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Queerly Cosmopolitan Bohemia and Belonging in a Brazilian Middle-of-Nowhere City /
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...
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| Format: | e-Book |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing :
2019.
Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
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| Online Access: | Full-text access |
| Summary: | 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. . |
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| Physical Description: | XIV, 157 p. 29 illus. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9783030002961 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-00296-1 |