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/401/ Modernity is Very Gay ft. Roger Lancaster


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On Mexico, class, and sexuality. 
 
We welcome anthropologist Roger Lancaster onto the pod to talk about his new book, The Struggle to Be Gay – in Mexico, for Example.  
 
We discuss:

How much is being gay tied to being modern? And conversely, how much of globalized culture is itself "gay"?

  • Do you need to be middle class to be gay?

  • Why did neoliberalism provide more sexual freedom than corporatism in Mexico? 

  • How was Mexico ahead of the US in introducing ‘progressive neoliberalism’?

  • Is now a time of freedom, or should we think of it differently?

    In part two, we discuss AMLO's "synthetic" presidency, and the way peasant conservatism in central America has traditionally provided a boost to radicalism – and ask whether this is still the case.
     
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    See also: /180/ Bunga Bunga (but Gay) ft. Mark Simpson & River Page
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