Cultural Activism around Gender and Sexualities in Colombia and Mexico

De un Mundo Raro
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-47854-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 239 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Global Queer Politics

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sánchez-Avella, César

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1:Introduction.- Chapter 2: Lia.- Chapter 3: Felipe.- Chapter 4: Manuel.- Chapter 5: Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

César Sánchez-Avella was Senior Lecturer of Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia. He was also a Coordinator from PLURALES  Centro Rosarista  de Diversidad Equidad e Inclusión . Universidad del Rosario, Colombia.