Description
| Product ID: | 9781800734524 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | WYSE Series in Social Anthropology |
| Title: | After Difference |
| Subtitle: | Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory |
| Authors: | Author: Paolo Heywood |
| Page Count: | 180 |
| Subjects: | LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Gay & Lesbian studies, Anthropology, Anthropology, Italy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book is a contribution to the anthropology of Italy and of Europe as an ethnography of queer activism in Bologna; and, at the same time, it is an intervention in a set of ongoing theoretical debates in anthropology surrounding the perennial problem of the relationship between ethnographic data and anthropological analysis. Queer activism and anthropology are both fundamentally concerned with the concept of difference. Yet they are so in fundamentally different ways. The Italian queer activists in this book value difference as something that must be produced, in opposition to the identity politics they find around them. Conversely, anthropologists find difference in the world around them, and seek to produce an identity between anthropological theory and the ethnographic material it elucidates. This book describes problems faced by an activist "politics of difference," and issues concerning the identity of anthropological reflection itself—connecting two conceptions of difference whilst simultaneously holding them apart. |
| Imprint Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Publisher Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-07-08 |
