Dredge Byung’chu Kang
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 232396 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dredge Byung’chu Kang |
| PRENOMES | Dredge Byung’chu |
| SOBRENOME | Kang |
| ASSINATURA | KANG D B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9958-7793 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Duty to Transform
Current analyses of Asian cosmetic surgery and other beautification practices assess their use for economic gain (e.g., increasing chances of gaining employment when photos are required with applications) or improving one’s luck (e.g., removing features that are likely to make one’s life more difficult). However, my research in Thailand details broader concerns about being riap-roi (neat, orderly, completed and properly groomed). That is, rather …
Dispatches From the Pasts/Memories of Aids
If I were not "queer," I would not know aids.Without knowing aids, I could not be "queer." I would also not be "queer" if it were not for the Cold War.If it were not for the Cold War, aids could not exist.The past lives in memories like a narrative missing transitions.As Marita Sturken writes, "Both the Vietnam War and the aids epidemic have profoundly affected the experience of nationality.Amer i ca is inconceivable without them." 1 Sturken expl…
The Softening of Butches
Vernacularizing Trans Thailand
Bangkok is a queer site good to think with. The Thai capital has one of the largest and most vibrant LGBT communities in the world, long in history and diverse in subcultures. The scene is simultaneously familiar and incomprehensible to foreigners. This makes Bangkok unique yet compelling for comparison
Surfing the Korean Wave
The Wonder Gays was a Thai K-pop cover-dance group. Their viral 2009 YouTube video covered the Wonder Girls’ song “Nobody” and consequently the Wonder Gays became an overnight sensation in Thailand, were signed by Zheza Records, and had a year-long tour. Their stardom however provoked questions about gender, sexuality and nationality. Wonder Gays’ effeminacy and popularity called into question their morality and their influence on other young peo…
Idols of Development
Inter-Asian cultural flows are transforming everyday Thai gender practices and performances in unexpected ways. The most striking example is the way in which Korean popular music, or K-pop, is molding contemporary beauty and dance aesthetics through cover dance, the copying of choreographed movements from music videos. K-pop cover dance has become a definitive social activity among Asian sissies (young feminine gay men) and is organized into an e…
Kathoey “In Trend”
In Thailand, genderscapes, or the terrain of gender and sexuality, continue to evolve quickly, with male-to-female transgenderisms and effeminate gay identities proliferating alongside masculine ones. The previous coding of kathoey in popular discourse as being traditional is shifting to one that identifies “kathoeyness”, or male effeminacy, with modernity. Recent incidents point to a discursive shift based on a purified nostalgia for Thai “tradi…
Queer Media Loci in Bangkok
In the Western popular imagination, Bangkok is a "gay paradise," a city that affords cheap and easy access to exotic "boys." This reputation for sex tourism as well as a local cultural tolerance for homosexuality and transgenderism is a common representation of queer Bangkok in English-language media. This article juxtaposes Thai media and lived experience to displace, recontextualize, and expand the prevailing Western view. It argues that Wester…
Kathoey “In Trend”
In Thailand, genderscapes, or the terrain of gender and sexuality, continue to evolve quickly, with male-to-female transgenderisms and effeminate gay identities proliferating alongside masculine ones. The previous coding of kathoey in popular discourse as being traditional is shifting to one that identifies “kathoeyness”, or male effeminacy, with modernity. Recent incidents point to a discursive shift based on a purified nostalgia for Thai “tradi…
Idols of Development
Inter-Asian cultural flows are transforming everyday Thai gender practices and performances in unexpected ways. The most striking example is the way in which Korean popular music, or K-pop, is molding contemporary beauty and dance aesthetics through cover dance, the copying of choreographed movements from music videos. K-pop cover dance has become a definitive social activity among Asian sissies (young feminine gay men) and is organized into an e…
Queer Media Loci in Bangkok
In the Western popular imagination, Bangkok is a "gay paradise," a city that affords cheap and easy access to exotic "boys." This reputation for sex tourism as well as a local cultural tolerance for homosexuality and transgenderism is a common representation of queer Bangkok in English-language media. This article juxtaposes Thai media and lived experience to displace, recontextualize, and expand the prevailing Western view. It argues that Wester…
The Duty to Transform
Current analyses of Asian cosmetic surgery and other beautification practices assess their use for economic gain (e.g., increasing chances of gaining employment when photos are required with applications) or improving one’s luck (e.g., removing features that are likely to make one’s life more difficult). However, my research in Thailand details broader concerns about being riap-roi (neat, orderly, completed and properly groomed). That is, rather …
Surfing the Korean Wave
The Wonder Gays was a Thai K-pop cover-dance group. Their viral 2009 YouTube video covered the Wonder Girls’ song “Nobody” and consequently the Wonder Gays became an overnight sensation in Thailand, were signed by Zheza Records, and had a year-long tour. Their stardom however provoked questions about gender, sexuality and nationality. Wonder Gays’ effeminacy and popularity called into question their morality and their influence on other young peo…
Queer Media Loci in Bangkok
In the Western popular imagination, Bangkok is a "gay paradise," a city that affords cheap and easy access to exotic "boys." This reputation for sex tourism as well as a local cultural tolerance for homosexuality and transgenderism is a common representation of queer Bangkok in English-language media. This article juxtaposes Thai media and lived experience to displace, recontextualize, and expand the prevailing Western view. It argues that Wester…
Kathoey “In Trend”
In Thailand, genderscapes, or the terrain of gender and sexuality, continue to evolve quickly, with male-to-female transgenderisms and effeminate gay identities proliferating alongside masculine ones. The previous coding of kathoey in popular discourse as being traditional is shifting to one that identifies “kathoeyness”, or male effeminacy, with modernity. Recent incidents point to a discursive shift based on a purified nostalgia for Thai “tradi…
Idols of Development
Inter-Asian cultural flows are transforming everyday Thai gender practices and performances in unexpected ways. The most striking example is the way in which Korean popular music, or K-pop, is molding contemporary beauty and dance aesthetics through cover dance, the copying of choreographed movements from music videos. K-pop cover dance has become a definitive social activity among Asian sissies (young feminine gay men) and is organized into an e…
Vernacularizing Trans Thailand
Bangkok is a queer site good to think with. The Thai capital has one of the largest and most vibrant LGBT communities in the world, long in history and diverse in subcultures. The scene is simultaneously familiar and incomprehensible to foreigners. This makes Bangkok unique yet compelling for comparison
Surfing the Korean Wave
The Wonder Gays was a Thai K-pop cover-dance group. Their viral 2009 YouTube video covered the Wonder Girls’ song “Nobody” and consequently the Wonder Gays became an overnight sensation in Thailand, were signed by Zheza Records, and had a year-long tour. Their stardom however provoked questions about gender, sexuality and nationality. Wonder Gays’ effeminacy and popularity called into question their morality and their influence on other young peo…
The Softening of Butches
Dispatches From the Pasts/Memories of Aids
If I were not "queer," I would not know aids.Without knowing aids, I could not be "queer." I would also not be "queer" if it were not for the Cold War.If it were not for the Cold War, aids could not exist.The past lives in memories like a narrative missing transitions.As Marita Sturken writes, "Both the Vietnam War and the aids epidemic have profoundly affected the experience of nationality.Amer i ca is inconceivable without them." 1 Sturken expl…
The Duty to Transform
Current analyses of Asian cosmetic surgery and other beautification practices assess their use for economic gain (e.g., increasing chances of gaining employment when photos are required with applications) or improving one’s luck (e.g., removing features that are likely to make one’s life more difficult). However, my research in Thailand details broader concerns about being riap-roi (neat, orderly, completed and properly groomed). That is, rather …
Sociology (6 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · History (4 obras) · Psychology (4 obras) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Media studies (3 obras) · Social Psychology (3 obras)