Phil Freestone
Biographic Data
| ID | 910019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phil Freestone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phil |
| FAMILY NAME | Freestone |
| SIGNATURE | FREESTONE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7678-9840 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The sociolinguistic navigation of sexual normativities among same-gender-attracted men in contemporary Chengdu, China
In this article, the navigation of normativities by same-gender-attracted, male-identified individuals in Chengdu, China is considered with reference to their linguistic identity work. It foregrounds the relevance of plural normativities, which often arise from intersecting structural forces with diverse cultural roots, to better acknowledge the rich diversity of the broader sexual minority community in China. In turn, it argues that individual p…
Do “Chinese gays” come out
This paper draws on linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork in Chengdu, China to consider the utility of broad labels such as Chinese, Western and gay in accounting for the performance of sexual and cultural identity. I problematise work which takes such notions to be stable and self-evidently referential, arguing instead that identity is much more fluid, emergent and discourse-dependent than conventional understandings tend to imply. I focus on visibi…
The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality, written by Angouri, Jo and Judith Baxter
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The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality, written by Angouri, Jo and Judith Baxter
Do “Chinese gays” come out
This paper draws on linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork in Chengdu, China to consider the utility of broad labels such as Chinese, Western and gay in accounting for the performance of sexual and cultural identity. I problematise work which takes such notions to be stable and self-evidently referential, arguing instead that identity is much more fluid, emergent and discourse-dependent than conventional understandings tend to imply. I focus on visibi…
The sociolinguistic navigation of sexual normativities among same-gender-attracted men in contemporary Chengdu, China
In this article, the navigation of normativities by same-gender-attracted, male-identified individuals in Chengdu, China is considered with reference to their linguistic identity work. It foregrounds the relevance of plural normativities, which often arise from intersecting structural forces with diverse cultural roots, to better acknowledge the rich diversity of the broader sexual minority community in China. In turn, it argues that individual p…
Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies in Language (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · China (1 work) · Demography (1 work) · Demography (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work)