Making a Living
The Gringo Ethnographer as Pimp of the Suffering in the Late Capitalist Night
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 2408138 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Samuel P L Veissiere (0000-0002-1158-2347), P L Veissiere |
| Ano | 2010 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 29-39 |
| Data de publicação | 2010-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Editora | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532708609351152 |
| OpenAlex | W2032783461 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 8 |
| Referências citadas | 9 |
Set in the criminalized, racialized, and sexualized streets of Salvador da Bahia, this article presents experimental ethnographic glimpses of the deeply transnational aspects of desire, suffering, and violence in the disintegrating public spaces of a Northeastern Brazilian city famous for its global tourism fuelled by transnational desire for and consumption of Afro-Brazilian culture and bodies. The author reflects on the possibility of critical engagement between academic ethnographers from the North and the sex workers, street kids, crack users, and other marginalized social actors who make a living in the street. Refraining from facile, depoliticized celebrations of grassroots “critical” anthropology and other fantasies about empowering the subaltern, the author depicts the terror-as-usual at Bahian-street livelihoods from the necessarily exploitative position of a gringo ethnographer who is also making a living and a career from writing about the suffering of others. While this article, like all of Veissière’s work, is ultimately committed to a search for postcolonial social justice and critical dialogues between intellectuals and the subaltern, it also contemplates the horror of being an academic pimp who sustains a livelihood from exploiting human suffering and violence
Art · Criminology · Critical ethnography · Ethnography · Grassroots · Livelihood · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subaltern · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies · Gender Studies · History · Sex work and related issues · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics · Law
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| Obras citantes distintas | 7 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,67 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 8 |