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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. A Middle-of-Nowhere Somewhere. - 2. From Terehell to Terenowhere: Place-making in Teresina. - 3. Chique Distinction in a Big Small Town. - 4. Nocturnal Bohemia. - 5. Black Sheep by Day. - 6. Friends of Dusk and Dawn. - 7. Epilogue.
