“Com quantos quilos de medo se faz uma tradição?”: heteronormativity as part of social and affective relations and territorialities in the fraternities of Ouro Preto, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Estevão-Rezende, Yuri
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Dores, Marcus Vinícius Pereira das
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Periódicus
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/revistaperiodicus/article/view/31470

Abstract: In times of repression and loss of rights, our paper focuses on discussing heteronormativity regarding theuniversity fraternity environment in the traditional and historical city of Ouro Preto, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The city,the house, and the street are not only geophysical, but also political, social and affective categories. Thus, these spacescarry both sexually and morally normative devices, which also assume the heteronormativity (re)production. Can afraternity be “straight”? A delimited heteronormative space? What are the limits of sexual identity activation of theseprivate spaces? How is this activation negotiated and reiterated in an urban and student sociability context? In this paper,these questions are addressed and deeply treated. First, we discuss the links between space occupation, and their territorialidentity construction, and the production of territorialities by relating heteronormativity and space. We also show actions toillustrate how heteronormativity builds up sociability inside fraternity houses.Keywords: Heteronormativity. Socioaffective relationships. Ouro Preto’s fraternity houses.