‘Queer’ Asia

Decolonising and Reimagining Sexuality and Gender

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ID19948932
AuthorsJ Daniel Luther (0000-0002-8923-4940), Jennifer Ung Loh, Matthew Waites
Year2019
Publication date2019-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Venue‘Queer’ Asia (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherZed Books (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781350222083
OpenAlexW3124100005
Open LibraryOL35831477M
ISBN9781350222083
LanguageEN
Citations received16

Queer studies is now a rapidly expanding field, as scholars from a variety of disciplines seek to address the long-running marginalisation of queer perspectives and experiences. But there has so far been little effort to unify the study of queer communities outside the West, and much of the current writing views these communities through a narrowly Western lens. Building on the work of the annual Queer Asia conference, which the editors helped to establish, this collection represents the most comprehensive work to date on queer studies in an Asian context. Featuring case studies and original research from across the continent, covering the Middle East, South and East Asia, and Asian diasporas, the collection offers a genuinely pan-Asian perspective which places queer Asian identities and movements in dialogue with each other, rather than within a Western framework. By considering how queerness is imagined within plural Asian experiences and contexts, the contributors

Field (mathematics) · Political science · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · asia · Gay & Lesbian Studies · Minorities · Sexual minorities

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