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
| Title | The homocapitalist politics of queer tourism: global LGBTQ+ activism, queer travel, and other queer mobilities in Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Burchiellaro, 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. |
| Keywords | Political Science and International Relations |
| Sociology and Political Science | |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | |
| Gender Studies | |
| Journal | International Feminist Journal of Politics |
| Journal citation | 26 (2), pp. 240-263 |
| ISSN | 1461-6742 |
| 1468-4470 | |
| Year | 2024 |
| Publisher | Taylor & 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 online | 24 Jan 2024 |
| Published in print | 2024 |
| Project | Early Career Fellowship |
| Funder | Leverhulme Trust |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Page range | 1-24 |