Minwoo Jung
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3580899 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Minwoo Jung |
| NOMBRES | Minwoo |
| APELLIDO | Jung |
| FIRMA | JUNG M |
| AFILIACIONES | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4352-9102 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Decolonizing the Global
In the last decade, the "decolonial turn" has gained prominence across academic disciplines, challenging inherent Eurocentric knowledge paradigms. Extending these conversations, this paper critically investigates the notion of "the global" from a decolonial perspective. Decolonial scholars criticize the mainstream conceptualization of cosmopolitanism for its Eurocentrism and advocate for alternative forms of cosmopolitanism. This paper builds on …
Flexible masculinities
How do individuals navigate various forms of hegemonic masculinity as they traverse different geographic and cultural boundaries? This article introduces the concept of flexible masculinities to examine the increasing cultural demand and individual practice of flexibility in gendered interactions in a globalized world. Taking a transnational approach, this article contextualizes flexible masculinities under the advanced regime of flexible accumul…
Theorizing Sexuality Politics of Neoliberalism
This article provides a critical overview of neoliberalism scholarship from a queer sociological perspective. Despite mainstream neoliberalism scholarship neglecting sexuality as a system of intersecting power relations, sociologists of sexualities have explored how neoliberalism reshapes the state, market, society, and subjectivity concerning sex, intimacy, and sexual politics. Highlighting the intersection of the sociology of sexualities with t…
Queer theory impossible
This essay examines the institutional construction of "queer theory" as a field in the United States and its translation and subsequent failure outside the U.S. Despite presenting itself as a critical field of inquiry, queer theory has been centered in the most privileged institutions in the global North, primarily in the U.S. I investigate how U.S.-centric queer theory has built upon the international division between "theory" and "case," rooted…
Imagining sovereign futures
How do social movements respond to geopolitical uncertainties and mobilize aspirations and imagined futures for progressive social change? Building on scholarship on social movements and imagined futures, this article provides an empirical analysis of Taiwan’s marriage equality movement as it navigated the shifting horizon of the nation’s future. With the economic and diplomatic rise of mainland China, Taiwan has confronted with an increasing int…
Rights Projects
Building on and extending relational sociology, this article establishes a relational sociology of rights. I argue that rights should not be viewed as substances but as social constructs that derive their meanings and significance within a relational setting. To illustrate how rights are constructed relationally, I introduce a new analytic concept: the rights project, the context-specific endeavor of marginalized communities to envision, claim, a…
A tale of two homosocialities
Sedgwick’s (1985) influential monograph Between Men popularized the concept of homosociality, which refers to the social or affective bonds between persons of the same sex. She emphasized that heteronormative patriarchy builds on the structure of “the male traffic in women,” by which she meant “the use of women by men as exchangeable objects, as counters of value, for the primary purpose of cementing relationships with other men” (p. 123). Extend…
Quiet politics
How could queer activism for social change be possible in an authoritarian but neoliberal environment? What does neoliberalism imply for queer struggles in non-Western contexts where liberal democracy is absent or non-existent? This article introduces the concept of 'quiet politics' to establish a new theoretical lens for understanding queer organizing under global capitalism. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interview data on the rise of co…
Embracing the nation
How do sexual minorities navigate and negotiate with nationalism? While some scholars consider nationalism as a primarily exclusionary force against sexual minorities, how might we understand sexual minorities' engagement with nationalism? I address these questions by exploring the strategic deployment of sexual and national identities of LGBT movements through the case study of Singapore's annual LGBT-inclusive event, Pink Dot. In response to th…
Precarious Seoul
South Korea's economic restructuring following the 1997–98 Asian financial crisis increased deregulation, privatization, and labor flexibility, creating new forms of social precarity. This article examines this precarity to rethink the relationship between macrolevel social changes and microprocesses of social life in relation to urban inequality. Drawing on fifteen months of ethnographic research conducted between 2009 and 2011 and in-depth inte…
Precarious Seoul
South Korea's economic restructuring following the 1997–98 Asian financial crisis increased deregulation, privatization, and labor flexibility, creating new forms of social precarity. This article examines this precarity to rethink the relationship between macrolevel social changes and microprocesses of social life in relation to urban inequality. Drawing on fifteen months of ethnographic research conducted between 2009 and 2011 and in-depth inte…
Imagining sovereign futures
How do social movements respond to geopolitical uncertainties and mobilize aspirations and imagined futures for progressive social change? Building on scholarship on social movements and imagined futures, this article provides an empirical analysis of Taiwan’s marriage equality movement as it navigated the shifting horizon of the nation’s future. With the economic and diplomatic rise of mainland China, Taiwan has confronted with an increasing int…
Embracing the nation
How do sexual minorities navigate and negotiate with nationalism? While some scholars consider nationalism as a primarily exclusionary force against sexual minorities, how might we understand sexual minorities' engagement with nationalism? I address these questions by exploring the strategic deployment of sexual and national identities of LGBT movements through the case study of Singapore's annual LGBT-inclusive event, Pink Dot. In response to th…
Queer theory impossible
This essay examines the institutional construction of "queer theory" as a field in the United States and its translation and subsequent failure outside the U.S. Despite presenting itself as a critical field of inquiry, queer theory has been centered in the most privileged institutions in the global North, primarily in the U.S. I investigate how U.S.-centric queer theory has built upon the international division between "theory" and "case," rooted…
Rights Projects
Building on and extending relational sociology, this article establishes a relational sociology of rights. I argue that rights should not be viewed as substances but as social constructs that derive their meanings and significance within a relational setting. To illustrate how rights are constructed relationally, I introduce a new analytic concept: the rights project, the context-specific endeavor of marginalized communities to envision, claim, a…
Quiet politics
How could queer activism for social change be possible in an authoritarian but neoliberal environment? What does neoliberalism imply for queer struggles in non-Western contexts where liberal democracy is absent or non-existent? This article introduces the concept of 'quiet politics' to establish a new theoretical lens for understanding queer organizing under global capitalism. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interview data on the rise of co…
Flexible masculinities
How do individuals navigate various forms of hegemonic masculinity as they traverse different geographic and cultural boundaries? This article introduces the concept of flexible masculinities to examine the increasing cultural demand and individual practice of flexibility in gendered interactions in a globalized world. Taking a transnational approach, this article contextualizes flexible masculinities under the advanced regime of flexible accumul…
Precarious Seoul
South Korea's economic restructuring following the 1997–98 Asian financial crisis increased deregulation, privatization, and labor flexibility, creating new forms of social precarity. This article examines this precarity to rethink the relationship between macrolevel social changes and microprocesses of social life in relation to urban inequality. Drawing on fifteen months of ethnographic research conducted between 2009 and 2011 and in-depth inte…
Embracing the nation
How do sexual minorities navigate and negotiate with nationalism? While some scholars consider nationalism as a primarily exclusionary force against sexual minorities, how might we understand sexual minorities' engagement with nationalism? I address these questions by exploring the strategic deployment of sexual and national identities of LGBT movements through the case study of Singapore's annual LGBT-inclusive event, Pink Dot. In response to th…
A tale of two homosocialities
Sedgwick’s (1985) influential monograph Between Men popularized the concept of homosociality, which refers to the social or affective bonds between persons of the same sex. She emphasized that heteronormative patriarchy builds on the structure of “the male traffic in women,” by which she meant “the use of women by men as exchangeable objects, as counters of value, for the primary purpose of cementing relationships with other men” (p. 123). Extend…
Quiet politics
How could queer activism for social change be possible in an authoritarian but neoliberal environment? What does neoliberalism imply for queer struggles in non-Western contexts where liberal democracy is absent or non-existent? This article introduces the concept of 'quiet politics' to establish a new theoretical lens for understanding queer organizing under global capitalism. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interview data on the rise of co…
Theorizing Sexuality Politics of Neoliberalism
This article provides a critical overview of neoliberalism scholarship from a queer sociological perspective. Despite mainstream neoliberalism scholarship neglecting sexuality as a system of intersecting power relations, sociologists of sexualities have explored how neoliberalism reshapes the state, market, society, and subjectivity concerning sex, intimacy, and sexual politics. Highlighting the intersection of the sociology of sexualities with t…
Queer theory impossible
This essay examines the institutional construction of "queer theory" as a field in the United States and its translation and subsequent failure outside the U.S. Despite presenting itself as a critical field of inquiry, queer theory has been centered in the most privileged institutions in the global North, primarily in the U.S. I investigate how U.S.-centric queer theory has built upon the international division between "theory" and "case," rooted…
Imagining sovereign futures
How do social movements respond to geopolitical uncertainties and mobilize aspirations and imagined futures for progressive social change? Building on scholarship on social movements and imagined futures, this article provides an empirical analysis of Taiwan’s marriage equality movement as it navigated the shifting horizon of the nation’s future. With the economic and diplomatic rise of mainland China, Taiwan has confronted with an increasing int…
Rights Projects
Building on and extending relational sociology, this article establishes a relational sociology of rights. I argue that rights should not be viewed as substances but as social constructs that derive their meanings and significance within a relational setting. To illustrate how rights are constructed relationally, I introduce a new analytic concept: the rights project, the context-specific endeavor of marginalized communities to envision, claim, a…
Decolonizing the Global
In the last decade, the "decolonial turn" has gained prominence across academic disciplines, challenging inherent Eurocentric knowledge paradigms. Extending these conversations, this paper critically investigates the notion of "the global" from a decolonial perspective. Decolonial scholars criticize the mainstream conceptualization of cosmopolitanism for its Eurocentrism and advocate for alternative forms of cosmopolitanism. This paper builds on …
Flexible masculinities
How do individuals navigate various forms of hegemonic masculinity as they traverse different geographic and cultural boundaries? This article introduces the concept of flexible masculinities to examine the increasing cultural demand and individual practice of flexibility in gendered interactions in a globalized world. Taking a transnational approach, this article contextualizes flexible masculinities under the advanced regime of flexible accumul…
Sociology (10 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Human sexuality (5 obras) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 obras) · Queer (4 obras)