Overview
- Proposes a discussion on how to approach queer theory from a decolonial point of view
- Shows how queer theory can be reelaborated in the Latin American context of drastic social inequality
- Analyzes concrete and unique local experiences of dissident bodies, like the Brazilian travestis
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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Through meetings between dissident bodies in the Global South, the book suggests that the theoretical-poetic inventions formulated in this part of the world cannot be forgotten and proposes a discussion on how to approach queer theory from a decolonial point of view. There is still only a scant body of literature that systematizes and approaches these questions from a Latin American point of view; or, to use the term that gives this book its name, the “tropics.” The book points out the necessity of staying aware of the connections between western modernity and colonial practices.
The book therefore invites us to pass through borders, to question limits, and to allow ourselves to be affected by Others, a fundamental exercise in the context of social inequality as drastic as that in which the majority of the population live in Latin America and in the Global South in general. Theories, like bodies, travel; in being translated, they transform themselves. The movements and the bending of bodies and theories are disturbing and subversive. Queer in the Tropics arises from these translations, from this bending, and from these subversions.
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Book Title: Queer in the Tropics
Book Subtitle: Gender and Sexuality in the Global South
Authors: Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15074-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15073-0Published: 17 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15074-7Published: 11 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2212-6368
Series E-ISSN: 2212-6376
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 104
Topics: Queer Theory, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Gender and Sexuality