Queering Paradigms IV: South-North Dialogues on Queer Epistemologies, Embodiments and Activisms

South-North Dialogues on Queer Epistemologies, Embodiments and Activisms is composed of research presented at the fourth international Queering Paradigms Conference (QP4), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In line with the QP project ethos of bringing together diverse epistemological and geographical allegiances, this volume intends to contribute to building a queer postcolonial critique of the current politics of queer activism and of queer knowledge production and circulation. However, rather than perpetuating the North-South dichotomy, the papers gathered here are an effort to establish global dialogues that crisscross those axes, as well as attempts at queering epistemologies, socio-political bonds, and bodies, embodiments and identities. They endeavour to trouble unequal geographies of knowledge - namely the North as an exporter of theories and the South as their importer; the North as a producer of knowledge and the South as its object of study - hosting enormous potential for reinvention. Queering Paradigms IVa: Insurgencias queer ao Sul do equador, junto com o volume Queering Paradigms IV: South-North Dialogues on Queer Epistemologies, Embodiments and Activisms (Lewis et al.
2014), divulga de forma multilingue pesquisas apresentadas no 4 Congresso Internacional Queering Paradigms (QP4), sediado no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Ambos os volumes compartilham o objetivo de analisar o status quo e os desafios para o futuro dos Estudos Queer a partir de uma perspectiva inter/multidisciplinar, concentrando-se sobre as relacoes entre os eixos Sul-Norte. O presente livro oferece capitulos escritos em portugues e espanhol, linguas subalternas na academia global, visando a privilegiar vozes e conhecimentos do Sul. Os trabalhos reunidos neste volume insurgem contra a colonizacao epistemologica dos corpos que habitam o Sul global e apontam para os problemas que surgem quando a(s) Teoria(s) Queer do Norte sao aplicadas sem adaptacao a outros contextos. Alem de violencias epistemologicas, a falta de atencao ao que acontece ao sul do equador pode levar a uma paralizacao do debate queer. O convite que esses capitulos fazem e um desafio a olhar para onde nao se costuma olhar e ouvir as vozes que nao se costuma ouvir, de forma a devolver ao queer seu potencial de contestacao.