Queerly Cosmopolitan Bohemia and Belonging in a Brazilian Middle-of-Nowhere City /

• Main Author: Murphy, Timothy Eugene (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Ethnology.; Ethnography.; Sociology, Urban.; Gender identity.; Ethnology-Latin America.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Social Anthropology.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Gender and Sexuality.; Latin American Culture.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.