Jan Hutta hat ethnographische und partizipative Forschungen in Rio de Janeiro und Berlin durchgeführt und arbeitete von 2010 bis 2012 für das aktivistische Forschungsprojekt "Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide". Er ist Gründungsmitglied von s u b \ u r b a n - zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung.
Er promovierte an der Open University in Milton Keynes, Großbritannien. Seine Forschung beschäftigte sich mit der Herausbildung räumlich vermittelter Formen von Citizenship im Zusammenhang mit Alltagserfahrungen queerer Menschen und Politiken der LGBT-Bewegung (Lesben, Schwule, Bi, Trans) in Brasilien.
Seine Habilitation untersucht die Herausbildung neuer Formen von Wissen und sozialer Praxis an der Schnittstelle von Grenzpolitik, Menschenrechtsdiskurs, Aktivismus und Alltagserfahrungen bezüglich migrantischer Transpersonen in Europa.
Forschungsinteressen
- räumliche Formationen von Macht und Citizenship
- Verhältnisse von Subjektivität und Raum
- Migration, Transnationalität und Grenzregimes
- Queere und Transgender-Politiken
- städtische Regierungsformen
- Sicherheitsdiskurse und Geographien der Geborgenheit
Publications
Co-Editor
‘Stadt und Migration: Neue Forschungsansätze zu Citizenship, Macht und Agency‘ (City and Migration: New Approaches to Citizenship, Power and Agency), edited by S. Hess, J.S. Hutta, H. Lebuhn, K. Müller, Special Issue of Sub\urban: Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung (Journal of Critical Urban Research) 4 (2014).
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Hutta, J. S. (2015) 'The affective life of semiotics', Geogr. Helv., 70, 295-309, doi:10.5194/gh-70-295-2015
Brown, G., Browne, K., Elmhirst, R. and Hutta, J.S. (2010) ‘Sexualities in/of the Global South’, Geography Compass, 4:10 (1567–1579). http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00382.x
Hutta, J.S. (2009) 'Geographies of Geborgenheit: beyond feelings of safety and the fear of crime' Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 27:2 (251-73). doi:10.1068/d3308
Hutta, J.S. (2009) ‘Translation in excess: engaging semiotics and the untranslatable’, Graduate Journal of Social Science, 6:3 (40-62). http://gjss.org/images/stories/volumes/6/3/0906.3a04Hutta.pdf
Chapters in edited collections
Hutta, J.S. (2016), ‘Queer affirmations and embodied knowledge in the Brazilian performance group Dzi Croquettes’. In: The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities, edited by G. Brown and K. Browne. London, New York: Routledge, pp. 143-153.
C. Balzer und J.S. Hutta (2014), ‘Trans networking in the European vortex: between advocacy and grassroots politics’. In A Rainbow Europe? LGBT Activism and the Making of Europe, edited by P. Ayoub and D. Paternotte. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 171-192.
Hutta, J.S. (2013) ‘Beyond the right to the governmentalized city: queer citizenship in a Brazilian context of peripheralization’. In: Peripheralization: The Making of Spatial Dependencies and Social Injustice, edited by A. Fischer-Tahir & M. Naumann. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 222-246.
Hutta, J.S. (2013) ‘Queere Konstellationen: Zum aktivistischen Potential queerer Mikopolitiken des Körpers in Brasilien’ (Queer Constellations – On the activist potential of queer micropolitics of the body in Brazil). In: Widerständigkeiten im Land der Zukunft: Ein anderes Brasilienbuch (Resistances in the Land of the Future: A Different Book on Brazil), edited by L. Tschorn, T. Schmitt and S. H. Araújo. Münster: Unrast, pp. 118-28.
Hutta, J.S. (2013) ‘Beyond the politics of inclusion: securitization and agential formations in Brazilian LGBT parades’. In: Queer Futures: Reconsidering Normativity, Activism and the Political, edited by E. Kilian, E. Haschemi Yekani, and B. Michaelis. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, pp. 67-82.
Hutta, J.S. and C. Balzer (2013) ‘Identities and citizenship under construction: historicising the ‘T’ in LGBT anti-violence politics in Brazil’. In: Queer Presences and Absences: Time, Future and History, edited by Y. Taylor and M. Addison. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 69-90.
Portuguese translation: ‘Identidades e cidadania em construção: historização do ‘T’ nas políticas de antiviolência LGTB no Brasil’. In: Geografias Malditas: Corpos, Sexualidades e Espaços, edited by J. M. Silva, M. J. Ornat & A. B. Chimin Junior. Pontagrossa: Todapalavra. 2013.
Hutta, J.S., J. Laister, B.z. Nieden, S. Hess (2013) ‘Kollaborationen und GrenzGänge zwischen akademischen und nicht-akademischen Wissenspraktiken: Ein Gespräch mit Jan Simon Hutta, Judith Laister, Birgit zur Nieden und Sabine Hess’ (Collaborations and BorderWalks between academic and non-academic practices of knowledge: a conversation with Jan Simon Hutta, Judith Laister, Birgit zur Nieden und Sabine Hess). In: Eingreifen, Kritisieren, Verändern? Ethnographische und genderkritische Perspektiven auf Interventionen (Intervening, Critiquing, Changing? Ethnographic and Gender-Critical Perspectives on Interventions), edited by B. Binder, F.v. Bose, K. Ebell, S. Hess and A. Kainz. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, pp. 151-173.
Hutta, J.S. (2010) ‘Paradoxical publicness: Becoming-imperceptible with the Brazilian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement’. In: Rethinking the Public: Innovations in Research, Theory and Policy, edited by N. Mahony, J. Newman, and C. Barnett. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 143–61.
Other publications
Hutta, J.S. (2015)' Andere Geborgenheiten: Topophilie jenseits des Authentizitätsdiskurses', sub\urban, 3(2): 109-124.
Book reviews
Hutta, J.S. (2015) review of Geografias Malditas: Corpos, Sexualidades e Espacos, by J.M. Silva, M.J. Ornat and A.B. C. Junior, Society & Space, available at http://societyandspace.com/
Hutta, J.S., S. Sosnowski, N. Teufel, M.G. Hannah, J. Cortiel, J. Holstegge (2015) review of Border as Method: the Multiplication of Labor by S. Mezzadra, B. Neilson, Progress in Human Geography 39(4), doi: 10.1177/0309132514535656
Hutta, J.S. (2014) review of Gefahrenzone, Angstraum, Feindesland? by T. Bürk. Antipode Feb. 2014, available at http://radicalantipode.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/book-review_hutta-on-burk.pdf
Hutta, J.S. (2013) review of Die Ordnung der Räume: Geographische Forschung im Anschluss an Michel Foucault by H. Füller & B. Michel (Eds).H-Soz-u-Kult, 2013-4-162, available at http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2013-4-162.pdf
Policy papers and reports
Balzer, C. and J.S. Hutta (2015) Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide: The Social Experiences of Trans and Gender-Diverse People in Colombia, India, the Philippines, Serbia, Thailand, Tonga, Turkey and Venezuela, Report of Transgender Europe’s Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide (TvT) research project. Berlin: TGEU (83 pp.), available at: http://transrespect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/TvT-PS-Vol9-2015.pdf
Balzer, C. and J.S. Hutta (2012) Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide: A Comparative Review of the Human-rights Situation of Gender-variant/Trans People, Report of Transgender Europe’s Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide (TvT) research project. Berlin: TGEU (120 pages), available at: http://transrespect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/TvT_research-report.pdf.
‘Tożsamość płciowa a prawa człowieka - Dokument tematyczny’ (‘Issue Paper: Humans Rights and Gender Identity’), Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. Polish translation – English original. 2011. TvT Publication Series – Vol. 3, Edited by C. Balzer and J.S. Hutta (57 pages).
‘I Diritti Umani e l’Identità di Genere - Issue Paper’ (‘Issue Paper: Humans Rights and Gender Identity’), Thomas Hammarberg, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. Italian translation – English original. 2011. TvT Publication Series – Vol. 4, Edited by C. Balzer and J.S. Hutta (56 pages).
Guest lectures
‘Afirmação paradoxal: As prácticas alternativas de gênero do grupo Dzi Croquettes’ (Paradoxical Affirmation: The Alternative Enactments of Gender of the Group Dzi Criquettes). Lecture at the Grupo de Estudos Territoriais (GETE), University of Ponta Grossa, Paraná, 27 Jun. 2015.
‘Queerpass: Kämpfe um Sexualität und Geschlecht in Brasilien‘ (Cross/queer pass: Struggles around Sexuality and Gender in Brazil). Lecture at University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, 3 Nov. 2014.
‘La migración de personas trans y el control de las fronteras europeas’ (The migration of trans people and the control of European borders). Lecture at the Geography Department of UNAM, Mexico City, 13 Apr. 2014.
‘Queer-Pässe: machos, bichas, funkeiras - Geschlechterverhältnisse im Wandel’ (Cross/queer passes: machos, bichas, funkeiras – gender relations in transition). Lecture and workshop at Runder Tisch Brasilien (Round Table Brazil), Naunhof, Germany, 30 November – 2 December 2012.
‘Queerizar as geografias das sexualidades: perigos e promessas em re-inventar tradições’ (Queering geographies of sexualities: dangers and promises in reinventing traditions). Lecture at the Centre of Geographic Studies, Lisbon University, Portugal, 2 March 2011.
Select conference papers
‘The affectivity of power: queer desires and political struggles in Brazil’. Paper presented at the AAG Conference, San Francisco, 30 Mar. 2016.
‘Die Affektivität der Macht’ (The affectivity of power). Paper presented at the German Geography Conference (DKG), Berlin, 4 Oct. 2015.
‘Trans politics between human rights and border control’. Paper presented at the ESF Exploratory Workshop on Transgender and Political Science in Europe, Brussels, Belgium, 17-19 Sep. 2014.
‘Interseções de Poder e Cidadania Queer na Baixada Fluminense’. Paper presented at the II Seminário Latino-Americano de Geografia, Gênero e Sexualidades, Rondônia, Brazil, 8-14 Oct. 2014.
‘Queer necropolitics and other power geometries in Brazil’. Paper presented at the RGS-IBG Conference, London, UK, 27-29 August 2014.
‘Tropical queers transnational: towards new solidarities’. Paper presented at the 3rd European Conference on Politics and Gender, Barcelona, Spain, 21-23 March 2013.
‘Geborgenheit zwischen Biedermeier und technokulturellen Fabelwesen: Gefühlsraum-Kartographie mit einem transitorischen Konzept’ (Geborgenheit between the Biedermeier and technocultural fictional creatures: cartography of spaces of feeling with a transitory concept). Paper presented at the Gefühlsräume – Raumgefühle (Spaces of Feelings – Spatial Feelings) workshop, Berlin, Germany, 10-11 January 2013.
‘Enacting citizenship from the margins: democratisation, neoliberalisation and queer agency in Brazilian peripheries’. Paper presented at the Pre-Conference of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, Hamburg, Germany, 23-25 August 2012.
‘Queer citizenship in Rio de Janeiro’s periphery: contesting liberal governmentality’. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Critical Geography, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 16-20 August 2011.
‘Mapping without maps? Affective cartography as a tool for critical social research’. Paper presented at the Mapping Urban Space Workshop, Toronto, Canada, 2-13 December 2011.
‘Sexualised geometries of power: securitisation, publicity and citizenship in Brazilian LGBT parades’. Paper presented at the 1st European Geographies of Sexualities Conference, Brussels, Belgium, 8-10 September 2011.
‘Affective enactments of sameness and difference: agency and citizenship in Brazilian queer life and politics’. Paper presented at the Beyond Citizenship Conference, London, UK, 30 June – 2 July 2010.
‘Tasks for the responsible translator: towards a methodology of the untranslatable’. Presented at the 13th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology in Nanjing, China, 15-19 May 2009.
‘Beyond the modern deployment of safety: analysing geographies of Geborgenheit’. Paper presented at the Annual International Conference of the RGS-IBG, London, UK, 28-31 August 2007.