Queering the Protest’s Temporalities

Nicolás Cuello

doi:10.1515/ngs-2020-0017

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Queering the Protest’s Temporalities

Nicolás Cuello

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From the journal New Global Studies Volume 14 Issue 2

Abstract

This essay reviews a set of contemporary experiences of sex-political organization in the history of the Argentinian antagonistic imagination. It sketches an experimental, theoretical diagram of the power of queer negativity as it has been mobilized by several strategies of public space occupation. Addressing the interference and discontinuity of political time in the wake of new experiences of strike allows one to identify other forms of critical approaches to the streets’ heteronormative control systems. It also allows one to trace how new agencies of common organization can be activated for destabilizing the projective direction of emancipatory Left utopias, creating space for new vital protests.

Keywords: gender normativity; street protest; crononormativity; Chromoactivismo; queer temporality

Corresponding author: Nicolás Cuello, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, E-mail: cuellonicolas@hotmail.com

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Received: 2020-05-11

Accepted: 2020-05-11

Published Online: 2020-07-17

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Keywords for this article

gender normativity; street protest; crononormativity; Chromoactivismo; queer temporality