Queerly Cosmopolitan [electronic resource] : Bohemia and Belonging in a Brazilian Middle-of-Nowhere City /
Murphy, Timothy Eugene.author.
An ethnography of urban citizenship, global belonging, and queerness in a rapidly growing provincial city in the Global South, Queerly Cosmopolitan explores how people develop a sense of belonging in a city understood by many to be “unimportant” and “in the middle of nowhere.” In his exploration of the city of Teresina and its inhabitants’ attempts to establish a sense of belonging and self-worth, Timothy Eugene Murphy creatively employs queer theory to investigate a community of bohemians. As he follows the participants through different realms of life—nocturnal bohemia, work, family, and intimate friendships—Murphy demonstrates how widely circulating cultural forms, from music to sexuality, offer upwardly mobile communities ways to fashion cosmopolitan lives in even the most peripheral locations. .
1. A Middle-of-Nowhere Somewhere -- 2. From Terehell to Terenowhere: Place-making in Teresina -- 3. Chique Distinction in a Big Small Town -- 4. Nocturnal Bohemia -- 5. Black Sheep by Day -- 6. Friends of Dusk and Dawn -- 7. Epilogue.
An ethnography of urban citizenship, global belonging, and queerness in a rapidly growing provincial city in the Global South, Queerly Cosmopolitan explores how people develop a sense of belonging in a city understood by many to be “unimportant” and “in the middle of nowhere.” In his exploration of the city of Teresina and its inhabitants’ attempts to establish a sense of belonging and self-worth, Timothy Eugene Murphy creatively employs queer theory to investigate a community of bohemians. As he follows the participants through different realms of life—nocturnal bohemia, work, family, and intimate friendships—Murphy demonstrates how widely circulating cultural forms, from music to sexuality, offer upwardly mobile communities ways to fashion cosmopolitan lives in even the most peripheral locations. .
Ethnology.
Ethnography.
Sociology, Urban.
Gender identity.
Ethnology-Latin America.
Social Anthropology.
Ethnography.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Gender and Sexuality.
Latin American Culture.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.