Querying heteronormativity among transnational Pasifika teenagers in New Zealand

An Oceanic approach to language and masculinity

Bibliographic Data

ID3620682
AuthorsBrian W King (0000-0001-9409-7816, City University of Hong Kong, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume21
Issue3
Pages442-464
Publication date2017-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sociolinguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1360-6441 • E-ISSN: 1467-9841
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/josl.12237
OpenAlexW2735702949
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited43

This study aims to contribute to emerging dialogues on language, sexuality and gender, focusing on the performance and subversion of gender and sexual normativities in a New Zealand sexuality education classroom. In terms of theory, the aim is to focus on New Zealand's outlying, unsettled 'global Southern' status. It also aims to heuristically separate New Zealand from the global North to explore local relationships between sexuality and gender that might otherwise be imperceptible in the glare of globalisation. In two critical incidents, transnational Pasifika boys use language to perform what appears to be sexual fluidity and sexual objectification of the self. A transformation occurs in which a local version of hegemonic masculinity is countered, and the analytical purchase of the concept of heteronormativity becomes questionable in this context. Existing Southern theories from Oceania provide a possible pathway to better understanding the sociolinguistics of gender and sexuality in New Zealand and in the world at large

Context (archaeology · Globalization · Hegemony · Heteronormativity · Human sexuality · Linguistics · Masculinity · Objectification · Political science · Politics · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Subversion · Gender Studies · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy

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