NuSEX
The Center for the Study of Bodies, Gender and Sexuality carries the mark of dissent from its birth due to the fertility of this notion in queer studies and politics, which we find extremely interesting, and due to the fact that it leads us to a specific research agenda aiming to explore experiences of sex/gender territories that operate at the hinge of erotic norms and unintelligible body configurations, thus constituting expressions, desires, pleasures and disturbing practices. How are they constituted? How are they experienced? Do they announce new sexual and identity categories? How are norms and hierarchies organized within such transgressive appeals? In this path, we are moved by a clear political and methodological impetus: contributing to a radical theory of sex in order to create liberating thought on sex. Such a theory, according to Gayle Rubbin, requires “identifying, describing, explaining and denouncing erotic injustice and sexual oppression”
The NuSEX perspective on modes of gender regulation, following the premises of the feminist agenda, does not solely manifest its preoccupation with the way subjects resist to rules and subvert norms, but also seeks to investigate the arts of lived experience in between such norms, or the ways subjects act within the norms they inhabit, following the inspiration of Saba Mahmood´s perspective. In other words, if notions as abjection and dissent enable us to highlight the existence of rules, lives, pleasures and relationships at the margins of the social, we are also interesting to explore the ways subjects move their worlds within the norms and governments that constitute them. We add to our perspective the analysis of gender and sexuality always at the intersection with other social markers of difference, such as race, class and generation (amongst others), seeking to examine how these social characteristics are mutually constructed and articulated in the conformation of differences, subject positions and social inequality.
The anthropology of health, the State, emotions, modes of social regulation, urban and ethnic-racial relations dialogue with and fed NuSEC views.
Coordinators:
María Elvira Díaz Benítez
Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte
Adriana Vianna
The Center for the Study of Bodies, Gender and Sexuality carries the mark of dissent from its birth due to the fertility of this notion in queer studies and politics, which we find extremely interesting, and due to the fact that it leads us to a specific research agenda aiming to explore experiences of sex/gender territories that operate at the hinge of erotic norms and unintelligible body configurations, thus constituting expressions, desires, pleasures and disturbing practices. How are they constituted? How are they experienced? Do they announce new sexual and identity categories? How are norms and hierarchies organized within such transgressive appeals? In this path, we are moved by a clear political and methodological impetus: contributing to a radical theory of sex in order to create liberating thought on sex. Such a theory, according to Gayle Rubbin, requires “identifying, describing, explaining and denouncing erotic injustice and sexual oppression”
The NuSEX perspective on modes of gender regulation, following the premises of the feminist agenda, does not solely manifest its preoccupation with the way subjects resist to rules and subvert norms, but also seeks to investigate the arts of lived experience in between such norms, or the ways subjects act within the norms they inhabit, following the inspiration of Saba Mahmood´s perspective. In other words, if notions as abjection and dissent enable us to highlight the existence of rules, lives, pleasures and relationships at the margins of the social, we are also interesting to explore the ways subjects move their worlds within the norms and governments that constitute them. We add to our perspective the analysis of gender and sexuality always at the intersection with other social markers of difference, such as race, class and generation (amongst others), seeking to examine how these social characteristics are mutually constructed and articulated in the conformation of differences, subject positions and social inequality.
The anthropology of health, the State, emotions, modes of social regulation, urban and ethnic-racial relations dialogue with and fed NuSEC views.
Coordinators:
María Elvira Díaz Benítez
Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte
Adriana Vianna
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Researchers:
Bárbara Gomes Pires (PPGAS/MN) Carolina Castellitti (PPGAS/MN) Carolina Maria (PPGAS/MN) Camila Fernandes (PPGAS/MN) Lucas Bilate (PPGAS/MN) Lucas Freire (PPGAS/MN) Erica Sarmet (PPGCOM/UFF) Everton Rangel (PPGAS/MN) Fátima Lima (PIPGLA/UFRJ) Felipe Magaldi (PPGAS/MN) José Ramón Díaz (PPGCOM/UFF) |
Lorena Mochel (PPGAS/MN) Michel Carvalho (PPGSA/IFCS/UFRJ) Natânia Lopes (PPCIS/UERJ) Nathalia Gonçales (PPGAS/MN) Nathanael Araujo (PPGCS/UFRRJ) Oswaldo Zampiroli (PPGAS/MN) Ricardo Caramillo (PPGCS/UFRRJ) Thiago Soliva (PPGSA/IFCS/UFRJ) Victor Hugo Barreto (PPGA/UFF) Vinicius Lima (FIOCRUZ) |
