South Asia and Sexuality: Still | Here

The geopolitics of queer archives: Contested Chineseness and queer Sinophone affiliations between Hong Kong and Taiwan

“…Our theorization of the geopolitics of queer archives is not only confined to the understanding of queer scholarship in Hong Kong and Taiwan against the contested Chineseness, but also yields potential applicability and contributions to other regions in the world where minor-to-minor queer affiliation and circulation of queer knowledge under the constellation of a regional hegemonic center and geopolitical tensions, such as the role of India and Anglophone academia in the production of queer knowledge in South Asia (Arondekar 2023). By examining the significance of geopolitics in shaping queer knowledge production and queer activists' exchanges, we argue that queer attachments between Hong Kong and Taiwan should be understood as a product of geopolitics and the quest for democracy and local identities instead of being reduced to forms of xenophobia (Chong and Pan 2022).…”

From Elsewhere

“…Eschewing traditional formats for reviewing published monographs in the field, a conversation between Ali Altaf Mian, Brian A. Horton and Rumya S. Putcha (2023, this issue) centres the theoretical contributions of three recent books that traverse geopolitical, cultural, sensorial and disciplinary terrain in queerly coalitional, hybridising ways. This is followed by a coda from Anjali Arondekar (2023, this issue) to close out the issue with directions for commencement. Ultimately, this themed issue brings together scholars of different academic and artistic disciplines in all of their disparate assemblages to illuminate the ways in which conceptual, theoretical, physical and embodied manifestations of space and place intersect with gender, sexuality, race, caste, socioeconomic status, religion, nationhood and other axes of identity in South Asia.…”