Global Communities and Hybrid Cultures
Early Gay and Lesbian Electoral Activism in Brazil and Mexico
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2964213 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rafael De La Dehesa (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-51 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Research Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/lar.2007.0006 |
| OpenAlex | W2057149735 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 19 |
Scholars have recast debates on globalization by emphasizing both national actors' selective appropriation of transnational practices and their hybrid reinvention in national settings. Drawing on Nestor García Canclini's concepts of "global communities" and "hybrid cultures," I explore these debates by comparing gay and lesbian activists' first experiments in electoral activism in Mexico and Brazil, both occurring in 1982. The different electoral strategies that prevailed in each country drew on the transnational arena in different ways. To explain these differences, I consider the relative strength of competing sectors within heterogeneous social movement fields and their variable participation in competing global communities. The relative influence of these sectors and thus the relative salience of specific transnational practices, in turn, reflected each movement's embeddedness in broader opposition movements to authoritarian regimes. Finally, I argue that these practices should be read contextually, with attention given to their transformation and limitations in national settings
Appropriation · Authoritarianism · Democracy · Embeddedness · Globalization · Lesbian · Opposition (politics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Salience (neuroscience) · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Politics and Society in Latin America · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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Strange Fruit
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Cartas desde Buenos Aires
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Challenging authority
The night is young
Accessing public, media, electoral, and governmental agendas
What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of Market?
The impact of national contexts on social movement structures
Modernity at large
Activists beyond Borders
Framing the Sexual Subject
Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America
The Nation and Its Fragments
Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements
On the state, democratization and some conceptual problems
Counterpoints
The Cross-National Diffusion of Movement Ideas
Activists beyond borders
The Changing Logic of Political Citizenship
Articulación y transnacionalización de los feminismos latinoamericanos
Beyond the Nation? Or within
Women's Movements in the Third World
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |