Quiet politics

Queer organizing in corporate Singapore

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3436733
AutoresMinwoo Jung (0000-0002-4352-9102, Loyola University Chicago, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen70
Número5
Páginas863-881
Fecha de publicación2022-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00380261221104386
OpenAlexW4283526685
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas47

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 corporate diversity activism in Singapore, it analyzes how queer employees navigate the contradictions of neoliberal capitalism in multinational corporations. The concept of quiet politics helps us understand the nuanced ways in which queer subjects 'quietly' mobilize themselves through a negotiation of neoliberalism, queer politics, and the authoritarian government that persecutes homosexuality. In doing so, this article challenges the Western notion of queer liberalism and sheds new light on the complex entanglement of neoliberal capitalism, corporate diversity, contentious politics, and queer activism from a global perspective

Authoritarianism · Capitalism · Democracy · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia