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Refracted modernities: Homosexuality and party politics in Brazil and Mexico.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Refracted modernities: Homosexuality and party politics in Brazil and Mexico.
Author:	de la Dehesa, Rafael Jacob.
Description:	338 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Jorge Dominguez.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-04, Section: A, page: 1481.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-04A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3173888
ISBN:	9780542113352

Refracted modernities: Homosexuality and party politics in Brazil and Mexico.
de la Dehesa, Rafael Jacob.

Refracted modernities: Homosexuality and party politics in Brazil and Mexico. - 338 p.

Adviser: Jorge Dominguez.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2005.

This dissertation examines the trajectory of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered) activism in Latin America's two largest formal democracies, Brazil and Mexico, specifically focusing on activists' alliances with political parties and engagement with legislatures. Underscoring variable national imprints on evolving transnational norms inscribing sexuality within a broader paradigm of liberal citizenship, the work can thus be framed as a study of variations on a transnational theme of liberal modernity that encompasses three levels of analysis. First, drawing on global culture theory, I trace the emergence of certain common trends in activists' relationships with political parties and legislatures over time, shaping both their priority demands of the state and the state's response to them. Second, against this backdrop, however, I note significant differences in Brazilian and Mexican activists' prevailing strategies in approaching the partisan arena, both in terms of the alliances they crafted and their discursive extensions, including the construction of collective political identities to advance their claims. To explore these differences, I draw on symbolic interactionism, focusing on the relationship between changing possibilities for representation, the institutionalization of party actors' audience calculations, and evolving discursive repertoires at the national and transnational levels. I argue that transnational liberal norms, while fostering common trends, have been variably refracted across national boundaries in multiple ways, shaped in part by the variable institutionalization of the audience costs that party actors attached to movement demands. Third, I argue that this reinscription of sexuality in the public sphere should itself be read critically, with attention to its embeddedness in society and its intersections with arrangements of power in the private sphere. Drawing on longstanding critiques of liberal citizenship, I thus argue that the transnational trends noted above have been variably refracted not only across national but also subnational boundaries like race, gender, region, and class. The dissertation is based on approximately 14 months of fieldwork in Brazil and Mexico, each. This work included over 100 interviews of social movement activists, political party and state actors, other relevant allies, and some movement opponents as well as extensive primary research in movement, state, and party archives.

ISBN: 9780542113352Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

Refracted modernities: Homosexuality and party politics in Brazil and Mexico.
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