Between the lines, networks and lgbtq+ circuits – an ethnographic approach to the styles and patterns of cocaine use in São Paulo/Brazil

Authors

  • Osvaldo Fernandez UNEB
  • Edward MacRae UFBA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31892/rbpab2525-426X.2019.v4.n11.p482-503

Keywords:

(Auto)biography, Cocaine, LGBTQ , Gender, Sexuality, Urban ethnography

Abstract

This article is the result of long years of ethnographic research in the city of São Paulo with cocaine users in different territories and circuits, especially LGBTQ+ consumers in the central region of the state capital. The research was constructed with direct observations and with the employment of interviewed with 11 “key informants”", who narrates about their own consumption and the users of their networks of friendships, which they knew better in two different moments in 1994 and 2006. It makes a brief critical commentary on the “state of the art” in this field of study, with particular attention to the production of the social sciences. This research seeks to understand the learning about the use of illicit drugs (cocaine), the forms of user control, the rituals and patterns of use, as well as the life trajectories of cocaine users. Finally, it shows the role played by cocaine in different socio-cultural contexts, particularly the use of cocaine in sexual and homoerotic contexts.

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Author Biographies

Osvaldo Fernandez, UNEB

Anthropologist, Professor of the Social Science course Department of Education and Researcher DIADORIM – Center of the study Gender, Race/Ethnic and Sexuality at the Bahia State University; with Postdoctoral degree in Urban and Medical Anthropology at Sociomedical Sciences Department, Mailman School Public Health, Columbia University (NY/EUA), stipend holder from the Foundation CAPES – Proc. N° BEX (1960-09-1), Brazilian Ministry of Education.

Edward MacRae, UFBA

Anthropologist, Associate Professor II at the Bahia Federal University – UFBA; Associate Researcher of the  – Center for Drug Abuse Therapy and Studies – CETAD/UFBA.

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Published

2019-06-20

How to Cite

FERNANDEZ, O.; MACRAE, E. Between the lines, networks and lgbtq+ circuits – an ethnographic approach to the styles and patterns of cocaine use in São Paulo/Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa (Auto)biográfica, [S. l.], v. 4, n. 11, p. 482–503, 2019. DOI: 10.31892/rbpab2525-426X.2019.v4.n11.p482-503. Disponível em: https://revistas.uneb.br/index.php/rbpab/article/view/6502. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.