BDSM practices, sociabilities, sexualities: anthropological approaches
Abstract
This thesis investigates the case of BDSM. By focusing on the organization and materialization of BDSM practices I attempt to trace some of the routes of BDSM sexual experience, desire, and sociability as represented in the wider context of neoliberal relations and dominant national narratives in modern Greece. My analysis is oriented towards an ethnographic, materialistic and performative approach and it negotiates BDSM practices as performative practices which exchange content with the frameworks in which they belong without this resulting neither in their full harmonization with them, nor in a radical disengagement from them, an utopian transgression. The cross-sections of BDSM with the analytical categories of space, gender, body, consumption, technology, and politics brings me in an attempt to verge the negotiations located in BDSM practices. These negotiations involve the concepts of "true" and "not true", the "literal" and "metaphor" of power, ambiguous limits of what is perceiv ...
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