Richard Miskolci

A Teoria Queer e a Sociologia: o desafio de uma analítica da normalização

Originated from the American Cultural Studies, Queer Theory has gained a reputation as a critical counterpoint to the sociological studies on sexual minorities and the political identity of the social movements. Based on a creative implementation of post-structuralist philosophy for the understanding of how sexuality shapes the contemporary social order, for more than a decade its affinities and tensions, as related to the social sciences, and particularly to sociology, are in discussion. This article joins the debate, analyzes the similarities and distinctions between those two, and finally presents an overview of the current dialogue, pointing to a possible convergence in the queer project to enable an analysis of normalization.

Pânicos morais e controle social: reflexões sobre o casamento gay

Provided is a system and method for operating a restroom appliance. The system includes a valve configured to control flow of a fluid to the restroom appliance by a valve operation, an actuator configured to request the valve operation, an indicator arranged as a ring surrounding the actuator, and at least one controller in communication with the actuator, the valve, and the indicator, the at least one controller programmed or configured to: cause the valve operation based at least partially on input received through the actuator, and control the indicator to display at least one visual state based at least partially on the valve operation.

Corpos elétricos: do assujeitamento à estética da existência

A busca da adequacao aos padroes de identidade socialmente impostos tem justificado e instituido as mais variadas formas de controle corporal. Ha cerca de dois seculos vivemos um processo de continuo disciplinamento e normalizacao dos corpos que tambem tem consequencias subjetivas, pois a subjetividade esta diretamente associada a materialidade do corpo. Assim, a historia da criacao de corpos e identidades sociais e tambem uma historia dos modos de producao da subjetividade. O texto parte dessa constatacao para discutir uma forma de resistencia ao assujeitamento: a proposta foucaultiana de uma estetica da existencia.

Networks of desire: the specter of AIDS and the use of digital media in the quest for secret same-sex relations in São Paulo

This article seeks to analyze the emergence of an on-line market for love and sex partners in Sao Paulo, as of 1997, when the internet became commercially available in Brazil. Focusing on the first generation of digital media users, my field research looks at men who entered adolescence or adulthood during the AIDS epidemic. I analyze how the use of digital media has been molded by peoples desire to dissociate themselves from the image that homosexuality acquired during the sex panic. In Brazils largest metropolis, this use of digital media is linked to historical and cultural transformations within the realm of homosexualities, as they move under the aegis of an erotic regime based on the desire for social adjustment.

San Francisco e a nova economia do desejo

This paper presents preliminary reflections about a research conduced during seven months in San Francisco, USA, which is also associated to one developed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, since 2007. It aims to synthetize how the use of sites and apps in the search for love and sexual partners constitutes a technological and comportamental phenomenon associated with deep economic, work and urban transformations. Therefore, it reconstitutes historically these connections and analyses them sociologically in one of the cities where they are more visible. The objective is to bring historical, ethnographic, theoretical and conceptual elements to understand the new socio-technical reality, in which we live, the same that has transformed the sphere of eroticism, of sexuality and of the morality related to them.

O vértice do triângulo: Dom Casmurro e as relações de gênero e sexualidade no fin-de-siècle brasileiro

Based on a Queer theoretical approach, this article explores transformations on gender and sexual relations in Brazilian society at the end of XIX century. This work associates a sociological analysis of the love triangle in the novel Dom Casmurro to a historical reconstitution of the period, as a way to give elements to a non-heteronormative comprehension of Brazilian social history. The focus on Machado de Assis´s most famous work allows exploring the fear and the violent refusal of any transgression of the gender and sexual order. The triangles vertex is always an Other and even if we identify s/he with a character, it is only the symbol of what that time and society rejected as a danger for the current structure of love and power relations.

Estranhos no paraíso: notas sobre os usos de aplicativos de busca de parceiros sexuais em San Francisco

A partir de uma etnografia desenvolvida em San Francisco, entre janeiro e agosto de 2013, este artigo explora o uso que homens gays adultos fazem de aplicativos para busca de parceiros amorosos e sexuais. A cidade passou da contracultura a gentrificacao em um processo que tambem transformou as formas de sociabilidade. No que se refere a busca de parceiros, passou-se do cruising ao hookup, ou seja, o uso de aplicativos reitera uma progressiva selecao de parceiros a partir de criterios morais

Discreto e fora do meio - Notas sobre a visibilidade sexual contemporânea*

A partir de uma etnografia conduzida com homens paulistanos que usam midias digitais em busca de parceiros do mesmo sexo, este artigo discute as razoes que os levam a adotar o uso de plataformas tecnologicas. Trago elementos sociologicos e historicos para refletir sobre o carater social do desejo que alimenta essa procura e o novo regime de visibilidade em que esses homens se inserem. Por fim, analiso as restricoes morais, simbolicas e materiais que configuram a economia do desejo que lhes demanda discricao e segredo.

Nikki Sullivan and Samantha Murray (eds), Somatechnics: Queering the Technologisation of Bodies (Queer Interventions), Farnham: Ashgate, 2009; 249 pp.: ISBN 9780754675303, US

Nicholas J Rowland is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Pennsylvania State University in Altoona, PA. His research emphasizes the adoption/procurement and implementation/ localization of innovations among nonprofit organizations. From the vantage point of STS (science and technology studies), he writes about the spread of large administrative information systems in higher education and rise of eHealth and its implications for states and state theory. Address: E. Raymond Smith Building 128H, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, PA 16601, USA. Email: njr12@psu.edu

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O artigo apresenta um panorama da producao sociologica brasileira e sua disseminacao desde a profissionalizacao a partir da segunda metade do seculo XX ate o presente. Analisa a internacionalizacao em curso identificando suas principais caracteristicas, analisa igualmente, em termos comparativos com outros paises, como tem se dado a insercao da sociologia brasileira no cenario global. Por fim, discute alguns dos desafios para que nossa producao alcance maior reconhecimento internacional, como a adocao do ingles como lingua de divulgacao, a criacao e consolidacao de parcerias internacionais equitativas, a ampliacao das pesquisas comparativas e o aumento da mobilidade docente.