Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America

MACÓN, CECILIA; SOLANA, MARIELA; VACAREZZA, NAYLA

Palgrave Macmillan

Año: 2021 p. 250

978-3-030-59368-1

The aim of this book is to gather contributions from an emergent field of thinking and knowledge production in Latin America that emphasizes the significance of affects, feelings and emotions in how we think about politics, gender and sexuality. Considering the complex and even contradictory social processes that Latin America is experiencing today -such as the expansion ofFeminist and LGBTQ movements and the development of reactionary and neoliberal forces-many Latin American authors are turning to affect to find a key to understand our present situation, to revisit our history, and to imagine new possibilities for the future. This tendency, even if it is sometimes inspired by the theoretical work produced in Europe and the US, has shown such a specificity and sometimes departure from northern productions that it compels us to focus more deeply into its own arguments, methods, and critical contributions. This book will solicit essays that explore the particularities of Latin American ways of thinking about affect and how they can shed new light into our understanding of, gender, sexuality and politics.