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A Terreiro That’s “Too Young, Too gay”: Technologies of Persistence and growth in the W/world

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Author(s):
José Miguel Nieto Olivar [1]
Total Authors: 1
Affiliation:
[1] Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Saúde Pública. Departamento de Saúde e Sociedade - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 1
Document type: Journal article
Source: Vibrant; v. 20, 2023-06-30.
Abstract

Abstract In this manuscript I present how in the city of Tabatinga (AM) -- on the triple border between Brazil, Peru, and Colombia -- the Father Jairo and His Children Network are engaged in a process of persistence, care, and growth in order to traverse a World that presents itself as a threat to their lives and their worlds. This process involves the consolidation of a technology of housing in the World, empowered by the grammar of Umbanda/Macumba, connected with youth, gender, and (homo)sexuality. Its material “ground” is the process of construction of the group’s terreiro. Based on 10 years of ethnography and in dialogue with theoretical discussions regarding cosmopolitics, materialities, and W/world(s) in de/anti/contracolonial perspectives, I argue that through this process, the network has built a world-for-them/us (wƒ#) that enables it to cross the World-as-Threat (WƒT) and to recall the World-as-struggle (W/s): WƒT>>wƒ#<<W/s. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 13/26826-2 - Gender in the border and transborder territories at the Brazilian Amazon
Grantee:José Miguel Nieto Olivar
Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants
FAPESP's process: 19/01714-3 - Through the limit: differentiation, relationship and care practices in critical contexts in the Amazon frontier: emphasis on sexuality, gender, life cycles and ethnicity
Grantee:José Miguel Nieto Olivar
Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
FAPESP's process: 21/06897-9 - Cosmopolitics of care in the end of the world: gender, borders, and pluri-epistemic assemblages with public health
Grantee:José Miguel Nieto Olivar
Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants - Phase 2