After Difference

Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory

Paolo Heywood (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

180 Seiten

2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-452-4 (ISBN)

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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 activists in this book value difference as something that must be produced, in opposition to the identity politics they find around them. Conversely, anthropologists find difference in the world around them, and seek to produce an identity 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 two conceptions of difference whilst simultaneously holding them apart.

Paolo Heywood is an assistant professor at Durham University.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I

Chapter 1. Equivocal Locations

Chapter 2. The Anthropology of (Double) Morality

PART II

Chapter 3. Agreeing to Disagree

Chapter 4. Different Differences

PART III

Chapter 5. Why Will Recursivity Run Out of Steam?

Chapter 6. Making Difference

Conclusion

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.06.2022
Reihe/Serie	WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
Zusatzinfo	3 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-80073-452-2 / 1800734522
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-452-4 / 9781800734524
Zustand	Neuware