Queer Southeast Asia

Shawna Tang, Hendri Yulius Wijaya, Shawna Tang, Hendri Yulius Wijaya

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032340890
• eBook ISBN: 9781000782950
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Asian Politics
• Index: Social Sciences

Tang and Wijaya present a range of new and established scholarly voices, including local activists directly involved in developments in Southeast Asia.

This groundbreaking collection presents the current state of play and longstanding LGBTQ+ debates in this often-overlooked region of Asia. The diversity of both the subject and the region is reflected in the broad scope of topics addressed, from the impact of Japanese queer popular culture on queer Filipinos, to the politics of public toilets in Singapore, and the impact of digital governance on queer communities across ASEAN. Taken in combination, these investigations not only highlight the operations of queer politics in Southeast Asia, but also present a concrete basis to reflect on queer knowledge production in the region.

A vital resource for students and scholars of gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia, or any Queer or LGBTQ+ studies looking beyond the West.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Queer Southeast Asia: Itineraries, Stopovers, and Delays
• 1 An inter-Asia history of transpuan in Indonesia
• 2 Exploring Southeast Asian queer migrant biographies: Queer utopia, capacitations, and debilitations
• 3 Japanese queer popular culture and the production of sexual knowledge in the Philippines
• 4 When the Gay Ivy comes to (U)Town: The globalisation of higher education and the possibilities of queer student activism in Singapore
• 5 Emergent queer identities in 20th century films from Southeast Asia
• 6 Endurance as queer worldmaking in Northern Aceh of Indonesia
• 7 Queer(ing) indigeneity and the Igorot lesbians of Hong Kong
• 8 Keep Singapore clean and chaste: Spatial-sexual discipline in toilet narratives
• 9 Independent and safe panels for youths: Queer comics in a time of Southeast Asian populism
• 10 Viddsee: Queer assemblages of short film circulation, distribution, production, and reception in Singapore
• 11 Ohm Phanphiroj’s Underage: Some queer thoughts on photography and night-time Bangkok
• 12 Digital governance, human rights norms, and ASEAN: Sexuality and gender rights meet surveillance, networks, and data
• 13 Queer Vietnam: Early notes from sexuality studies to activism
• 14 Pedagogy of queer studies beyond empire
• 15 Queer Southeast Asia: An afterword
• Index