The Social Sciences in the Asian Century

Johnson, Carol; Mackie, Vera; Morris–Suzuki, Tessa

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“…Caluya, 2019;Yue, 2016). While questioning the colonial worlding of the West is a more general imperative (Chen, 2010;Kulpa and Mizielinska, 2011;Yue, 2017), it has particular significance in Sydney, given that the city's material and imaginative implications in 'Asia' have long been an important preoccupation of both geopolitical and economic elites and critical scholars, activists and artists (Ang, 2016;Johnson et al, 2010Johnson et al, , 2015Martin et al, 2008;Walker and Sobocinska, 2012). More specifically, in the case of this research, my analysis joins a number of others in suggesting the necessarily polyvalent nature of worlding Sydney in relation to an Asian future (Ang, 2016;Martin et al, 2015), and calling for worldings that can simultaneously locate Sydney in relation to its colonial pasts and presents and imagine Sydney otherwise, beyond colonial categories.…”

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‘We’re in Asia’: Worlding LGBTQI+ activism otherwise in Sydney

Ruez

2020

Urban Studies

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Building on recent work in postcolonial urban studies that has developed more genuinely plural approaches to urban theorising, this article poses the problem of ‘worlding’ in relation to urban LGBTQI+ activism in Sydney, Australia. Specifically, the article examines how Sydney is variously worlded as or against ‘Asia’ in public debate around LGBTQI+ politics and in the imaginaries of activists living in Sydney. These worldings are shown to be an important aspect of queer activisms and urbanisms in Sydney, and I argue that attention to this worlding can productively complement a renewed focus on place and specificity in queer urban literatures. While imagining Sydney or Australia as part of Asia is itself no guarantee of productive politics or of decentring epistemologies, the article argues that some of these worldings do provide an occasion and a provocation to think elsewhere and otherwise in ways that are responsive to the specific character of White Australia’s colonial pasts and presents, while also generatively (dis)locating Sydney beyond the ‘West’.

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‘We’re in Asia’: Worlding LGBTQI+ activism otherwise in Sydney

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2020

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The Social Sciences in the Asian Century

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‘We’re in Asia’: Worlding LGBTQI+ activism otherwise in Sydney

‘We’re in Asia’: Worlding LGBTQI+ activism otherwise in Sydney

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