Jotería Communication Studies

Narrating Theories of Resistance

Robert Gutierrez-Perez, Bernadette Marie Calafell, Thomas K. Nakayama, Bernadette Marie Calafell, Thomas K. Nakayama

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781433164620
  9781433164613
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781433164583
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Media Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

This book articulates Jotería Communication Studies as a subdiscipline and as a praxis for resisting multiple forms of oppression by focusing on how everyday performances of identity and culture challenge master narratives of power and control. Although this book is for scholars, artists, and practitioners from communication studies, gender and sexuality studies, performance studies, cultural studies, or even, Latinx and Chicanx studies in education, sociology, history, literature, media, arts, and humanities, this book speaks to and with those nonheteronormative mestizas/os who perform their sexuality and gender in queer practices and communicative forms—Jotería. As a methodological intervention into the study of marginalized and subaltern communities, this book provides research on Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning (GBTQ) Chicano and Latino communities from specific geographic regions of the U.S. Southwest. Utilizing multiple methods, this book provides a cultural map or political snapshot of a particular time and place from a particular point of view or location and generates knowledge that highlights reflexivity, cultural/queer nuances, and decolonial acts of resistance. Specifically, this book locates "theories in the flesh" in the borderlands narratives of Jotería, such as cuentos, pláticas, chismé, testimonio, mitos, and consejos. These theories of power and resistance create knowledge about how Jotería make sense of their own difference, how people interpret their assumed or perceived difference, and ultimately, how difference is managed as an emancipatory tool toward the goal of queer of color world making.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Information
• Copyright Information
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Theories in the Flesh as Resistance in Everyday Communicative Life
• Part One: Borderlands Narratives and Snapshots of Jotería-Historias
• Part Two: Narrating and Staging Theories and Methods of Resistance
• Part Three: Jotería Performance Rhetoric
• Bibliography
• Index
• Series Index