Perpetual motion

Displacement of travestis from an ethnographic perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID2489299
AuthorsAndré Rocha Rodrigues (0000-0002-9334-1116, Federal Institute of São Paulo, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume19
Publication date2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1809-43412022v19e606
OpenAlexW4321268634
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412022000100606
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

Intense mobility is a characteristic observed in the context of travestis who work in sex markets. Studies on the subject usually emphasize that this mobility is related to a project of refinement, social ascension, and greater social, symbolic, and economic well-being, besides serving as a project of transformation and beautification of the bodies. Based on ethnographic work, I argue that, in order to understand the various orders of displacements of travestis, it is necessary to understand such movements as a perpetual motion machine, and not as being determined by imperatives that would necessarily lead to displacements from one place to another in search of something - much less something exceptional. In the observed context, displacements are a way of being in the world. Events occur during the displacements, not because of them

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