Queering the culture: how does the gay discourse change if we take cross cultural communication seriously?
| dc.contributor.author | Jacques, Luke | en |
| dc.contributor.author | AsiaPacificQueer Network | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-10-20T02:35:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-10-20T02:35:25Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2005 | en_AU |
| dc.description.abstract | Body theory has been an area of growth, ambivalence, and politics in the last twenty years, yet the graft with ‘Asianness' remains unstable. Beyond generalised tropes of Orientalism, close textual analysis is required to understand the sexualised context of the non-Western gay male body. This essay works through the multiple readings of gay foreign bodies represented within both Thai and Australian popular culture and academic texts. Through relevant textual analysis, an examination into cultural meanings, readership practices, and appropriation by and from Western media culture probes the relationship between images of ‘gayness’ and Thai ‘gay’ identity. This essay investigates the semiotic construction of ‘gay’ discourses in both Thai and Western popular images for both the Thai and Western reader. A critique of how ‘gay’ is translated, embodied, and defined within representations and images in Thai popular culture demonstrates that Thai ‘queer’ communities resist neo-colonialist discourses by selectively appropriating particular Western gay terminology and identities in order to create distinctly Thai discourses of ‘gayness’. | en_AU |
| dc.description.sponsorship | AsiaPacifiQueer Network, Australian National University | en_AU |
| dc.format.extent | 17 pages | en_AU |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_AU |
| dc.identifier.citation | Jacques, L (2005, July). Queering the culture: how does the gay discourse change if we take cross cultural communication seriously? Paper presented at Sexualities, Genders and Rights in Asia: 1st International Conference of Asian Queer Studies. Bangkok, Thailand: AsiaPacifiQueer Network, Mahidol University; Australian National University | en_AU |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/8685 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_AU | en_AU |
| dc.provenance | " ... as chair of the organising committee for the conference I give my permission for the permanent archiving of the papers. All authors whose papers appear on the site gave their permission for open access to these papers" - from email dated 26/9/11, Professor Peter Jackson, School of Culture, History and Language, ANU | en_AU |
| dc.publisher | Canberra, ACT: The Australian National University | en_AU |
| dc.rights | Author/s retain copyright | en_AU |
| dc.source | Sexualities, genders and rights in Asia : 1st international Conference of Asian Queer Studies, Ambassador Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand 7-9 July 2005 | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay rights -- Asia -- Congresses. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay culture -- Asia -- Congresses. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay culture -- Asia -- Social conditions -- Congresses. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay community -- Asia -- Congresses. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay community. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay culture. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gay rights. | en_AU |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Asia. | en_AU |
| dc.title | Queering the culture: how does the gay discourse change if we take cross cultural communication seriously? | en_AU |
| dc.type | Conference paper | en_AU |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2005 | |
| local.contributor.affiliation | Jacques, Luke, Murdoch University, Perth Western Australia | en_AU |
| local.description.notes | The conference was held Bangkok, Thailand, 7-9 July 2005 and convened by the AsiaPacifiQueer Network. ANU was the host organisation for this network, and the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies provided funding support. ANU was acknowledged as a co-sponsor of the conference. | en_AU |
| local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | u4142396 | en_AU |
| local.type.status | Published Version | en_AU |