Book, Queer Theory a Learning through Differences[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. An excellent introduction to the debate surrounding Queer Theory, this book is written with the precision and sensitivity peculiar to Richard Miskolci, this young, inspired and talented researcher on the themes of the body, identities and subjectivations. From the personal narrative of his school experiences, marked by the authoritarianism and violence of the final years of the military dictatorship, we enter, through a light and in-depth reading, into a reflection guided by the desire to transform the power relations present in the heteronormative school, which ignores the multiple facets of human expression and imposes binary standards of what is expected of “being a man” and “being a woman”. Queer Theory, as it has been incorporated into the culture and practices of Brazilian society, questions the biopolitical devices that discipline and control bodies and desires, causing suffering to those who dare to be different. And thus proposes a new look at school and education, where the illusion of neutrality regarding the ideological construction of an identity hegemony must be linked to some interests – and not to others. Dealing with what is different, from the perspective of also transforming and putting oneself into question: this is the queer provocation for a school that brings into discourse the experiences of stigma and humiliation, in order to rethink itself in the face of human coexistence and demands of civil society.