Böcker av Anna Apostolidou

This book focuses on the example of surrogate motherhood to explore the interplay between new reproductive technologies and new ethnographic writing technologies. It seeks to interrogate the potential of fictional multimodality in ethnography and to illuminate the generative possibilities of digital artefacts in anthropological research. It also makes a case for the tailor-made character of ethnographic writing in the digital era, arguing that research quests and representational modalities can be paired together to develop unique narrative forms, corresponding to each particular topic¿s traits and analytical affordances. Focusing on the intersections of assisted reproduction technologies and digitally mediated writing, this study casts light upon the value of the affective, the fictional and the ¿real¿ in the anthropological research and writing of relatedness. Analyzing the situated knowledge of ethnographers and research interlocutors, it experiments with multimodal storytelling and revisits the century-long debate on the affinity between an object of study and the possibilities for its representation. As the first attempt to bring together digital anthropology, fiction writing and the ethnography of surrogacy, this book fuses the genealogy of feminist critique on the orthodox, phallocentric, and heteronormative aspects of academic discourse with the input of digital humanities vis-à-vis troubling the conventional formal properties of scholarly writing.

How are the Olympic Games related to Athenian lgbtq venues? Is Cavafy a national poet or a gay idol? How is sexual subjectivity being shaped within a subtly nationalist discourse that passes as a naturalized 'Greek identity'? And how is the idea of the nation itself being queered by the increasing visibility of its gay and queer subjects? Focusing on the coming out practices of Greek men who desire men during the first decade of the 21st century, this book documents a liminal point in time as regards the manners in which same-sex desire is being experienced and articulated. In exploring the collective and private ways of performing gay and queer subjectivity in contemporary Greece, research interlocutors associate sexual disclosure to the very tenets of national identity: family, religion and motherland. Language and materiality bring out the emerging repertoires of claiming public space and illuminate the cultural idioms of disclosure, as well as the discursive genealogies and kinship modalities of modern culture. This analysis should be useful to anthropologists, gender and queer studies students as well as activists with a special focus on Greek ethnography.