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Goethe-University Frankfurt
GRK Doing Transitions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

address:
IKB-building, 4th<\/sup> floor
Eschersheimer Landstra\u00dfe 121
60322 Frankfurt am Main<\/p>\n\n\n\n

address:
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 1
IKB-Geb\u00e4ude, Postfach 3
60323 Frankfurt am Main<\/p>\n\n\n\n

okroi(at)uni-frankfurt.de<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Lio Okroi studied Political Science at LMU Munich and Sociology at the University of Freiburg. Their research focuses on gender and sexuality, subjectivation, affect, and memory. They work with discourse-analytical as well as reconstructive-hermeneutic methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Sociology of Fluid Genders and Sexualities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In their doctoral project, Lio Okroi investigates the field of stability and changeability of gender and desire. From a subjectivation-theoretical perspective, they are interested in the social requirement to have a definite and unchangeable gender and sexual orientation \u2013 as well as in what happens when this requirement is not (fully) met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on narrative interviews, Lio Okroi first of all explores how people whose gender and\/or desire changes over their life course experience and narrate transitions. The project thus contributes to a reflexive and critical research on transitions: fluid transitions<\/em> are a form of transitional deviance that diverges from normative biographies and classical coming-out stories. Their study therefore enables a queer and fluidifying perspective on processes of transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secondly, Lio Okroi is interested in the historically grown conditions of variability and stability of gender and sexual orientation. How is the demand for unambiguity related to current social conditions and transformations? Which modes of existence, categories, and narratives are available to whom \u2013 and imposed on whom? How do processes of subjectivation unfold in this context? To what extent, and in what ways, is it possible today to live \u2018fluidly\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thirdly, supported by the method of body mapping, Lio Okroi focuses on the bodily and affective dimensions of subjectivation. They reconstruct which body practices and modifications, as well as emotions and affects play a role in gendered and sexual self-relations. They hold that processes of subjectivation do not produce immaterial and abstract entities, but feeling, desiring, vulnerable persons of flesh and blood who position and transform themselves within social relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, with their doctoral project, Lio Okroi aims to challenge the widespread notion \u2013 in society at large, but also within the social sciences and queer communities \u2013 of a general stability of gender and sexual orientation, and to analyze its societal functions and effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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