Transgender, trans-culturalism, transnationalism – `trans' concepts are experiencing a political and academic boom. They bring with them the demand to open up socio-cultural identities. But the borders of national, social and corporeal spaces, which have now become fluid, threaten to re-solidify into traditions and forms of neo-racism: thus, values of the bourgeois nuclear family and right wing populist positions are not just being continually brought up, but are being actively reproduced in various media and social channels. For this reason, the essays in this volume probe into the processes through which trans-concepts essentialize themselves – and at which normative frontiers do they come to grief?
