TY - JOUR
T1 - Tracing trans-regional discursive flows in Pink Dot Hong Kong promotional videos
T2 - (Homo)normativities and nationalism, activism and ambivalence
AU - Rowlett, Benedict J.L.
AU - Go, Christian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
PY - 2021/7/16
Y1 - 2021/7/16
N2 - In this article, we extend discourse analytical research that has focused on Pink Dot events in Singapore to events in Hong Kong. As such we engage queer Sinophone perspectives to examine the simultaneously local and transregional epistemological flows that converge and diverge within the margins of the Sinophone cultural sphere. Using a multimodal analysis of two Pink Dot Hong Kong promotional videos, we investigate the extent to which these videos follow the (homo)normative and (homo)nationalist discursive strategies identified in the literature on Pink Dot Singapore. Our analysis suggests that ambivalences surrounding national identity, citizenship and state-sponsored national values in the Hong Kong videos bring into question readings of the Pink Dot movement as a (homo)nationalist enterprise, thus indicating an emergent relocalization of Pink Dot strategies that draws attention to how queer movements in Hong Kong are currently being shaped within the city’s broader sociopolitical context.
AB - In this article, we extend discourse analytical research that has focused on Pink Dot events in Singapore to events in Hong Kong. As such we engage queer Sinophone perspectives to examine the simultaneously local and transregional epistemological flows that converge and diverge within the margins of the Sinophone cultural sphere. Using a multimodal analysis of two Pink Dot Hong Kong promotional videos, we investigate the extent to which these videos follow the (homo)normative and (homo)nationalist discursive strategies identified in the literature on Pink Dot Singapore. Our analysis suggests that ambivalences surrounding national identity, citizenship and state-sponsored national values in the Hong Kong videos bring into question readings of the Pink Dot movement as a (homo)nationalist enterprise, thus indicating an emergent relocalization of Pink Dot strategies that draws attention to how queer movements in Hong Kong are currently being shaped within the city’s broader sociopolitical context.
KW - Asian LGBT+ activism
KW - Citizenship
KW - Homonationalism
KW - Hong Kong
KW - Multimodal discourse analysis
KW - Normativities
KW - Pink Dot
KW - Queer Sinophone cultures
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85110891866&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1075/jls.20007.row
DO - 10.1075/jls.20007.row
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85110891866
SN - 2211-3770
VL - 10
SP - 157
EP - 179
JO - Journal of Language and Sexuality
JF - Journal of Language and Sexuality
IS - 2
ER -