The homocapitalist politics of queer tourism: global LGBTQ+ activism, queer travel, and other queer mobilities in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Burchiellaro, Olimpia 2024. The homocapitalist politics of queer tourism: global LGBTQ+ activism, queer travel, and other queer mobilities in Buenos Aires, Argentina. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 26 (2), pp. 240-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2024.2301963

TitleThe homocapitalist politics of queer tourism: global LGBTQ+ activism, queer travel, and other queer mobilities in Buenos Aires, Argentina
TypeJournal article
AuthorsBurchiellaro, Olimpia
Abstract

The article sheds ethnographic light on the homocapitalist politics of queer tourism in Argentina. Tracing the growing incorporation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ+) inclusion into the country’s tourist offer as a “global brand,” it interrogates how different forms of access to queer mobility, liberation, and privilege unfold across different “zones of encounter” within the landscape of queer tourism in Buenos Aires. I suggest that while homocapitalist investments in queer tourism strongly resonate with an entrepreneurial class of global(ized) elite LGBTQ+ activists and small business owners who are able to “sell liberation” by forging partnerships with tourism authorities and corporations, their effects are more ambivalent for those who are unable and/or unwilling to appropriate the products and processes of globalization in pursuit of their own goals. These tensions come to the fore in the city’s LGBTQ+ nightlife, where encounters between local sexualities and the mobile subjectivities of Global North LGBTQ+ tourists take place against the backdrop of global economic crisis, economic precarity, and inequalities within lesbian, gay, bisexual, travesti, trans, transexual, and intersex (LGBTTTI) communities.

KeywordsPolitical Science and International Relations
Sociology and Political Science
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Gender Studies
JournalInternational Feminist Journal of Politics
Journal citation26 (2), pp. 240-263
ISSN1461-6742
1468-4470
Year2024
PublisherTaylor & Francis
Publisher's version
License
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
File Access Level
Open (open metadata and files)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2024.2301963
Publication dates
Published online24 Jan 2024
Published in print2024
ProjectEarly Career Fellowship
FunderLeverhulme Trust
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Page range1-24

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