In this Book
- Queer Singapore: Illiberal Citizenship and Mediated Cultures
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Hong Kong University Press, HKU
- Series: Queer Asia
summary
Singapore remains one of the few countries in Asia that has yet to decriminalise homosexuality. Yet it has also been hailed by many as one of the emerging gay capitals of Asia. This book accounts for the rise of mediated queer cultures in Singapore’s current milieu of illiberal citizenship. This collection analyses how contemporary queer Singapore has emerged against a contradictory backdrop of sexual repression and cultural liberalisation. Using the innovative framework of illiberal pragmatism, established and emergent local scholars and activists provide expansive coverage of the impact of homosexuality on Singapore’s media cultures and political economy, including law, religion, the military, literature, theatre, photography, cinema, social media and queer commerce. It shows how new LGBT subjectivities have been fashioned through the governance of illiberal pragmatism, how pragmatism is appropriated as a form of social and critical democratic action, and how cultural citizenship is forged through a logic of queer complicity that complicates the flows of oppositional resistance and grassroots appropriation.
Table of Contents
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- Contributors
- pp. vii-x
- Acknowledgements
- pp. xi-xii
- Part 1: Cultural Citizenship and Queer Politics
- Part 2: Queer Media Cultures
- References
- pp. 223-250
Additional Information
ISBN
9789882208766
Related ISBN(s)
9789888139330
MARC Record
OCLC
826660147
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2012-11-02
Language
English
Open Access
No