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Research paper thumbnail of Memes

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Dec 16, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of There's a disco ball between us: A theory of Black gay life By JafariAllen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 440 pp

Research paper thumbnail of The Hall of Mirrors

Routledge eBooks, Sep 16, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Tiempo Al Tiempo

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

This article explores the role of critical engagement with official and alternative historical na... more This article explores the role of critical engagement with official and alternative historical narratives for dissident/diverse activists in Chile. Intervening in the debate surrounding queer temporality, which has tended to focus on the idea of futurity, the article brings Elizabeth Freeman's concept of “temporal drag” into conversation with Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui's theorization of ch'ixi subjectivity to argue that temporal drag on ch'ixi bodies renders visible the impact of colonial norms surrounding race and sexuality in the creation of the modern Chilean nation-state. Through four case studies, gathered via archival research and ethnographic participant observation, the author makes the case that by engaging with and questioning, rather than running from, official historical narratives, dissident/diverse activists in Chile carry out activism that brings to light both the country's historical and continuing oppression of sexual and racial minorities and the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Friedman, Elisabeth J. (ed.) ( 2019) Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide, Duke University Press (Durham, NC), ix + 344 pp. <span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mn>104.95</mn><mi>h</mi><mi>b</mi><mi>k</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">.</mi><mo separator="true">,</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">104.95 hbk., </annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8889em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord">104.95</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03148em;">hbk</span><span class="mord">.</span><span class="mpunct">,</span></span></span></span>27.95 pbk

Research paper thumbnail of Constructing the digital self in the Global South

Sexuality and the discursive construction of the digital self in the Global South, 2020

The papers in this special section examine how people in various contexts of the Global South “co... more The papers in this special section examine how people in various contexts of the Global South “construct the self” in online spaces. With examples from Chile, Senegal, and Trinidad, the papers show the wide range of discursive practices, encompassing the textual and the aesthetic, which individuals use to enact gendered and sexual selves online. By privileging gender and sexuality as central components of selfhood, we draw from the longstanding attention paid to gender and sexuality in linguistic studies of identification (see Bucholtz & Hall 2004). In placing this concept within digital worlds, we pay attention to the ways in which daily life is now lived and experienced online. Authors in this issue think critically about practices of self-formation and the performance of gender and sexuality that differ from those that have normalized in the Global North, considering both revolutionary possibility, and re-entrenchment of constraint.

Research paper thumbnail of Movilh-ization: Hegemonic masculinity in the queer social movement industry in Santiago de Chile

This thesis explores the current divide in the LGBTI or queer social movement industry in Santiag... more This thesis explores the current divide in the LGBTI or queer social movement industry in Santiago de Chile. Based on field interviews with Chilean activists in June 2013, it argues that the deployment and maintenance of hegemonic masculinity is ultimately at the root of the fissure. The introduction provides a brief history of the movement in Chile since the 1970's, as well as short introductions to each of the six social movement organizations in the study. Chapter 1 problematizes the recent rapid lexical change in which the term diversidad has come to mean `gay,' as well as it impact on social movement framing tactics, providing evidence of a nascent diversidad frame that has been coopted by hegemonically masculine actors. Chapter 2 explores the politics surrounding the passage of Chile's Ley AntidiscriminaciA³n and the murder of Daniel Zamudio, arguing that certain social movement actors deployed hegemonic masculinity to seize and maintain control of both the media frenzy and the passage of the law. Finally, Chapter 3 analyzes the ongoing fight for same-sex partnership recognition in Chile by problematizing the fight for the proposed Acuerdo de Vida en Pareja as well as marriage equality, arguing that these issues represent the interests of hegemonically masculine voices within the movement above all others.

Research paper thumbnail of Transgender-Specific Policy in Latin America

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, 2019

The situation of trans rights in Latin America varies greatly by country and region despite a bin... more The situation of trans rights in Latin America varies greatly by country and region despite a binding 2017 opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) clarifying member states’ obligations to guarantee trans rights. While countries in the Southern Cone and Northern Andes have recently made great strides in protecting and supporting their trans citizens, Central America, the Caribbean, and several countries in South America continue to offer little or no legal support for trans rights. Some countries, such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay, have passed Gender Identity Laws that provide trans people with the ability to rectify their documents to reflect their names and gender identities. The current state of trans-specific policy in the region is explored by first framing it through an overview of the relevant parts of the IACHR ruling and then presenting the case for the depathologization of trans identities, one of the movement’s most pressing goa...

Research paper thumbnail of The Chilean Estallido, Plebiscite 2020, and Legacies of Truth-Telling Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology

Research paper thumbnail of Learning to be Trans on YouTube/Pedagogías Trans en YouTube

http://blog.castac.org/2017/02/trans-on-youtube/

Research paper thumbnail of What Can Twitter Do to/for the Field?

A preliminary experiment using Twitter as a tool to conduct and rethink fieldwork.

Research paper thumbnail of Social Media as a Tool for Linguistic Maintenance and Preservation among the Mapuche

Research paper thumbnail of Movilh-ization: Hegemonic Masculinity In The Queer Social Movement Industry In Santiago De Chile

This thesis explores the current divide in the LGBTI or queer social movement industry in Santiag... more This thesis explores the current divide in the LGBTI or queer social movement industry in Santiago de Chile. Based on field interviews with Chilean activists in June 2013, it argues that the deployment and maintenance of hegemonic masculinity is ultimately at the root of the fissure. The introduction provides a brief history of the movement in Chile since the 1970's, as well as short introductions to each of the six social movement organizations in the study. Chapter 1 problematizes the recent rapid lexical change in which the term diversidad has come to mean `gay,' as well as it impact on social movement framing tactics, providing evidence of a nascent diversidad frame that has been coopted by hegemonically masculine actors. Chapter 2 explores the politics surrounding the passage of Chile's Ley Antidiscriminación and the murder of Daniel Zamudio, arguing that certain social movement actors deployed hegemonic masculinity to seize and maintain control of both the media frenzy and the passage of the law. Finally, Chapter 3 analyzes the ongoing fight for same-sex partnership recognition in Chile by problematizing the fight for the proposed Acuerdo de Vida en Pareja as well as marriage equality, arguing that these issues represent the interests of hegemonically masculine voices within the movement above all others.

Articles by Baird Campbell

Research paper thumbnail of Constructing the Digital Self in the Global South

Journal of Language and Sexuality, 2020

This special section examines how people in various contexts of the Global South “construct the s... more This special section examines how people in various contexts of the Global South “construct the self” in online spaces. With examples from Chile, Senegal, and Trinidad, the papers show the wide range of discursive practices, encompassing the textual and the aesthetic, which individuals use to enact gendered and sexual selves online. By privileging gender and sexuality as central components of selfhood, we draw from the long-standing attention paid to gender and sexuality in linguistic studies of identification (see Bucholtz & Hall 2004). In placing this concept within digital worlds, we pay attention to the ways in which daily life is now lived and experienced online. Authors in this issue think critically about practices of self-formation and the performance of gender and sexuality that differ from those that have normalized in the Global North, considering both revolutionary possibility, and re-entrenchment of constraint.

Research paper thumbnail of Memes

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Dec 16, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of There's a disco ball between us: A theory of Black gay life By JafariAllen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 440 pp

Research paper thumbnail of The Hall of Mirrors

Routledge eBooks, Sep 16, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Tiempo Al Tiempo

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

This article explores the role of critical engagement with official and alternative historical na... more This article explores the role of critical engagement with official and alternative historical narratives for dissident/diverse activists in Chile. Intervening in the debate surrounding queer temporality, which has tended to focus on the idea of futurity, the article brings Elizabeth Freeman's concept of “temporal drag” into conversation with Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui's theorization of ch'ixi subjectivity to argue that temporal drag on ch'ixi bodies renders visible the impact of colonial norms surrounding race and sexuality in the creation of the modern Chilean nation-state. Through four case studies, gathered via archival research and ethnographic participant observation, the author makes the case that by engaging with and questioning, rather than running from, official historical narratives, dissident/diverse activists in Chile carry out activism that brings to light both the country's historical and continuing oppression of sexual and racial minorities and the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Friedman, Elisabeth J. (ed.) ( 2019) Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide, Duke University Press (Durham, NC), ix + 344 pp. <span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mn>104.95</mn><mi>h</mi><mi>b</mi><mi>k</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">.</mi><mo separator="true">,</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">104.95 hbk., </annotation></semantics></math></span><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.8889em;vertical-align:-0.1944em;"></span><span class="mord">104.95</span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.03148em;">hbk</span><span class="mord">.</span><span class="mpunct">,</span></span></span></span>27.95 pbk

Research paper thumbnail of Constructing the digital self in the Global South

Sexuality and the discursive construction of the digital self in the Global South, 2020

The papers in this special section examine how people in various contexts of the Global South “co... more The papers in this special section examine how people in various contexts of the Global South “construct the self” in online spaces. With examples from Chile, Senegal, and Trinidad, the papers show the wide range of discursive practices, encompassing the textual and the aesthetic, which individuals use to enact gendered and sexual selves online. By privileging gender and sexuality as central components of selfhood, we draw from the longstanding attention paid to gender and sexuality in linguistic studies of identification (see Bucholtz & Hall 2004). In placing this concept within digital worlds, we pay attention to the ways in which daily life is now lived and experienced online. Authors in this issue think critically about practices of self-formation and the performance of gender and sexuality that differ from those that have normalized in the Global North, considering both revolutionary possibility, and re-entrenchment of constraint.

Research paper thumbnail of Movilh-ization: Hegemonic masculinity in the queer social movement industry in Santiago de Chile

This thesis explores the current divide in the LGBTI or queer social movement industry in Santiag... more This thesis explores the current divide in the LGBTI or queer social movement industry in Santiago de Chile. Based on field interviews with Chilean activists in June 2013, it argues that the deployment and maintenance of hegemonic masculinity is ultimately at the root of the fissure. The introduction provides a brief history of the movement in Chile since the 1970's, as well as short introductions to each of the six social movement organizations in the study. Chapter 1 problematizes the recent rapid lexical change in which the term diversidad has come to mean `gay,' as well as it impact on social movement framing tactics, providing evidence of a nascent diversidad frame that has been coopted by hegemonically masculine actors. Chapter 2 explores the politics surrounding the passage of Chile's Ley AntidiscriminaciA³n and the murder of Daniel Zamudio, arguing that certain social movement actors deployed hegemonic masculinity to seize and maintain control of both the media frenzy and the passage of the law. Finally, Chapter 3 analyzes the ongoing fight for same-sex partnership recognition in Chile by problematizing the fight for the proposed Acuerdo de Vida en Pareja as well as marriage equality, arguing that these issues represent the interests of hegemonically masculine voices within the movement above all others.

Research paper thumbnail of Transgender-Specific Policy in Latin America

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, 2019

The situation of trans rights in Latin America varies greatly by country and region despite a bin... more The situation of trans rights in Latin America varies greatly by country and region despite a binding 2017 opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) clarifying member states’ obligations to guarantee trans rights. While countries in the Southern Cone and Northern Andes have recently made great strides in protecting and supporting their trans citizens, Central America, the Caribbean, and several countries in South America continue to offer little or no legal support for trans rights. Some countries, such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay, have passed Gender Identity Laws that provide trans people with the ability to rectify their documents to reflect their names and gender identities. The current state of trans-specific policy in the region is explored by first framing it through an overview of the relevant parts of the IACHR ruling and then presenting the case for the depathologization of trans identities, one of the movement’s most pressing goa...

Research paper thumbnail of The Chilean Estallido, Plebiscite 2020, and Legacies of Truth-Telling Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology

Research paper thumbnail of Learning to be Trans on YouTube/Pedagogías Trans en YouTube

http://blog.castac.org/2017/02/trans-on-youtube/

Research paper thumbnail of What Can Twitter Do to/for the Field?

A preliminary experiment using Twitter as a tool to conduct and rethink fieldwork.

Research paper thumbnail of Social Media as a Tool for Linguistic Maintenance and Preservation among the Mapuche

Research paper thumbnail of Movilh-ization: Hegemonic Masculinity In The Queer Social Movement Industry In Santiago De Chile

This thesis explores the current divide in the LGBTI or queer social movement industry in Santiag... more This thesis explores the current divide in the LGBTI or queer social movement industry in Santiago de Chile. Based on field interviews with Chilean activists in June 2013, it argues that the deployment and maintenance of hegemonic masculinity is ultimately at the root of the fissure. The introduction provides a brief history of the movement in Chile since the 1970's, as well as short introductions to each of the six social movement organizations in the study. Chapter 1 problematizes the recent rapid lexical change in which the term diversidad has come to mean `gay,' as well as it impact on social movement framing tactics, providing evidence of a nascent diversidad frame that has been coopted by hegemonically masculine actors. Chapter 2 explores the politics surrounding the passage of Chile's Ley Antidiscriminación and the murder of Daniel Zamudio, arguing that certain social movement actors deployed hegemonic masculinity to seize and maintain control of both the media frenzy and the passage of the law. Finally, Chapter 3 analyzes the ongoing fight for same-sex partnership recognition in Chile by problematizing the fight for the proposed Acuerdo de Vida en Pareja as well as marriage equality, arguing that these issues represent the interests of hegemonically masculine voices within the movement above all others.

Research paper thumbnail of Constructing the Digital Self in the Global South

Journal of Language and Sexuality, 2020

This special section examines how people in various contexts of the Global South “construct the s... more This special section examines how people in various contexts of the Global South “construct the self” in online spaces. With examples from Chile, Senegal, and Trinidad, the papers show the wide range of discursive practices, encompassing the textual and the aesthetic, which individuals use to enact gendered and sexual selves online. By privileging gender and sexuality as central components of selfhood, we draw from the long-standing attention paid to gender and sexuality in linguistic studies of identification (see Bucholtz & Hall 2004). In placing this concept within digital worlds, we pay attention to the ways in which daily life is now lived and experienced online. Authors in this issue think critically about practices of self-formation and the performance of gender and sexuality that differ from those that have normalized in the Global North, considering both revolutionary possibility, and re-entrenchment of constraint.