Diego Garcia Rabines

Biography

Trained as a psychologist at the University of Lima and later earning a master's degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Amsterdam, I am currently a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Essex, funded by a SENSS studentship. My research centres on how queer subjects, rom middle-class gay men to indigenous Amazonians, inhabit cultures of intimacy at the intersection of neoliberal governance, urbanisation, and historically unequal class and race relations in contemporary Peru. Running through this work is a preoccupation with how thinking about the intimate can expand the political imagination, and a commitment to critical social research that positions Latin American queer lives as a site of theory-making. Selected Publications García-Rabines, Diego, Enrique Delgado-Ramos, María Del Carmen Espinoza-Reyes, and Gabriela Berrocal-Aragonés. 2026. Sexual Becomings: Examining Subjective Theories of Nonnormative Sexualities in Urban Shipibo-Konibo People. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 21 (1): 2040. doi:10.1080/17442222.2026.2617709. Delgado, Enrique, María Del Carmen Espinoza, Diego García-Rabines, and Gabriela Berrocal. 2025. Becoming a Woman or a Man: Subjective Theories Among Shipibo-Konibo Adults and Youth. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies 12 (4):132-51. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejecs/2141. Garcia-Rabines, Diego. 2022. Love in the Gay World: Negotiating Intimate Relationships in Lima´s Middle-Class Gay Scene. Journal of Homosexuality 69 (6): 10971118. doi:10.1080/00918369.2021.1905383.

Qualifications

• MA Latin American Studies University of Amsterdam (2025)

Thesis