Quiet politics: Queer organizing in corporate Singapore

IF 2.1 2区 社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY
Minwoo Jung
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Abstract

How could queer activism for social change be possible in an authoritarian but neoliberal environment? What does neoliberalism imply for queer struggles in non-Western contexts where liberal democracy is absent or non-existent? This article introduces the concept of ‘quiet politics’ to establish a new theoretical lens for understanding queer organizing under global capitalism. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interview data on the rise of corporate diversity activism in Singapore, it analyzes how queer employees navigate the contradictions of neoliberal capitalism in multinational corporations. The concept of quiet politics helps us understand the nuanced ways in which queer subjects ‘quietly’ mobilize themselves through a negotiation of neoliberalism, queer politics, and the authoritarian government that persecutes homosexuality. In doing so, this article challenges the Western notion of queer liberalism and sheds new light on the complex entanglement of neoliberal capitalism, corporate diversity, contentious politics, and queer activism from a global perspective.

安静的政治:新加坡企业中的酷儿组织
在一个专制但又新自由主义的环境下,酷儿社会变革行动如何可能?在自由民主缺失或不存在的非西方背景下,新自由主义对酷儿斗争意味着什么?本文引入“安静政治”的概念,为理解全球资本主义下的酷儿组织建立一个新的理论视角。通过对新加坡企业多元化行动主义兴起的人种学田野调查和访谈数据,本书分析了酷儿员工如何在跨国公司中应对新自由主义资本主义的矛盾。安静政治的概念帮助我们理解酷儿主体通过新自由主义、酷儿政治和迫害同性恋的威权政府之间的谈判“安静地”动员自己的微妙方式。在此过程中,本文挑战了西方酷儿自由主义的概念,并从全球视角揭示了新自由主义资本主义、企业多样性、有争议的政治和酷儿行动主义之间的复杂纠缠。
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Sociological Review
Sociological Review SOCIOLOGY-
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期刊介绍: The Sociological Review has been publishing high quality and innovative articles for over 100 years. During this time we have steadfastly remained a general sociological journal, selecting papers of immediate and lasting significance. Covering all branches of the discipline, including criminology, education, gender, medicine, and organization, our tradition extends to research that is anthropological or philosophical in orientation and analytical or ethnographic in approach. We focus on questions that shape the nature and scope of sociology as well as those that address the changing forms and impact of social relations. In saying this we are not soliciting papers that seek to prescribe methods or dictate perspectives for the discipline. In opening up frontiers and publishing leading-edge research, we see these heterodox issues being settled and unsettled over time by virtue of contributors keeping the debates that occupy sociologists vital and relevant.
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