Jônatas Stritar Alaman

Visiting Scholar

Jônatas Stritar Alaman is a PhD student in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. He holds a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology from UFSC and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS). His previous research explored online sex markets among gay men, investigating social markers in digitally mediated intimate economies. Currently, his research focuses on the intersections of mobility and tourism in urban and coastal spaces, with particular attention to LGBTQIA+ tourism, subjectivity, and the place-making processes of practices related to gender and sexual nonconformity, such as gay cruising and naturism. Drawing on ethnographic methods, his work examines how the symbolic and material construction of tourist destinations shapes experiences of gender and sexual dissidence, as well as how local policies, markets, and social movements influence these dynamics.

Participating Years

2026–2027

Radical Imagination: Temporalities and Geographies of Struggle

In a world of deepening crises, of socioeconomic inequities, of environmental collapse, of resurgent fascism and institutionalized authoritarianism, what is the place of radical imagination in creating more just worlds? While some think of the work of imagination as being outside of—at a distance to, or even in a different temporality than—everyday struggle, we want to shine a light on the work of radical practice as a form of imagination. We look to anticapitalist and antiracist organizing and thought, and the complex practices in time and place through which change is not only presented and represented but produced.