ISBN-13: 9783030002954 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 157 str.
Queerly Cosmopolitan offers a rare anthropological glimpse of a now common global condition: middle-class life in the fast-growing, lower-tier cities of the developing world. How do people construct a sense of belonging and self-worth in a place that, in the Brazilian national imagination, is a provincial "nowhere"? Creatively employing queer theory, Murphy follows an aspirational avant-garde who attempt to transform their command over global cosmopolitan styles, practices, and norms into the means of claiming a valued place within the local social universe. Murphy deftly demonstrates how widely circulating global cultural forms-from music to sexualities-offer upwardly-mobile communities ways to fashion cosmopolitan lives in even the most peripheral locations.