Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: MATHEUS SOARES FERREIRA

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STUDENT : MATHEUS SOARES FERREIRA
DATE: 30/09/2021
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Google Meet
TITLE:

By day it's João and by night it's Maria: The geographic space read from the drag queen's body.

KEY WORDS:

Drag Queen, Body, Space, City.

PAGES: 87
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUBÁREA: Geografia Humana
SUMMARY:

We are increasingly being confronted by a range of information that passes through the filter of what we consider normality. Be it a new haircut, a song with an unconventional melody, new styles represented by fashion, unusual characters in the media, graffiti on a wall, all symbols that impact our perception of normality. Within these “anomalies” that we notice in our daily lives, are the drag queens. Drag queens are coming out (albeit shyly) from the marginality and underground scene, gaining more and more prominence on TV, radio, internet, magazines and urban spaces for coexistence. This persona, which intrigues the binary idea of gender (man-woman) based on her “manufactured body”, appears as a rich object for geographic analysis, both with regard to the geographic space itself and how it reveals itself. in the city. Thus, we aim to discuss the body as a geographic spatial scale for understanding urban complexity, from the external and internal elements that make up the experience of a drag queen. Butler (2003) proposes to rethink the body no longer as a natural given, but as a "politically regulated surface". This body, according to Ornat (2008, p. 319), has been positioned as a social and political space, going beyond a biological space. The spatialities of drag queen subjects stress the heterosexuality inscribed in space, until then invisible (ORNAT, 2008). Thus, in addition to the body, space and city, the research presents discussions regarding issues of gender, the relationship between geography and art, micro-territorialities and nocturnal uses of the city. The research reveals that, when we reduce the scale of our geographic analysis of the city, what we understand as a city presents itself as a maze of expressions, spatial and behavioral games that often go beyond what our eyes can see. and our hands can touch.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1777712 - ALESSANDRO DOZENA
Interna - 6350736 - EUGENIA MARIA DANTAS
Externo à Instituição - MARCIO JOSÉ ORNAT - UEPG