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

• 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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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Företagsekonomi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Business Administration (hsv//eng)

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