Sexualities, Transnationalism, and Globalisation: New Perspectives

195 Pages·2021·2.233 MB·English

by  Yanqiu Rachel Zhou, Christina Sinding, and Donald Goellnicht

Sexualities, Transnationalism,
and Globalisation
This innovative book explores the dynamic and contested interactions – including the
mutually constitutive relationships – among sexualities, transnationalism, and globalisation.
Bringing together contributors with a variety of disciplinary, geographic, and theoretical
perspectives, this text explores new theories and trends in sexuality research, including
lived experiences of sexuality in this rapidly globalising world; changing relationships
between sexualities, transnationalism, and globalisation; interventions, activism, and
policy responses to the global challenges of sexual health; and relevant refections on
and implications for equity and social justice in the ongoing processes of contemporary
globalisation. It is comprised of three sections, focusing on: transnational sexualities;
transnational sexual politics; and transnational sexual activism.
Sexualities, Transnationalism, and Globalisation will be of interest to students and scholars
from a range of disciplines and felds, including sociology, sexuality studies, anthropology,
geography, international relations, politics, and public health.
Yanqiu Rachel Zhou is a professor in the Department of Health, Aging and Society
and the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition (IGHC) at McMaster
University, Canada. She has published over forty scholarly articles and is the co-editor
of two books (published by Routledge, 2016 and 2017) and a special issue on Time and
Globalization of the journal Globalizations, 2016. She was the lead editor of a themed
symposium on Transnationalism, Sexuality, and HIV Risk (published in Culture, Health
& Sexuality, 2017).
Christina Sinding is a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, jointly
appointed to the School of Social Work and the Department of Health, Aging and
Society. Her research focuses on the social structuring of lay people’s experiences of illness
and care and their health-related decision making.
Donald Goellnicht (1953–2019) was a professor in the Department of English and Cultural
Studies, McMaster University, Canada. He was formerly Chair of the Department,
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, and Director of the Institute on Globalization and
the Human Condition at McMaster. He made lasting contributions to critical race studies,
diaspora/transnational studies, and queer studies – and, with this collection, brought these
themes into important and lively dialogue.
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Summary: “This innovative book explores the dynamic and contested
interactions- including the mutually constitutive relationship-
among sexualities, transnationalism, and globalization. Sexualities,
Transnationalism and Globalization is of interest to students and scholars
from a range of disciplines and felds, including sociology, sexuality
studies, anthropology, geography, international relations, politics and
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Contents
List of contributors ix
Acknowledgements xii
1 Introduction 1
YANQIU RACHEL ZHOU, DONALD GOELLNICHT, AND CHRISTINA SINDING
PART I
Transnational sexualities: Migration, diasporic spaces, and
sexual citizenship 17
2 Sexualities and borders: Differential movements of queer
migrants within the borderland 19
VERENA HUCKE
3 ‘You can reject me; I can also reject you’: Intersections of
migration, race/ethnicity, and sexuality among Chinese diasporic
gay men in Australia 32
HORAS TH WONG, LIMIN MAO, AND PETER AGGLETON
4 Transnational sexuality: Trajectories of Chinese queer
immigrants to Canada 46
YANQIU RACHEL ZHOU
PART II
Transnational sexual politics: Global markets, gender, and
geopolitics 61
5 Constrained transnational mobility: Filipina sex workers’
navigation of gendered border regimes in Asia 63
MARIA CECILIA HWANG
viii C ontents
6 (Un)seeing the other(s): Transnational sex work, transnational
athletic sponsorship, and multifocalisation in Han Ong’s The
Disinherited 77
STEPHEN HONG SOHN
7 The transnationalisation of online sexual violation: The case of
‘revenge pornography’ as a theoretical and political problematic 92
JEFF HEARN AND MATTHEW HALL
8 Beyond queer liberalism: On queer globalities and regionalism
from postcolonial Hong Kong 107
ALVIN K. WONG
PART III
Transnational sexual activism: Global queer movements, local
experiences, and resistances 121
9 ‘United in diversity’: Resonances of the ‘global gay’ in EU
identity discourses 123
LAURA EIGENMANN
10 Casa Miga: A case of LGBT-led, transnational activism in Latin
America 137
TYLER VALIQUETTE, YURIKO COWPER-SMITH, AND YVONNE SU
11 Progressive LGBTQI movements in a transnational context:
Towards a queer liberation perspective 152
NICK J. MULÉ
12 Heteroactivism: Transnational resistances to LGBT equalities 166
CATHERINE J. NASH AND KATH BROWNE
Index 177
Contributors
Peter Aggleton is an emeritus Scientia Professor at the University of New South
Wales (UNSW Sydney) and an honorary professor in the Centre for Gender
and Global Health at UCL in London. A sociologist and educationalist with
a background in policy studies, international development, psychology, and
health, Peter has worked with national and international agencies for over
twenty-fve years to strengthen responses to HIV and sexual health.
Kath Browne is a professor of Geography at University College Dublin. Her
research has focused on marginalised sexual and gendered lives, exploring how
these can be ameliorated in ways that take place seriously, and also those who
are opposed to sexual and gender equalities, through the concept of heteroac-
tivism (with Catherine Nash and Andrew Gorman-Murray).
Yuriko Cowper-Smith holds a PhD in Political Science and International
Development from the University of Guelph, Canada. Her dissertation
research investigates the knowledge-practices of the Rohingya social move-
ment in Canada. Her broader research interests include migration, stateless-
ness, and social movements.
Laura Eigenmann is a doctoral candidate in the Centre for Gender Studies at the
University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research interests include critical policy
analysis, national and EU identity discourses, LGBTI activism, homonation-
alism, and queer history.
Donald Goellnicht (1953–2019) was a professor in the Department of English
and Cultural Studies, McMaster University, Canada. He was formerly Chair
of the Department, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, and Director of the
Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition at McMaster. He made
lasting contributions to critical race studies, diaspora/transnational stud-
ies, and queer studies – and, with this collection, brought these themes into
important and lively dialogue.
Matthew Hall, PhD, is a Programme Director for Psychology, Arden University;
Editor, Journal of Gender Studies; External Examiner, University of
Northampton; Associate Lecturer, British University in Egypt; Associate
Academic, University of Derby; Senior Fellow of the HEA. As an