2018
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Brice Chamouleau de Matha, « Formas de la colonialidad mesocrática: turistas gais en la Costa Brava de los setenta », HAL-SHS : études de genres, ID : 10670/1.63bri9
Turism and coloniality are mostly studied in history, especially when dealing with gender and sexualities, focusing critically on turistic orientalist experiences between Northern and Southern Europeans. The purpose of this paper is to offer an other perspective about colonialism in tardofrancoist and transitional Catalan context. Based on judicial records against gay people initiated in application of the Ley de Peligrosidad y Rehabilitación Social during the seventies in Catalonia, involving foreign men, the present study proposes a re-interpretation of coloniality revealed sintomatically in the turistic context: turism, key element of spanish economy and cultural production center of rising values in a consumerist society that strengthens since the sixties its symbolic capital, produces epistemic violence not only based on national or north/south relationships, but also on social class : subjects are exposed in different ways to the law, depending on their position with respect to cultural practices that divides the reference community of spanish government and its others : young “gays” which embodied an antropological dispute with that dominant community.