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The persistence of heteronormativity is not only due to the weight of social conventions and norms, but also to material conditions of existence: being in a couple means having more resources. Sophie Lewis asserts that the conditions of heterosexuality are inseparable from economic realities: ‘Most women are too overworked, too exhausted by the demands of capitalism and its culture of compulsory enjoyment to even have the opportunity to learn to love.’

Sophie Lewis wrote ‘Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation’

#relationships #domesticWork #sociology #heteroNormativity #materialistFeminism #feminism #love #subjugation #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #patriarchy #subalternStudies #family

“I simply do not see why the nation has to have an official sexuality, especially one that authorizes the norm of a violent gentility; that narrows the field of legitimate political action; that supports the amputation of personal complexity into categories of simple identity; that uses cruel and mundane strategies both to promote shame for non-normative populations and to deny them state, federal, and juridical supports because they are deemed morally incompetent to their own citizenship. This is the heterosexuality I repudiate.”

― Lauren Berlant, in "The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship"

#heteroNormativity #beliefs #subjugation #radicality #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #queer #Berlant #LaurenBerlant #literature #fluidity #patriarchy #subalternStudies

“The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing the orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.”

― Edward W. Said, Orientalism

#culture #subalternStudies #islamophobia #orientalism #whiteSupremacy #mandates #history #EdwardSaid #hegemony #quote #quotes

"We can better understand the persistence and the durability of saturating hegemonic systems like culture when we realize that their internal constraints upon writers and thinkers were productive, not unilaterally inhibiting."

― Edward Said

#culture #subalternStudies #domination #orientalism #OttomanEmpire #mandates #history #EdwardSaid #hegemony #quote #quotes

“The subaltern as female cannot be heard or read.”
– Gayatri Spivak

#relationships #subalternStudies #exploitation #patriarchy #couples #emotions #domination #sociology #women #femininity #fragility #heteroNormativity #quotes #citation #GayatriSpivak #Spivak

O primeiro evento de 2025 acontece já na segunda-feira, 6 de Janeiro!

Com acolhimento da Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, vamos evocar o legado do antropólogo norte-americano James C. Scott, reunindo um conjunto de investigadores/as que têm trabalhado a partir de algumas das suas hipóteses e conceitos fundamentais.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/efeito-scott/

#Histodons #Anthropodons #JamesCScott #SocialHistory #Anthropology #SubalternStudies #GlobalSouth #HistóriaSocial #EstudosSubalternos #SulGlobal

HOJE é dia da Conferência José Medeiros Ferreira!

O ano lectivo do Doutoramento em História vai começar com a conferência de Antonio Castilllo Gómez (Universidad de Alcalá) "Escribir desde abajo: Reflexiones para una historia subalterna de la escritura".

ENTRADA LIVRE

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/escribir-desde-abajo-jmf/

#Histodons #SubalternStudies #LitStudies #EstudosSubalternos #EstudosLiterários #Literatura