Queerly Cosmopolitan: Bohemia and Belonging in a Brazilian Middle-Of-Nowhere City (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030002954)

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.

Author: Timothy Eugene Murphy
ISBN-10: 3030002950
ISBN-13: 9783030002954
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Language: English
Published: 10/20/2018
Pages: 157
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d