Event overview
Peter Jackson, Professor in Thai cultural studies at the Australian National University, discusses the differences between emergent queer cultures in East and Southeast Asia, and LGBTQ cultures in other parts of the world.
Peter Jackson's public seminar, in the Centre for Postcolonial Studies seminar series, draws on several lines of research in Thai queer history to argue that twenty-first century East and Southeast Asian queer cultures are diverging from LGBTQ cultures in the (post)Christian West and other world regions, such as the Muslim societies of the Middle East and Africa. In particular, it addresses diverging fundamentalist and supernatural trends in Asian religions; capitalism as a domain of queer autonomy in Asia; and the historical roles of “non-colonised” Thailand and Japan in the emergence of modern queer cultures in Southeast and East Asia. The aim is to critique twentieth-century theorisations of religion and modernity, capitalism, and postcoloniality, as a starting point for developing analytical models better capable of describing and accounting for the diversity of queer cultures that inhabit the early twenty-first century world, which we might refer to as 'divergent queer modernities'.
Dates & times
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1 Dec 2014 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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