Queer sous les tropiques : quand les théories voyagent

This article aims to problematize both the strength of queer theory and its possible limits. It discusses the following questions: are we facing another center to periphery theory (that reinscribes the center-periphery division in other colors)? Does the very persistence of the term in English signa...

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Main Author: Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Genre, Sexualité et Société
Series:Genre, Sexualité et Société
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/gss/3659
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Summary:This article aims to problematize both the strength of queer theory and its possible limits. It discusses the following questions: are we facing another center to periphery theory (that reinscribes the center-periphery division in other colors)? Does the very persistence of the term in English signal a geopolitics of knowledge in which some formulate theories that others apply? Could a queer political gesture be open to other forms of knowledge or are we trapped in a thinking that forbids anything new? Finally, how do we think queer in the tropics?
ISSN:2104-3736