Merging mobilities: querying knowledges, actions, and chronotopes in discourses of transcultural relationships from a North/South queer contact zone

Benedict J. L. Rowlett*, Brian W. King

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this article, we query binaries of mobility and immobility in language studies via an empirical focus on language/social practices in a site that bridges the global North and global South. To do so, we work from a Southern praxis perspective to analyze discourses/knowledges informing the performance of accounts from Cambodian men, interviewed about transactional same-sex relationship practices between (ostensibly immobile) local men and (ostensibly mobile) male tourists to Cambodia from the global North. The analysis focuses on a process in which participants’ chronotopic awareness of language shapes a negotiation of power, knowledge, and action with respect to these relationships. Encompassing the discursive positioning of selves and others through the deployment of relevant and affective chronotopes, the talk from these Cambodian men allows us to challenge assumptions about (im)mobility, awareness, agency, sexuality, and power, and demonstrate how these are accessed in multiple ways at this site of North/South contact.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)111-127
Number of pages17
JournalCritical Discourse Studies
Volume20
Issue number2
Early online date14 Feb 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Mar 2023

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Social Sciences(all)

User-Defined Keywords

  • agency
  • Cambodia
  • chronotopes
  • immobility
  • Mobility
  • sexualities

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