Abstract
The chapter brings the reader from nocturnal bohemia back out into the day, exposing Teresina’s bohemians in the context of the ordinary and the normal. Rather than transcending mainstream local life, the bohemians find themselves in constant negotiation with it. The chapter addresses how these bohemians negotiate double lives––participating in both the nightlife of bohemia and the “daylife” of mainstream society. Part of this negotiation means deploying different discourses and practices in different spaces and moments. The chapter argues that it is through such negotiations and its ethos of queerness (e.g., fluidity, flexibility, and openness to possibility) that the community of bohemians makes sense of the contradiction of being both local and cosmopolitan.
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Notes
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The “galera” refers to the clique of people who come together to form Teresina’s nocturnal bohemia (Chap. 4).
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Mocambinho began as a government-subsidized housing development (conjunto habitacional) and has since grown, become quite established, and is now home to a number of Teresina’s upwardly mobile residents.
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It is important to note that neither does the galera nor do I take the “local” to be anything more than a relative, context-contingent, or “conjured” (Tsing 2005: 57) geographical scale.
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Aaron Ansell, in his article “‘But the winds will turn against you’: An analysis of wealth forms and the discursive space of development in northeast Brazil,” concludes that in the community he studied in the south of Piauí, locals fear telling others about wealth in terms of land and livestock that is subject to danger by the Evil Eye. While Ansell’s focus is community development, his findings reveal a tendency one can find throughout the countryside of Piaui: a habitus of mistrust of others.
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Murphy, T.E. (2019). Black Sheep by Day. In: Queerly Cosmopolitan. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00296-1_5
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