Kanai, J.M. (2014) Buenos aires beyond (Homo) sexualized urban entrepreneurialism: The geographies of queered tango. Antipode, 47 (3). 652 -670. ISSN 0066-4812
Abstract
This paper discusses (homo)sexualization as entrepreneurial strategy in Buenos Aires. City-marketing capitalizes on Buenos Aires' reputed passion and tolerance. Yet homonormative framings collide with politicized cultures of sexual dissidence. Cultural entrepreneurialism promotes profit-making sexual diversity, but social actors also construct their queerness outside, even in opposition to, market-driven urbanism. This paper argues that queered tango practices differ from those of mainstream LGBT circuits and coalesce with those who contest the genre's touristification, designed to trigger selective redevelopment. The paper first examines the explanatory purchase of cultural entrepreneurialism and homonormativity outside Euro-America. Empirical sections then show that the redefinition/re-territorialization of gayness aggravates socio-spatial fragmentation, while governmental appropriations of tango legitimize exclusionary world-class-city politics. Nevertheless, the paper's first-person ethnography of queer tango uncovers territories of radical difference and trans-local solidarity networks. The paper ends by suggesting the need for further research into the conflictive intersections between urban globalization and globalizing queerness.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014 The Author. Antipode © 2014 Antipode Foundation Ltd. |
Keywords: | neoliberal urbanism; Latin America; geographies of sexualities; homonormativity; Argentina |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 13 Jan 2016 16:23 |
Last Modified: | 11 Mar 2016 06:34 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/anti.12120 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/anti.12120 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:93301 |