Social networks and fields in negotiation: homosexuality and ways of agency in the articulation of certain markers of difference

• Grant number: 11/15981-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2012
• End date: February 28, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Populations
• Principal Investigator: Laura Moutinho da Silva
• Grantee: Marcio Bressiani Zamboni
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The objective of this project is to analyze the place of certain social markers of difference in the interactional dynamics and the life trajectories of a network of men and women in the age of 40/50 years who identify themselves as "gays" or "lésbicas" and belong to upper classes in São Paulo. More specifically, it's about inquiring how class, 'race', generation and seropositivity more or less rigorously sets some possibilities of agency, constraining, amplifying or even creating new "fields of manipulation" to which these individuals can resort. The field work will follow the ethnographic work carried out over three years in the context of two graduation-level research projects, including in-depth interviews in the format of life history and participant observation in situations of sociability.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

ZAMBONI, Marcio Bressiani. Heritage, distinction and desire: homosexuality in upper classes in the city of São Paulo. 2014. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.