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Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil
Based on original ethnographic research and presented in graphic form, Gringo Love explores the intimate negotiations between local women and foreign tourists, or gringos, in the city of Natal in northeastern Brazil alongside deep social inequality and increasing state surveillance leading up to the 2014 World Cup. It touches on important contemporary issues, including sexual economics, transnational mobility, gendered and racialized imaginaries, race, class and inequality, and visual methods. It is part of the EthnoGraphic Series from UT Press, which seeks to engage with ethnographic and anthropological research in graphic form, and which aims to present scholarly-informed work to broader audience in an accessible and visually rich format.
Author’s bio
Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan (PhD UBC, 2012) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is a sociocultural anthropologist working primarily in Brazil and recently also in Quebec, Canada. She is interested in the political economy and governance of care, sexuality, and intimacy, as well as in various scales and spaces of political engagements around gender and sexuality. She has conducted ethnographic research on the sexualized economy of tourism in Natal, in the northeast of Brazil, including research on questions around the racialized, gendered political economy of love, practices of transnational mobility, and intimate negotiations between Brazilian women and European men against a backdrop of social inequalities. Dr. Carrier-Moisan also has a longstanding interest in visual anthropology, and in particular, in the possibilities of ethnography in graphic form. In collaboration with Dr. William Flynn, who has adapted her research into a visual story, and Débora Santos, a Brazilian illustrator, she has turned her ethnography of sex tourism into a graphic form, with Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil (2020).
