An ethnography of urban citizenship global belonging and queerness in a rapidly growing
provincial city in the Global South Queerly Cosmopolitan explores how people develop a sense
of belonging in a city understood by many to be unimportant and in the middle of nowhere. In
his exploration of the city of Teresina and its inhabitants' attempts to establish a sense of
belonging and self-worth Timothy Eugene Murphy creatively employs queer theory to investigate
a community of bohemians. As he follows the participants through different realms of
life-nocturnal bohemia work family and intimate friendships-Murphy demonstrates how widely
circulating cultural forms from music to sexuality offer upwardly mobile communities ways to
fashion cosmopolitan lives in even the most peripheral locations.
