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On-line version ISSN 1853-3655
Abstract
LARRECHE, José Ignacio. Las sexualidades y su capital espacial. Exploraciones teórico-situadas en la ciudad intermedia de Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Cuad. urbano [online]. 2018, vol.25, n.25, pp.163-183. ISSN 1853-3655. http://dx.doi.org/10.30972/crn.25253515.
Sexuality and its spatial capital exploring their theoretical-locational expfessions in the middle-sized city of Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Geography is a science with few theories about the spatial dimension of sexuality at a national level, although this has been a fertile ground for other social sciences. Understanding public space as an otherness regulator, through mechanisms of control that imprint a spatial social hierarchy. In Bahía Blanca, alternative sexual practices still carry a stigma that hinders performative acts. Through flexible interviews and participant observation, the social space of these self-defined gay subjects is discussed, considering the sociosexual interstices linked to these practices, their day-night rhythms and the virtuality of these socializations. The goal is to question this space on the basis of the experiences of people self-defined as gay in an attempt, on the one hand, to explore the degree of fulfilment of these socio-spatial practices, and on the other hand, improve the tools provided by geography to better illuminate these locational experiences.
Keywords : Geography of Sexualities; self-defined gay subjects; spatial possibilities; Intermediate city of Bahía Blanca.