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Emergent SpacesBelonging through Bohemia: Queer Timespace and Possibility in Teresina, Brazil

Emergent Spaces: Belonging through Bohemia: Queer Timespace and Possibility in Teresina, Brazil [Teresina, the capital city of one of Brazil’s poorest states, is growing rapidly. When the city’s population growth is met with economic prosperity, practices of distinction proliferate among its large and expanding middle class in an effort to establish a sense of place and belonging. It is within this context that a community of bohemians creates an emergent timespace of possibility to challenge convention, to experiment with new perceptions, self-presentations, and relationships, and to build community. Forged around an ethos of queerness, Teresina’s bohemia manifests only at night and in shifting ordinary locations around the city that are undetectable by the local mainstream. This chapter focuses on possibilities and challenges that arise when outsiders with a fascination for unconventional ways of life attempt to claim a place for themselves in a provincial city undergoing acute social and cultural transformation.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Emergent SpacesBelonging through Bohemia: Queer Timespace and Possibility in Teresina, Brazil

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Kuppinger, Petra
Murphy, Timothy E.
Emergent Spaces — Jan 1, 2022
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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-84378-6
Pages
183 –205
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-84379-3_10
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Abstract

[Teresina, the capital city of one of Brazil’s poorest states, is growing rapidly. When the city’s population growth is met with economic prosperity, practices of distinction proliferate among its large and expanding middle class in an effort to establish a sense of place and belonging. It is within this context that a community of bohemians creates an emergent timespace of possibility to challenge convention, to experiment with new perceptions, self-presentations, and relationships, and to build community. Forged around an ethos of queerness, Teresina’s bohemia manifests only at night and in shifting ordinary locations around the city that are undetectable by the local mainstream. This chapter focuses on possibilities and challenges that arise when outsiders with a fascination for unconventional ways of life attempt to claim a place for themselves in a provincial city undergoing acute social and cultural transformation.]

Published: Jan 1, 2022

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