page_title: Richard Miskolci
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caption_attribution_description: English: Brazilian Sociologist
context_page_description: Richard Miskolci is a Brazilian sociologist. His work articulates Social Science's tradition with Queer Theory and Post-Colonial Studies. He is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UNIFESP, Brazil, and also a researcher of CNPq. Miskolci is the leader of the Research Center Quereres - Núcleo de Pesquisas em Diferenças, Direitos Humanos e Saúde and also coordinates the area of Human and Social Sciences at the Department of Social Medicine.
  He initiated his career dealing with Critical Theory, but the contact with the works of Michel Foucault and Cultural Studies attracted his attention to the field of differences. Miskolci has researched in Germany and was a Student-at-large in the humanities at the University of Chicago before receiving his PhD in Sociology from University of São Paulo. He got tenured as a professor of sociology at UFSCar Federal University of São Carlos where he worked between 2004 and 2018.
  Miskolci has contributed to disseminate Queer Theory in the Brazilian academic field in a dialogue with its own tradition of sexuality studies, especially those created under the influence of Néstor Perlongher's work.
context_section_description: Richard Miskolci is a Brazilian sociologist. His work articulates Social Science's tradition with Queer Theory and Post-Colonial Studies. He is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UNIFESP (Federal University of São Paulo) (Federal University of São Paulo), Brazil, and also a researcher of CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development).  Miskolci is the leader of the Research Center Quereres - Núcleo de Pesquisas em Diferenças, Direitos Humanos e Saúde and also coordinates the area of Human and Social Sciences at the Department of Social Medicine.
  He initiated his career dealing with Critical Theory, but the contact with the works of Michel Foucault and Cultural Studies attracted his attention to the field of differences. Miskolci has researched in Germany and was a Student-at-large in the humanities at the University of Chicago before receiving his PhD in Sociology from University of São Paulo (2001). He got tenured as a professor of sociology at UFSCar Federal University of São Carlos where he worked between 2004 and 2018.
  Miskolci has contributed to disseminate Queer Theory in the Brazilian academic field in a dialogue with its own tradition of sexuality studies, especially those created under the influence of Néstor Perlongher's work. Miskolci has edited (with Júlio Assis Simões) the first Brazilian compilation of Queer Studies. "Dissent Sexualities" (2007) received the Award Citizenship in Respect to Diversity (2008).
  Brazilian sexuality studies and activism is marked by identitarian tendences while Miskolci's work supports a non-identitary perspective based on queer and gender theories. Gender defies identity as a concept that underlines the importance of social structures (both cultural and historical ones) defining our desires and self-comprehension. Queer theory challenges normality and its a priori expectations. Miskolci's work stands in opposition to crude identity politics as well to studies based on the illusion of a stable subject/identity (Miskolci, 2009).
  Later, Miskolci has worked in a senior research with David M. Halperin to develop the methodology for his historical research on nation and sexuality in the Brazilian fin de siècle. The research was conducted during over 10 years with different grants until it became a book: "O Desejo da Nação: masculinidade e branquitude no Brasil de fins do XIX" (2012). In this work, he analyses the Brazilian elite project of creating a nation with European immigrants and also disciplining the local population.  The ideals of whiteness and masculinity of the ruling elite directed this authoritarina project during the first decades of the Brazilian Republic (proclaimed in 1889).
  In 2011, Miskolci was one of the creators of Contemporânea - Revista de Sociologia da UFSCar. Between 2015 and 2018 he worked in the coordination of Sociology at CAPES, the Brazilian agency that manages the graduate system. He is also a member of the Research Committee Futures Research of the International Sociological Association (ISA) and of the International Relations Committee of the Brazilian Sociological Society (SBS). With fellow members Soraya Cortês and Celi Scalon, Miskolci was one of the founders of Sociologies in Dialogue, the society's international journal.
  Miskolci has researched the contemporary use of digital media in Brazilian society since 2007. This research, sponsored by CNPq, became his main area of interest. In 2016 he has organized the first Brazilian compilation on Digital Sociology and in 2017 published "Desejos Digitais: uma análise sociológica da busca por parceiros on-line", a book that summarizes his researchers about how homosexual men use digital media to search for sexual partners. According to the book, ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) have (re)shaped homosexual subjectivities since the adoption of commercial Internet in the mid 1990s creating a new homosexual ethos based on neoliberal values like competition and entrepreneurship. The old cruising was replaced by the online (sexual) market in which new homosexual subject
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