Pride in Asia - Negotiating Ideologies, Localness, and Alternative Futures

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Male femininity, citizenship, and democracy in the linguistic landscape of a 'pride' protest in Bangkok; 3. Landscaping identity politics and class struggle in the Metro Manila pride march; 4. Challenging heteronormativity and reifying tai-ness: the linguistic landscape of Taiwan LGBT+ pride; 5. 'Asia's world city' as Homotopia? Surveying tensions in the linguistic landscape of the Hong Kong gay games; 6. Conclusion; 7. Navigating Asian pride from sexual citizenship and governmentality perspectives: commentary by Mie Hiramoto; References.

Summary

This Element provides a transregional overview of Pride in Asia, exploring the multifaceted nature of Pride in contemporary LGBTQIA+ events in Thailand, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. This collaborative research that combines individual studies draws on linguistic landscapes as an analytical and methodological approach. Each section examines the different manifestations of Pride as a discourse and the affordances and limitations of this discourse in facilitating the social, political, and cultural projects of LGBTQIA+ people in Asia, illustrating both commonalities and specificities in Asian Pride movements. Analyzing a variety of materials such as protest signs, t-shirts, and media reports, each section illustrates how modes of semiosis, through practice, intersect notions of gender and sexuality with broader social and political formations. The authors thus emphasize the need to view Pride not as a uniform global phenomenon but as a dynamic, locally shaped expression of LGBTQIA+ solidarity.

Product details

• Authors: Li-Chi Chen, Christian Go, Mie Hiramoto, Hiramoto Mie, Benedict J. L. Rowlett, Benedict J. L. (Hong Kong Baptist Univers Rowlett, Pavadee Saisuwan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2025
• EAN: 9781009565370
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0956537-0
• No. of pages: 104
• Series: Elements in Language, Gender and Sexuality
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Asia, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Social issues & processes, Gender studies, gender groups, Gay & Lesbian studies, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Sexual Behaviour, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics