Overview
- Addresses the contemporary social mobilizations around gender and sexualities in Latin America
- Provides a critical analysis of legal and policy-making strategies dominant within the LGBTI movement in Latin America
- Analyses the role and extent of cultural activism as a strategy for social change
Part of the book series: Global Queer Politics (GQP)
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This book focuses on an underestimated alternative to the mainstream liberal rights-based approach: cultural activism. This political strategy deploys art and other creative techniques to support the quest for social justice. This work explores this approach's dynamics, strategies, and potential, presenting a qualitative case study of three cultural activists in Colombia and Mexico -Lia García, Felipe Osornio, and Manuel Parra-, including in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation of their artistic/activist work.
Through their intervention in the realm of ordinary affects, these cultural producers create new affective climates for the experience of sexual and gender difference and develop new repertoires of affective response concerning identities usually seen as abject or worthy of social punishment. Strategies of cultural activism aim to subvert dominant representations and performances of marginalized subjectivities, to critique and subvert gender norms, to give visibility to non-hegemonic identities, to resist different forms of oppression and marginalization, and to prompt collective healing of wounds left by violence and discrimination.
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultural Activism around Gender and Sexualities in Colombia and Mexico
Book Subtitle: De un Mundo Raro
Authors: César Sánchez-Avella
Series Title: Global Queer Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47855-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-47854-3Published: 07 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-47857-4Published: 07 April 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-47855-0Published: 31 March 2024
Series ISSN: 2569-1317
Series E-ISSN: 2569-1309
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 239
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Science, Politics and Gender, Latin American Culture, Gender Studies