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Author Sánchez-Avella, César, author

Title Cultural activism around gender and sexualities in Colombia and Mexico : De un Mundo Raro / César Sánchez-Avella
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (approximately 225 pages) : illustrations
Series Global queer politics, 2569-1309
Global queer politics, 2569-1309
Contents Chapter 1:Introduction -- Chapter 2: Lia -- Chapter 3: Felipe -- Chapter 4: Manuel -- Chapter 5: Conclusion
Summary This book focuses on an underestimated alternative to the mainstream liberal rights-based approach: cultural activism. This political strategy deploys art and other creative techniques to support the quest for social justice. This work explores this approach's dynamics, strategies, and potential, presenting a qualitative case study of three cultural activists in Colombia and Mexico -Lia García, Felipe Osornio, and Manuel Parra-, including in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation of their artistic/activist work. Through their intervention in the realm of ordinary affects, these cultural producers create new affective climates for the experience of sexual and gender difference and develop new repertoires of affective response concerning identities usually seen as abject or worthy of social punishment. Strategies of cultural activism aim to subvert dominant representations and performances of marginalized subjectivities, to critique and subvert gender norms, to give visibility to non-hegemonic identities, to resist different forms of oppression and marginalization, and to prompt collective healing of wounds left by violence and discrimination
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 4, 2024)
Subject Social change -- Colombia
Social change -- Mexico
Social evolution.
Sexual minorities -- Colombia
Sexual minorities -- Mexico
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783031478550
303147855X