South-North Dialogues on Queer Epistemologies, Embodiments and Activisms is composed of research presented at the fourth international Queering Paradigms Conference (QP4), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In line with the QP project ethos of bringing together diverse epistemological and geographical allegiances, this volume intends to contribute to building a queer postcolonial critique of the current politics of queer activism and of queer knowledge production and circulation. However, rather than perpetuating the North-South dichotomy, the papers gathered here are an effort to establish global dialogues that crisscross those axes, as well as attempts at queering epistemologies, socio-political bonds, and bodies, embodiments and identities. They endeavour to trouble unequal geographies of knowledge - namely the North as an exporter of theories and the South as their importer; the North as a producer of knowledge and the South as its object of study - hosting enormous potential for reinvention.

Contents: Rodrigo Borba/Elizabeth Sara Lewis/Branca Falabella Fabrício/Diana de Souza Pinto: Introduction: A Queer Postcolonial Critique of (Queer) Knowledge Production and Activism - Richard Miskolci: Queering the Geopolitics of Knowledge - Larissa Pelúcio: Possible Appropriations and Necessary Provocations for a Teoria Cu - Pedro Paulo Gomes Pereira: When Theories Travel: Queer Theory and Processes of Translation - Cassie Peterson: Bloodless and Lawless: Queering «Family» in Social Work Discourse - Luciana Lins Rocha: Queer Literacies in the Brazilian Public School EFL Classroom: Performing Action Research - Bex Harper: British Heritage Television: Reconstructing Queer Desire in Daphne (2007) and The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010) - Alexander T. Vasilovsky: «Say