Sociology, Gender Studies & Criminology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
J Homosex. 2024 May 11;71(6):1442-1464. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2023.2174471. Epub 2023 Jan 30.
This paper considers queer studies in the global geopolitical hotspot of Asia, as well as how we can reimagine queer theories through both the Covid-19 pandemic and the intensified regional and global superpower competition and geopolitical tensions. It argues for a rethinking of queer studies through today's international relations and geopolitical complications in a sociological political economy. The aim is to connect critical studies with analyses of economic and social class structures, an approach that has been substantiated by the current crises, and to present an expanded queer mobility theory with two brief case studies (mini-critiques) of the current socioeconomic conditions facing marginalized people under Covid-19 and the changing geopolitical landscape. In so doing, this paper actively explores what queer studies can do and can be through the current historical turning point of the pandemic and geopolitical rivalry toward potential post-Covid socioeconomic revival and recovery.
本文探讨了在亚洲这一充满全球地缘政治热点的地区开展酷儿研究的问题，以及我们如何能够通过新冠疫情、区域和全球超级大国竞争加剧以及地缘政治紧张局势来重新想象酷儿理论。本文认为，需要从国际关系和地缘政治复杂性的角度来重新思考酷儿研究，这是一种在社会政治经济学中具有批判性的研究方法。其目的是将批判研究与对经济和社会阶级结构的分析联系起来，这种方法已经被当前的危机所证实，并提出一个扩展的酷儿流动理论，同时用两个简短的案例研究（迷你批判）来分析当前在新冠疫情下边缘化人群所面临的社会经济状况以及地缘政治格局的变化。通过这样做，本文积极探讨了在当前疫情和地缘政治竞争这一历史转折点上，酷儿研究能够做什么以及可能成为什么，以及为潜在的后新冠疫情社会经济复兴和复苏做好准备。
