Abstract

Abstract Drawing from ethnographic field research in northwestern Ghana, I investigate the public discourse of desire by recounting the experience of a personal relationship. I dislocate presumptions about dichotomous power differentials between the researcher and researched and instead investigate the complex, sometimes contradictory navigation of human relationships. I argue that the performance of desire is understood only through a culturally intelligible lens that in this case exposes the mechanisms that inform gendered and racialized subjectivity. Navigating the terrain of desiring and being desired and the culturally specific terms through which desire is produced directs us toward a relationally constructed understanding of subjectivity.

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