After Difference
Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory
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2018
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-786-4 (ISBN)
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-786-4 (ISBN)
This book is a contribution to the anthropology of Italy and of Europe as an ethnography of queer activism in Bologna; and, at the same time, it is an intervention in a set of ongoing theoretical debates in anthropology surrounding the perennial problem of the relationship between ethnographic data and anthropological analysis.
Queer activism and anthropology are both fundamentally concerned with the concept of difference. Yet they are so in fundamentally different ways. The Italian queer activist groups in this book value difference as something that must be produced, in opposition to the identity politics they find around them. Conversely, anthropologists have often been concerned with collapsing differences, in particular with collapsing the difference between anthropological theory and the ethnographic material it elucidates. This book describes problems faced by an activist `politics of difference', and issues concerning the identity of anthropological reflection itself - connecting these two conceptions of difference whilst simultaneously holding them apart.
Queer activism and anthropology are both fundamentally concerned with the concept of difference. Yet they are so in fundamentally different ways. The Italian queer activist groups in this book value difference as something that must be produced, in opposition to the identity politics they find around them. Conversely, anthropologists have often been concerned with collapsing differences, in particular with collapsing the difference between anthropological theory and the ethnographic material it elucidates. This book describes problems faced by an activist `politics of difference', and issues concerning the identity of anthropological reflection itself - connecting these two conceptions of difference whilst simultaneously holding them apart.
Paolo Heywood is an Affiliated Lecturer and Research Associate at the Division of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, and a Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College, Cambridge.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Equivocal locations: being 'red' in ';Red Bologna'
Chapter 2. The anthropology of (double) morality
Chapter 3. Agreeing to disagree: dialogues with the Church
Chapter 4. Different differences: queer activism and the 2012 Italian National Pride
Chapter 5. Why will recursivity run out of steam?
Chapter 6. Making difference
Conclusion
References
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.02.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Wyse Series in Social Anthropology ; 6 |
| Zusatzinfo | 3 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78533-786-6 / 1785337866 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78533-786-4 / 9781785337864 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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