Paris’ and ‘scar’

Queer social reproduction, homonormative division of labour and HIV/Aids economy in postsocialist China

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12291981
AutoresShana Ye (0000-0002-2612-4648, Women’s and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen28
Número12
Páginas1778-1798
Fecha de publicación2021-01-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGender Place & Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0966-369X • E-ISSN: 1360-0524
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0966369x.2021.1873742
OpenAlexW3124235515
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas32

This essay explores the imbrications between queer precarity and social reproduction from the perspective of homonormative division of labour. Contextualizing the emergence of China’s HIV/AIDS economy and its reliance on queer intimate labour, it argues that the homonormative division of labour are part and parcel to maintain and nurture the economic, political structures of LGBT liberalism. Instead of providing ‘local case’ of homonormativity, this paper connects the normalizing power on sexuality and bodies to the larger geography of transnational labour division and conditions of labour precarity, providing an analysis of South-focused political economy of homonormativity. Arguing against viewing precarity as an overarching global phenomenon, this essay centres on lived experiences of the queer ‘precariat’ and highlights the contradiction and interplay of agency and conformity. Reclaiming the Chinese queer lexicon tongzhi (comrades), not only as a sexual identity, but as queer sociality where desires and work converge, this essay cautions against narrowly defined but broadly circulated concepts such as ‘oppression’, ‘resistance’, ‘social movement’ and ‘community’ that are predominantly derived from Western centric political imagination and activist space

Human sexuality · Neoliberalism (international relations · Oppression · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Precarity · Queer · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Gender Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Sex work and related issues