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

Rethinking Queer (Asian) Studies: Geopolitics, Covid-19, and Post-Covid Queer Theories and Mobilities

“…Methodologically, we can further queer/destabilize and mobilize our approaches to queer Asia in particular, and marginalized populations in the Global South in general, to break the boundary and the binary between cultural/critical analyses and materialist/empirical studies to further expand queer theories and methodologies, as shown in this paper and other studies (e.g. Rowlett & King, 2022;Wei, 2020) cited herein.…”

“…Unlike the common view of mobility as the movements of people, goods, and capital, this theory of queer mobility attributes population movements and cultural flows directly to social class migration/stagnation when new economic conditions and opportunities in the rise of Asia have afforded new forms of mobilizations for younger generations, and both continued and reshaped existing socioeconomic inequalities. This approach echoes recent critical and empirical studies to problematize various forms of conceptual and ontological mobilities in queer Asia (Martin et al, 2019;Rowlett & King 2022), and helps reframe queer mobilities for my case studies below. The two case studies are based on publicized information reported in the news media.…”

Globalisation, Geopolitics, and Gender in Professional Communication

“…To be appropriately reflexive in this way requires resisting the urge to treat data from numerous countries (especially the Global South) merely as more grist for the Northern theory-making mill (Milani and Lazar 2017). It is important instead to engage in a Southern praxis of intervention whereby we challenge hegemony to create new ways of thinking (Lazar 2020), letting previously marginalised knowledges mediate our own (Rowlett and King 2022). It is much more likely that we can enable this type of mediation if we position academic geopolitics as a relational process, examining the quantity of knowledges that are part of the conversation.…”

“…If we hope to succeed, we need to be clear about our own 'locus of enunciation' -a specific geographical, historical, bodily and ideological context from which one is speaking (Menezes de Sousa 2007) (see Chapter 7). Following through, one must then attend in the research context to the gaze that it makes relevant, ideally providing a detailed analysis of the relationality of researcher and researched, in order to explore 'how local knowledges are seen to mediate the knowledges of the researchers (and vice versa), impacting and reshaping the locus of enunciation as such' (Rowlett and King 2022). It is a type of mediated learning that aligns with feminist ethnography's commitment to seeing researchers and participants as partners in discovery (Hall and Davis 2021;.…”