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Queer in the Tropics

Gender and Sexuality in the Global South

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Authors:
  1. Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira

    1. Department of Preventive Medicine, Federal University of Sao Paulo (Unifesp), São Paulo, Brazil

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  • 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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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira
    Pages 1-9

  3. In and Around Life

    • Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira
    Pages 11-28

  4. Queer in the Tropics

    • Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira
    Pages 29-46

  5. Decolonial Queer

    • Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira
    Pages 47-68

  6. On the Poetics of Incorporation

    • Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira
    Pages 69-90

  7. Judith Butler and the Pomba-Gira

    • Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira
    Pages 91-99

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 101-104
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About this book

This book aims to reflect on how to translate “queer” in the context of Latin America. Queer theory is becoming consolidated on an international scale as an effort to understand dissident bodies and their inventions. But how can we utilize such a rich body of literature and proposals without merely applying in the Global South what has been formulated in the Global North?

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Preventive Medicine, Federal University of Sao Paulo (Unifesp), São Paulo, Brazil

    Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira

About the author

​Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira is Associate Professor of the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). Professor of the Graduate Program in Collective Health at UNIFESP. Master’s degree in Anthropology at the University of Brasília (1996), PhD in Anthropology at the University of Brasília (2001), and post-doctoral fellow at the University of Barcelona (2001-2002). Visiting post-doctoral researcher at the University of Barcelona. Research Fellow in Spain at Universidad Rovira y Virgili through Fundación Carolina. Member of editorial boards of numerous periodical publications. Editor-in-Chief of "Revista Interface". Recipient of the Anthropology and Human Rights Prize of the Brazilian Anthropology Association (2002). Responsible for support of active research projects at the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). Author of books "O terror e a dádiva" (The Terror and the Gift – 2004) and "De corpos e travessias" (Of Bodies and Crossings – 2014), as well as articles published in journals in Brazil and internationally. Active focus on studies of the body, health, and sickness.

Bibliographic Information

  • 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

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