Trans-activism: Transformation of the semantic structure within this field of studyThe article reviews academic literature on transgender people’s social movements, using a database of 345 publications (1997-2023) gathered from Scopus and Timbó Foco. It analyzes keyword co-occurrence networks to explore the semantic structure of the field. The study focuses on key questions raised by research into trans-activism, social movements, its links with state, and citizenship, while also highlighting shifts in conceptual perspectives over recent decades.
Keywords
Social Movements; Transgender; Network Analysis; Word Clusters; Citizenship; Women Writers
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Source: Author's own creation based on a literature reviewNote: The network is diagrammed using the Kamada Kawai algorithm. The size of the nodes is proportional to their degree.
Source: Author's own creation based on a literature reviewNote: Networks are diagrammed using the Kamada Kawai algorithm. The communities detected using the Method of Louvain are listed, and some similar clusters identified from flat communities are referenced.
Source: Author's creation based on the literature review.Note: The graph represents quintiles 1 and 3, and the mean of the year’s distributions in which the articles using the most frequent words were published. The size of the point representing the mean is proportional to the number of articles that included the word.
Source: Author's creation based on the literature reviewNote: Only the graphs for data clusters 5 to 10 are included.