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Social Imaginary of the Hijras: Dominant Cultural Narratives Mediating Ritualistic Consumption of Transgender and Gender Non-Binary Consumers in Bangladesh

Shahriar, Hossain LU orcid (2020) Consumer Culture Theory Conference 2020 3. p.97-99
Abstract
This research interrogates ritualistic consumption of hijras, Transgender and Gender Non-Binary individuals in Bangladesh, manifested in a perpetual negotiation of ideologies, myths, religion, politico-legal and sociocultural imperatives. The study enacts social imaginaries of hijras to animate how hijras are oppressed but occasionally granted peripheral inclusion, journey through a liminal rite of passage into communitas and co-opt hegemonic ritualistic consumption, and has been relegated from being viewed in the trope of purity to pollution. The study contributes to prior CCT theories on marginalisation/stigmatisation and literature on intersectionality of gender.
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Research in Consumer Culture Theory : Proceedings of the Consumer Culture Theory Conference Leicester 2020 - Proceedings of the Consumer Culture Theory Conference Leicester 2020
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Patsiaouras, Georgios ; Fitchett, James and Earley, AJ
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3
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3 pages
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Consumer Culture Theory Conference 2020
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Leicester, United Kingdom
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2020-06-25 - 2020-06-28
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978-87-94006-03-3
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English
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  abstract     = {{This research interrogates ritualistic consumption of hijras, Transgender and Gender Non-Binary individuals in Bangladesh, manifested in a perpetual negotiation of ideologies, myths, religion, politico-legal and sociocultural imperatives. The study enacts social imaginaries of hijras to animate how hijras are oppressed but occasionally granted peripheral inclusion, journey through a liminal rite of passage into communitas and co-opt hegemonic ritualistic consumption, and has been relegated from being viewed in the trope of purity to pollution. The study contributes to prior CCT theories on marginalisation/stigmatisation and literature on intersectionality of gender.}},
  author       = {{Shahriar, Hossain}},
  booktitle    = {{Research in Consumer Culture Theory : Proceedings of the Consumer Culture Theory Conference Leicester 2020}},
  editor       = {{Patsiaouras, Georgios and Fitchett, James and Earley, AJ}},
  isbn         = {{978-87-94006-03-3}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{97--99}},
  title        = {{Social Imaginary of the Hijras: Dominant Cultural Narratives Mediating Ritualistic Consumption of Transgender and Gender Non-Binary Consumers in Bangladesh}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/98054473/Shahriar_2020_.pdf}},
  volume       = {{3}},
  year         = {{2020}},
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