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Gender, Development and Social Change
Series Editor
Wendy Harcourt, The International Institute of Social
Studies, Erasmus University, The Hague, The NetherlandsThe Gender, Development and Social Change series brings together path- breaking writing from gender scholars and activist researchers who are engaged in development as a process of transformation and change. The series pinpoints where gender and development analysis and practice are creating major ‘change moments’. Multidisciplinary in scope, it features some of the most important and innovative gender perspectives on devel- opment knowledge, policy and social change. The distinctive feature of the series is its dual nature: to publish both scholarly research on key issues informing the gender and development agenda as well as featuring young scholars and activists’ accounts of how gender analysis and prac- tice is shaping political and social development processes. The authors aim to capture innovative thinking on a range of hot spot gender and development debates from women’s lives on the margins to high level global politics. Each book pivots around a key ‘social change’ moment or process conceptually envisaged from an intersectional, gender and rights based approach to development. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14999
Cecilia Macón · Mariela Solana ·
Nayla Luz Vacarezza
Editors
Affect, Gender
and Sexuality in Latin
AmericaEditors
Cecilia Macón Mariela Solana
University of Buenos Aires National Council for Scientific and
Buenos Aires, Argentina Technical Research
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nayla Luz Vacarezza
National Council for Scientific and
Technical Research
Buenos Aires, Argentina
ISSN 2730-7328 ISSN 2730-7336 (electronic)
Gender, Development and Social Change
ISBN 978-3-030-59368-1 ISBN 978-3-030-59369-8 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59369-8
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We would like to note that this compilation would never have seen the
light if not for Alina Yurova, Palgrave’s committed editor who believed
right from the start that this book would spark a fruitful dialogue for the
field. We would also like to thank the anonymous readers for their remarks
and the Universidad de Buenos Aires [University of Buenos Aires] and
Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica [National Agency
for Scientific and Technological Promotion] for the funding and institu-
tional support for our work. Most of the texts included in this book were
presented at the IV International Thinking Affect Symposium (Buenos
Aires, November 2018), devoted to the impact of the new theories of
affect in the humanities and social sciences. The discussions and debates at
this meeting were fundamental for helping reformulate the works herein
and all of the contributors to this book are very thankful.
vContents
1 Introduction: Feeling Our Way Through Latin
America 1
Cecilia Macón, Mariela Solana, and Nayla Luz Vacarezza
Part I The Public Mobilization of Affect: Politics and
Activism
2 Depicting “Gender Ideology” as Affective
and Arbitrary: Organized Actions Against Sexual
and Gender Rights in Latin America Today 19
Daniela Losiggio
3 White Scarves and Green Scarves. The Affective
Temporality of #QueSeaLey [#MakeItLaw]
as Fourth-Wave Feminism 41
Cecilia Macón
4 The Green Scarf for Abortion Rights: Affective
Contagion and Artistic Reinventions of Movement
Symbols 63
Nayla Luz Vacarezza
5 Affective Atmospheres and the Construction of Senses
and Practices of Citizenship in Ecuador 87
Virginia Villamediana
viiviii CONTENTS
6 The Politics of Sensibility and the Colonization
of Gender. (a.k.a. Men Hate Women) 109
Ali Lara
Part II Affective Criticism: Visual Culture, Arts, and
Literature
7 Beyond the Human: Maternity, Affect, and Monstrous
Lives in the Narrative of Argentine Writer Samanta
Schweblin 127
Cynthia Francica
8 Spiritism as Artistic, Affective, and Feminist Agency:
The Case of the Morla Sisters in Chile 151
Macarena Urzúa Opazo
9 Queer Temporalities, Fluid Encounters: Feeling
Utopia in Marcelo Caetano’s Body Electric 179
Daniel Kveller
10 Mapping the Failure: A Dissident Narrative
of Homoerotic Affections in Carlos Correas 197
Eduardo Mattio
11 Back to the Party: Affects, Relationships,
and Encounters 215
Denilson Lopes
Part III Emotions in Time: History, Memory, and
Temporality
12 Popular Songs of Antonio Vanegas Arroyo:
Emotionology of Love in Mexico 1880–1911 231
Oliva López Sánchez and Edith Flores Pérez
13 Emotional Education: Creating a Modern
Child–Adult Relationship in Colombia 255
Zandra Pedraza
14 Nostalgia as Historical Critique: Time and Desire
in Alejandro Modarelli’s Rosa Prepucio 275
Mariela SolanaCONTENTS ix
15 Intoxicated Stories and Stained Bodies: Muddy
Methodologies in the Oral History of Queer Politics
of the Global South 295
Nicolás Cuello
Index 317Notes on Contributors
Nicolás Cuello is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the National Scien-
tific and Technical Research Council in Argentina. Also, he is a Ph.D.
candidate in Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
He is affiliated to the Gino Germani Research Institute at UBA and
also works as an Assistant Professor at the National University of the
Arts. His work focuses on the intersection of artistic practices, queer
politics, critical representations of negative emotions, and alternative
graphic cultures in Argentina. As an archivist he is part of the indepen-
dent initiative Archive of Underground Cultures. He is co-author of the
book Ninguna linea recta. Contraculturas punks y políticas sexuales en
Argentina (1984–2007).
Edith Flores Pérez is a Full-Time Professor and Researcher at the
Department of Education and Communication of the Metropolitan
Autonomous University (UAM), unit Xochimilco. She has a Ph.D. in
Social Psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico
(UNAM), where she also completed a post-doctoral stay in the “Sub-
jectivity and Society Program.” Since 2014 she is a member of the
National Network of Researchers in Sociocultural Studies of Emotions
(RENISCE). Dr. Flores research interests are: social psychology of
everyday life; qualitative methodologies; body, gender, and sexuality;
feminist geographies and sexual violence, and affectivity, emotions and
social sensibilities. She has been awarded the “Desirable Profile PROMEP
xixii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 2018–2021.” Currently, she coordinates the academic group “The social production of the body, emotions, senses and affectivity.” Cynthia Francica is Director of the M.A. in Comparative Literature and Assistant Professor in the Literature Department at Adolfo Ibáñez University in Santiago, Chile. There, she works as a Researcher at the Center for American Studies (CEA), housed at the College of Liberal Arts. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from The University of Texas at Austin. Her main research fields are gender and sexuality studies, feminist theory, affect studies, new materialisms, and the post-human in contemporary literature and visual arts. She has published in diverse media, including the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, e-misférica, Estudios Filológicos, and Alter/nativas: Latin American Cultural Studies Journal. Daniel Kveller is a Ph.D. candidate in Social Psychology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He is affiliated to the Research Center on Sexuality and Gender Relations at the same university (NUPSEX-UFRGS). His main research fields are gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and psychoanalysis. He is the Author of Vocês estão vivos? Fragmentos sobre trauma, memória e herança (2018) and co- editor of Descriminalização do cuidado: Políticas, cenários, experiências em redução de danos (2017). Ali Lara is Doctor in Social Psychology by the Autonomous University of Barcelona and currently Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of East London. His research interests revolve around decolonial knowl- edge, social studies of the body, affect studies, and in general speculative philosophy-based approaches to the study of the body. His work has been published in journals such as Theory & Psychology, Subjectivity, The Senses & Society, Capacious, etc. His recent book Digesting Reality by Rout- ledge proposes a multidimensional approach to everyday practices such as eating and drinking. Denilson Lopes is an Associate Professor at the School of Communica- tions at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He is the author of Afetos, Experiências e Encontros com Filmes Brasileiros Contemporâneos (São Paulo: Hucitec, 2016), No Coração do Mundo: Paisagens Transcul- turais (Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 2012), A Delicadeza: Estética, Experiência e Paisagens (Brasília: EdUnB, 2007), O Homem que Amava Rapazes e
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS xiii Outros Ensaios (Rio de Janeiro: Aeroplano, 2002), Nós os Mortos: Melan- colia e Neo-Barroco (Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, 1999), co-editor of Imagem e Diversidade Sexual (São Paulo: Nojosa, 2004), organizer of O Cinema dos Anos 90 (Chapecó: Argos, 2005), Cinema, Globalização e Intercul- turalidade (Chapecó, Argos, 2010), and Silviano Santiago y Los Estu- dios Latinoamericanos (Pittsburgh, Iberoamericana, 2015). He also wrote Inúteis, Frívolos e Distantes: À Procura dos Dândis (Rio de Janeiro: Mauad, 2019) with André Antônio Barbosa, Pedro Pinheiro Neves e Ricardo Duarte Filho. Oliva López Sánchez is a Full Professor in the Faculty of Higher Studies Iztalaca of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She has a Ph.D. in Anthropology with specialty in Medical Anthropology from Centro de Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS-DF). She is the co-Coordinator of the National Network of Researchers in Sociocul- tural Studies of Emotions (RENISCE), Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and the National System of Researchers of the National Council of Science and Technology, level II. Her areas of research are: Mental health and medical anthropology, and interdisciplinary studies of emotions and the body with a gender perspective. She is Author of the books Extravíos del alma Mexicana: Patologización de las emociones en los diagnósticos psiquiátricos 1900–1940 (2019), La pérdida del paraíso: El lugar de las emociones en la sociedad mexicana 1900–1950, El dolor de Eva: La profesionalización del saber médico en torno al cuerpo femenino en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX en México, and others titles. Daniela Losiggio holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Univer- sity of Buenos Aires (UBA). She is a Professor of the course Gender, Public Policy, and Human Rights at National University Arturo Jauretche (UNAJ) and the course Theories about Power at UBA. She is a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council and coordinates the Gender Studies Program at UNAJ. Cecilia Macón is Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Buenos Aires, and holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy (Univer- sity of Buenos Aires) and a Msc. in Political Theory (London School of Economics and Political Science). She was Visiting Researcher at New York University in 2017. Sexual Violence in the Argentinean Crimes Against Humanity Trials. Rethinking Victimhood (2016), devoted to the analysis played by affect in testimonies of sexual violence, is her first
xiv NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS authored book. She has co-edited the books Pretérito Indefinido, Afectos Políticos and Mapas de la transición, and edited Trabajos de la memoria and Pensar la democracia. She has published extensively in journals such as Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Historien, Journal of Romance Studies, etc. Since 2009 she leads SEGAP, an interdisciplinary research group devoted to the study affect, gender and politics based in the University of Buenos Aires. Eduardo Mattio holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the National Univer- sity of Córdoba (UNC, Argentina). He is an Assistant Professor of Ethics at the School of Philosophy and Researcher in the area of Feminisms, Gender, and Sexualities (FemGeS) at the María Saleme de Burnichon Research Center of the School of Philosophy and Humanities (CIFFyH), UNC. He directs the research project “Emotions, temporalities, images: towards a critique of neoliberal sensibility” (CIFFyH, UNC). His recent research work deals with affective grammars and sexual dissidence within the framework of neoliberal governmentality. He is co-author of the book Cuerpos, historicidad y religión. Reflexiones para una cultura postsecular (2013). Zandra Pedraza is Full Professor at the University of the Andes in Bogotá. She holds a Ph.D. from the Freie Universität Berlin. Her main research fields are body studies and biopolitics, education and the modern/contemporary subject, historical and pedagogical Anthropology, modernity and the human being in Latin America. She is the co-editor of Al otro lado del cuerpo. Estudios biopolíticos en América Latina (2014). Mariela Solana is an Assistant Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina. She is affiliated to the Institute of Research on Gender Studies at the University of Buenos Aires. She is an Associate Professor and a member of the Gender Studies Program at the National University Arturo Jauretche. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires. Her main research fields are gender and sexuality studies, feminist theories of affect and embodiment, and feminist epistemology and philosopy of science. She is the author of La noción de subversión en Judith Butler (2017) and co-editor of Pretérito indefinido. Afectos y emociones en las aproximaciones al pasado (2015). Macarena Urzúa Opazo holds a B.A. in Hispanic Literatures and Aesthetics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago and a
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS xv Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures from Rutgers University, The State Univer- sity of New Jersey. She works as a Researcher & Associate Professor at CIDOC/Literature Department, Faculty of Communications and Humanities, Finis Terrae University, Santiago, Chile. She has published articles regarding post dictatorship poetry in Chile, chronicles and cinema from the perspective of memory, space, and landscape and on Avant- Garde networks’ conformation in Latin America. She has co-authored with Felipe Cussen and Marcela Labraña, ¿Quién le teme a la poesía? (Santiago, 2019); co edited with Irene Depetris Chauvin, Beyond Nature. Practices and Spatial Configurations in Contemporary Latin American Culture (Santiago, 2019) and co-edited with Jacqueline Dussaillant, Concisa, original y vibrante. Lecturas sobre la revista Zig-Zag (Santiago, 2020). Nayla Luz Vacarezza is an Assistant Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina. She is affiliated to the Gino Germani Research Institute at University of Buenos Aires and is also an Assistant Professor at the Sociology Department at the same university. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. Her scholarly interests include feminist and affect theories, visual politics, abortion rights struggles, and feminist movements. Her current research project explores the role of affect and images in abortion rights strug- gles in Latin America’s Southern Cone. She is co-author of the book La intemperie y lo intempestivo. Experiencia del aborto voluntario en el relato de mujeres y varones (2011). Virginia Villamediana is a Ph.D. candidate in Social Sciences with specialization in Andean Studies at Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences-Ecuador. She has a Master’s Degree in Gender and Develop- ment and is currently a Professor in the Gender, Violence and Human Rights specialization program at the same university. In her disserta- tion Virginia discusses the role of affects in political participation and citizenship practices.
List of Figures
Fig. 4.1 Pañuelazo [Protest action using green scarves]. XXXIII
Encuentro Nacional de Mujeres [National Women’s
Meeting], Trelew, 2019 (Photograph: Nayla Luz
Vacarezza) 71
Fig. 4.2 Nosotras Proponemos. Asamblea Permanente de
Trabajadoras del Arte [We Propose. Permanent Assembly
of Women Art Workers]. Acción Trenzar [Braiding
Action], Buenos Aires, 2019 (Photograph: Nosotras
Proponemos Archive) 74
Fig. 4.3 Protest action using the green scarf for abortion rights,
Santiago de Chile, 2018 (Photograph: Francesca Santoro
Orge) 77
Fig. 4.4 Trabajadoras del Arte y la Cultura de Chile [Women
Artists and Cultural Workers of Chile]. Acción del pañuelo
[Scarf Action], Santiago de Chile, 2019 (Photograph:
Trabajadoras del Arte y la Cultura de Chile Archive) 79
Fig. 8.1 Book cover. Las Morla. Diaries and Drawings by Carmen
and Ximena Morla Lynch. Santiago: Ediciones
Universidad Católica, 2016 (Photography of Carmen
and Ximena Morla) 153
Fig. 8.2 Transcription of mediumistic session by Victoria
Subercaseaux. July 1920 (Courtesy of Museo Nacional
Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna Photographic Collection) 170
xviixviii LIST OF FIGURES
Fig. 8.3 “I was carrying the wings borrowed by the angels
to my mother.” Las Morla. Diaries and Drawings
by Carmen and Ximena Morla Lynch. Santiago: Ediciones
Universidad Católica, 2016, p. 120 172
Fig. 8.4 “…don’t ask questions, we are going to visit her
(Nicolasa) in Paradise.” September 1894. Las Morla.
Diaries and Drawings by Carmen and Ximena Morla
Lynch. Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Católica, 2016,
p. 189 173
Fig. 9.1 Screenshot of the film Body Electric (2017). Courtesy
by Marcelo Caetano 182
Fig. 9.2 Screenshot of the film Body Electric (2017). Courtesy
by Marcelo Caetano 183
Fig. 9.3 Screenshot of the film Body Electric (2017). Courtesy
by Marcelo Caetano 186
Fig. 9.4 Screenshot of the film Body Electric (2017). Courtesy
by Marcelo Caetano 189
Fig. 12.1 From left to right: El sarape nacional [The National
sarape]. Moderna colección de canciones para el presente
año. [Modern Collection of Songs for the Current
Year.] Booklet, 14.5 × 10 cm, zinc engraving. José
Guadalupe Posada Museum Collection/ICA/Repositorio
Impresos Populares Iberoamericanos; La cubanita
[The Cuban girl], no. 22. Colección de canciones
para 1894. [Collection of Songs for 1894.] Booklet,
14.5 × 10 cm, cameo. José Guadalupe Posada
Museum Collection/ICA; El chin chun chan. Moderna
colección de canciones para el presente año. [Modern
Collection of Songs for the Current Year.] Booklet,
14.5 × 10 cm, cameo. José Guadalupe Posada
Museum Collection/ICA/Repositorio Impresos
Populares Iberoamericanos; La zacatecana [The girl
from Zacatecas], no. 28. Colección de canciones
modernas. [Collection of Modern Songs.] Booklet, 14.5
× 10 cm, cameo. José Guadalupe Posada Museum
Collection/ICA 236LIST OF FIGURES xix
Fig. 12.2 Left: Olas que el viento arrastran [Waves that the wind
blows], no. 49. Booklet, 14.5 × 10 cm, cameo. José
Guadalupe Posada Museum Collection/ICA/Repositorio
Impresos Populares Iberoamericanos. Right: Cuando el
amor renace [When love is reborn]. Nueva colección
de canciones modernas para el presente año [New
Collection of Modern Songs for the Present Year].
Booklet, 14.5 × 10 cm, zinc engraving. José Guadalupe
Posada Museum Collection/ICA/Repositorio Impresos
Populares Iberoamericanos 237
Fig. 12.3 Juan soldado [Soldier Juan], no. 47. Colección de
canciones modernas para 1902. [Collection of Modern
Songs for 1902.] Booklet. Repositorio Impresos
Populares Iberoamericanos 238
Fig. 12.4 La macetita [The flower pot], no. 5. Nueva colección
de canciones modernas para 1900. [New Collection
of Modern Songs for 1900.] Booklet, cameo. José
Guadalupe Posada Museum Collection/ICA 240
Fig. 12.5 Cuando el amor muere [When love dies]. Nueva
colección de canciones modernas para el presente año.
[New Collection of Modern Songs for this Year.] Booklet,
zinc engraving, cameo. José Guadalupe Posada Museum
Collection/ICA/Repositorio Impresos Populares
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