Pere Torra
Biographic Data
| ID | 9484386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pere Torra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pere |
| FAMILY NAME | Torra |
| SIGNATURE | TORRA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0349-9567 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Portraits of Queerness
How to narrate queer lives without reproducing the epistemic violence of abstraction? In this article, we address several tensions between portraying, as necessarily reductive process of description and representation, and Queerness, as performance of self-representation blurring cis-heteronormative categories, and therefore generating disciplinary processes. Drawing on these reflections, we also mobilize the flexibility of Queerness to highlight…
Naming Semonpiru
This article presents an ethnographic and narrative portrait of Semonpiru, a middle-aged Bolivian Guaraní man who challenges social norms in various aspects of his life, including his sexuality and performance of masculinity. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research and a long-term relationship with Semonpiru, and from a reflexive positionality, the article examines non-normative masculinities, naming practices, and gender categories in …
Años de plurinacionalidad? Un balance crítico del proyecto de refundación de Bolivia
Hoy en día, cada 22 de enero es feriado en Bolivia. Se celebra el “día de la Fundación del Estado Plurinacional”. Así, desde el 20 de enero de 2010, cuando un decreto ejecutivo fijó la nueva festividad, los bolivianos disponen dedos fechas para evocar momentos históricos vinculados con (re)fundaciones patrias –además de un variado repertorio de celebraciones cívicas de carácter regional–: por un lado, el 6 de agosto, en que hoy se conmemora la fi…
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Años de plurinacionalidad? Un balance crítico del proyecto de refundación de Bolivia
Hoy en día, cada 22 de enero es feriado en Bolivia. Se celebra el “día de la Fundación del Estado Plurinacional”. Así, desde el 20 de enero de 2010, cuando un decreto ejecutivo fijó la nueva festividad, los bolivianos disponen dedos fechas para evocar momentos históricos vinculados con (re)fundaciones patrias –además de un variado repertorio de celebraciones cívicas de carácter regional–: por un lado, el 6 de agosto, en que hoy se conmemora la fi…
Portraits of Queerness
How to narrate queer lives without reproducing the epistemic violence of abstraction? In this article, we address several tensions between portraying, as necessarily reductive process of description and representation, and Queerness, as performance of self-representation blurring cis-heteronormative categories, and therefore generating disciplinary processes. Drawing on these reflections, we also mobilize the flexibility of Queerness to highlight…
Naming Semonpiru
This article presents an ethnographic and narrative portrait of Semonpiru, a middle-aged Bolivian Guaraní man who challenges social norms in various aspects of his life, including his sexuality and performance of masculinity. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research and a long-term relationship with Semonpiru, and from a reflexive positionality, the article examines non-normative masculinities, naming practices, and gender categories in …
African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · Reflexivity (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Diversity (politics) (1 work) · Economic and Social Development (1 work) · Ethnography (1 work) · Ethnomethodology (1 work) · Everyday life (1 work) · Flexibility (engineering) (1 work)