Abstracts Geography

Geografía de las sexualidades en un espacio no metropolitano de Argentina : el caso de Bahía Blanca

by José Ignacio Larreche

In the course of latin-american and argentine geographical science, otherness has had a minimal place if it is repaired in subjects belonging to the LGBT community. This silence increases in non-metropolitan spaces, as if there were no possibility for these socio-spatial constructions. The New Cultural Geography offers a battery of conceptualizations and methodological tools that, in an interdisciplinary dialogue, install and stimulate the concern for a deeper geography that collaborates in the understanding of these spatialities. Undoubtedly, the space traversed by desire (socio-sexual space) is complex to apprehend and, in this sense, the practices together with the weight of the testimonies are crucial in this sensitive and qualitative research. Taking into account that sexuality has an inherently spatial correlate and that, in turn, this dimension is affected by time, subjectivity and mainly culture in its context, accounting for the spatial capital of these subjects becomes the main horizon of this job. The problem of (in)visibility, the symbolic dimension and the permanent set of feelings, as well as scales, are constituent elements of this dwelling, cut out mainly in gays and lesbians, located and thought from the city of Bahía Blanca. Bahía Blanca, the main urban nucleus of the southwestern region of the province of Buenos Aires, is formed as the cultural area of study, whose social imaginary has conditioned the socio-sexual dynamics in question. The discussions and findings of this writing allow not only a more federal approach to these existences but also a more rigorous one with the corpus of geography.