Author: Silvia Aguião
ISBN: 9788575114896
Page count: 396
Silvia Aguião presents us with a unique ethnography of the relationships through which subjects—and forms of subjection/subjectivation—are forged in the everyday life of an identity politics of a “participatory” nature. She constructs a panorama of state formation processes that, as the author emphasizes, are also processes of the formation of subjectivities, affections, and networks.
As important as the ethnographic content and the analysis of the LGBT “field” is the rigorous theoretical framework—especially, though not exclusively—in the use of texts from an anthropology of the state, testing and operationalizing them in an argumentative manner. And all of this comes to us through the vitality of a clear, direct, and concise text, while also dense, reflective, and unsettling.