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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.
List of contents
Introduction: Theories in the Flesh as Resistance in Everyday Communicative Life - Borderlands Narratives and Snapshots of Jotería- Historias Remembering Jotería - Narrating and Staging Theories and Methods of Resistance Unbecoming the Poem - Jotería Performance Rhetoric - Index.
About the author
Robert Gutierrez-Perez is an assistant professor of communication and culture at the University of Nevada, Reno in the Department of Communication Studies. He is an author, editor, poet, and performance artist.
Summary
This book articulates a communicative praxis for resisting multiple forms of oppression by showing how everyday performances of identity and culture challenge master narratives of power and control. As an emancipatory tool, it recenters nonheteronormative Latinx experience difference as a managed form of queer of color worldmaking.
Report
"Joteri a Communication Studies: Narrating Theories of Resistance represents the sophistication of a critical, performative approach to Intercultural Communication that examines complex and contradictory intersections among culture, power, and communication. The way Gutierrez-Perez methodologically centers women of color feminism, queer of color criticism, and decoloniality to study the historically saturated and culturally specific nuances of GBTQ Chicanos and Latinos is very noteworthy. Most important, Gutierrez-Perez unapologetically centers his body as a site of knowing to showcase the performative, creative, and radical aspects of academic knowledge productions that disrupts the power and privilege of (social) science. And this book is fun, cutting-edge, and intellectual just like who Gutierrez-Perez is." -Shinsuke Eguchi, Associate Professor, Department of Communication & Journalism, University of New Mexico
