism, postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, gender and queer theor(y/ies), and studies of “economic theology,” it reinterprets capital, not as a thing or as an illusion, but as the performative effect of the capitalization of networks of knowledge-power, or, in other words, as an intersubjectively (i.e., ideologically) agreed upon symbolization of the power relations that enable the bringing of future revenue into the present.The dissertation unfolds in three parts. The inaugural section, “Deconstructing Fantasies; (Re)Conceptualizing Capital,” problematizes foundational economic theories, scrutinizes capital’s ontological and theological underpinnings, and juxtaposes capitalization to sharīʿa’s moral cosmology. In doing so, it destabilizes conventional dichotomies between the economic and the political, probing deeply into capitalization’s metaphysical affinities with the metaphysics of modernity. The second part, “Explicating Capitalification,” foregrounds the structural transformations of the Ottoman Empire, dissecting its evolution in response to capitalistic imperatives. The narrative delves into the moral cosmologies that underpinned the Empire’s existence and the subsequent structural transformation of the empire, focusing particularly on fiscal centralization, the interplay of debt and power, and technologies of capitalification. This section interrogates the Ottoman Empire’s projects in southeastern Syria, excavating its endeavors in controlling the Bedouin, the implementation of education policies, and its intricate land codes and registration policies. In the third and final part, “Post-Ottoman Legacies,” the narrative transitions to spotlighting the residual colonial imprints on Transjordan’s emergent state structures and its intricate class formations. This part of the exploration takes a critical view of the Jordanian state’s production as an effect through colonizing mechanisms, mechanisms of colonization that limited production, and the performative aspects of class as an effect of citational practices. By focusing on different stratifications such as shaykhs, soldiers, and workers, this section demystifies the intricacies of class within the Transjordanian context, particularly in relation to the capitalization of land and debt-induced expropriation.

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This dissertation will focus specifically on queer deployments of femininity. I use queer here in two registers: both to refer to one’s nonnormative relationship to gender and/or sexuality and to how people are “made queer” by virtue of their shared subordination in relation to power (Ahmed, 2006; Cohen, 1997). In particular, Blackness, transness, and engagement in sex work are all made queer in relation to dominant cultural norms embedded in white supremacy, cisnormativity, and sex negativity. The vast majority of what we know about the valuation and devaluation of femininity relies on a tacit assumption of cisness and a presumed coherence between gender identity and gender performance. The operation of femmephobia—the repudiation of femininity and its social consequences—effects people of all genders, but to different degrees and consequences depending on who is its target. In this dissertation, I am interested in mapping on to each other both conceptualizations of “queer”—that is, as a gender and/or sexual identity and as a relation to power to analyze femmephobia across domains. For example, looking at the “feminine failures” (Hoskin, 2017; 2021) of those who do—or don’t do—femininity in ways that violate our cultural expectations can help tease out the value (or penalty) of its performance. Specifically, this dissertation seeks to answer the following questions: Is the experience of femininity dependent its wearer? Who “wears” femininity, and how? How do race, gender, and sex assigned at birth affect how it is valued, used, and assessed? Using ethnographic and interview data, this dissertation will consider three case studies in queer femininity across embodiments and social contexts. Specifically, the data includes 16 in-depth interviews with trans masculine and non- binary sex workers who embody femininity for work, 72 in-depth interviews with women who primarily date women and lesbians of all genders, and twelve months of virtual and in-person ethnographic observations across a variety of queer parties, bars, and events.

This study aims to show how themes of sexuality, consent and relationships is treated in a classic romance novel from the 19th century and in modern romantasy from the 21st century. In order to find the romance genre’s potential to be used as a teaching resource, in the Swedish subject as well as in sex education, towards the Swedish upper secondary school. Through hermeneutic reading and thematic comparative analysis of the novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and the first two books in the series A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas, examples of the themes are found and compared. The results are then interpreted through queer theory. The findings show that there is potential for the romance genre to be used as a teaching resource in the Swedish subject, particularly in discussion of themes such as sexuality, consent, and relationships.

Queer theory emphasizes the circulation of power through sex-gender-sexuality systems to trace methods of normalization for the purposes of political intervention. Within literature, queer theory functions as a lens into historical gender and sexual ideologies. My thesis attempts to bridge queer theory with medieval studies to highlight queer and non-normative sensibilities within a particular medieval text: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales develops characters who straddle the line between the queer and the licit, and he creates situations that disrupt the expected hetero-normative, masculine ideology of medieval England. Queering Canterbury explores how queer-gender, queer-bashing, queer humor, and the queynte function within Chaucer's Canterbury Tales while relating the overarching struggle for masculinity and power.

Bc. Martina Stanjurová The Chronic Innocence: A Queer Reading Abstract: The Master's thesis analyses Klaus Rifbjerg's novel The Chronic Innocence (1958), one of the central works of the Danish literature. The analysis is carried out from the gender studies perspective, namely through the principles of the post structuralist queer theories. The thesis deals with the analysis of the dynamics of the relationship between the central figures, the narrator Janus and his classmate Tore. By using the queer reading method, the thesis unveils how the narrator expresses and conceals his platonic fascination for the friend. Moreover, the thesis tries to explain the essence of the narrator's relationship to the female figures, which shows misogynic traits.

<p>Drag Cuisines is an interdisciplinary study of the cultural, social, and historical interconnectedness of veganism, queerness, and animality. To interrogate these links requires mixed methods such as the collection of oral histories with self-identified queer vegans, analysis of animal themes in queer film and literature, social media analysis, and analysis of food cultures and restaurant rhetorics. Following work by prominent American Studies scholars, this project posits that the practice of veganism embodies queer performativity in how queerness and animality are ontologically linked.</p>