(Homo)orientalismo: epistemologias sexuais e produção de discursos sobre o "Outro" sexual-racial na Palestina.

Taking as reference frame the critical and genealogical analysis of Michel Foucault (1994) I try to understand the discourse mutations associated with sexual practices in a colonial context and how these discourses are part of a "biopower", that hierarchizes and organizes social life. The context of analysis focuses on the Palestinian Territories as a place of circulation of modern discourses, that travel from representations about the homosexual character of the Palestinians to discourses about their homophobic character, always with the aim of building an abyssal separation (Santos, 2009), between a civilized and healthy "Us" and a savage and pathological "Other". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]