Burchiellaro, Olimpia (2024) The homocapitalist politics of queer tourism: global LGBTQ+ activism, queer travel, and other queer mobilities in Buenos Aires, Argentina. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 26 (2). pp. 240-263. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2024.2301963
Burchiellaro, Olimpia (2024) The homocapitalist politics of queer tourism: global LGBTQ+ activism, queer travel, and other queer mobilities in Buenos Aires, Argentina. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 26 (2). pp. 240-263. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2024.2301963
Burchiellaro, Olimpia (2024) The homocapitalist politics of queer tourism: global LGBTQ+ activism, queer travel, and other queer mobilities in Buenos Aires, Argentina. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 26 (2). pp. 240-263. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2024.2301963
Abstract
The article sheds ethnographic light on the homocapitalist politics of queer tourism in Argentina. Tracing the growing incorporation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ+) inclusion into the country’s tourist offer as a “global brand,” it interrogates how different forms of access to queer mobility, liberation, and privilege unfold across different “zones of encounter” within the landscape of queer tourism in Buenos Aires. I suggest that while homocapitalist investments in queer tourism strongly resonate with an entrepreneurial class of global(ized) elite LGBTQ+ activists and small business owners who are able to “sell liberation” by forging partnerships with tourism authorities and corporations, their effects are more ambivalent for those who are unable and/or unwilling to appropriate the products and processes of globalization in pursuit of their own goals. These tensions come to the fore in the city’s LGBTQ+ nightlife, where encounters between local sexualities and the mobile subjectivities of Global North LGBTQ+ tourists take place against the backdrop of global economic crisis, economic precarity, and inequalities within lesbian, gay, bisexual, travesti, trans, transexual, and intersex (LGBTTTI) communities.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Queer tourism; homocapitalism; LGBTQ+ activism; global economic crisis; neoliberalism |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School > Management and Marketing |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 10 Oct 2025 12:02 |
Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2025 12:02 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38678 |
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