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Tan, Kok Kee.

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Stand up for Singapore? Gay men and the cultural politics of national belonging in the Lion City.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Stand up for Singapore? Gay men and the cultural politics of national belonging in the Lion City./
Author:	Tan, Kok Kee.
Description:	246 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-01, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International73-01A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3479359
ISBN:	9781124976686

Stand up for Singapore? Gay men and the cultural politics of national belonging in the Lion City.
Tan, Kok Kee.

Stand up for Singapore? Gay men and the cultural politics of national belonging in the Lion City. - 246 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-01, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011.

This dissertation ethnographically examines how Chinese-Singaporean gay men articulate their aspirations for national belonging within a recalcitrant state and its nation-building programs. These men expose the artificiality of the nation and its categories of belonging. Even as the state compels them to submit to its call for economic and biological (re)productivity, it also chastises them for their allegedly excessive individualism. Yet, in the corporeal spaces of everyday life, they navigate a social landscape structured by the very real practices of an authoritarian state that criminalizes their sexuality. By ethnographically charting how gay men comply with and resist discourses and practices that position them both inside and outside their nation, I argue that the illiberal state achieves its political legitimacy by successfully convincing citizens that only it can secure Singapore's continuous economic growth. I further assert that within Singapore's strongly communitarian political framework, gay citizens who stress their commonalities with their non-gay counterparts tend to attain more social acceptance than those who focus solely on their sexuality.

ISBN: 9781124976686Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Stand up for Singapore? Gay men and the cultural politics of national belonging in the Lion City.
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