AIDS and "Local" Manifestations of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Neoliberal Global South

Language, gender and sexuality in 2020

Gender and Language ◽

10.1558/genl.20311 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Jaspal Naveel Singh

Keyword(s):

Global South ◽

Gender And Sexuality ◽

Diverse Populations ◽

Imagined Community ◽

The World ◽

Global North

The Global South is a postcolonial imagined community that bears the potential to imagine powerful south-south solidarity between the struggles for decoloniality of diverse populations across the world. To prepare our field’s pan-global future, this year-in-review overrepresents literature on gender, sexuality and language from/on the Global South. This decolonial move aims to notice and promote southern tactics of resistance, southern epistemologies and southern theories and evaluate what can be learnt if we look southward on our way forward. Some literature from the Global North will be considered too. The review is structured using three overlapping foci: (1) embodied and linguistic resistance, (2) mediatisation and scale and (3) fragile masculinities. I conclude by suggesting that our research should stay locally situated and globally radical.

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Constructing the digital self in the Global South

Journal of Language and Sexuality ◽

10.1075/jls.00006.cam ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 1-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Baird Campbell ◽

Nell Haynes

Keyword(s):

Special Section ◽

Global South ◽

Gender And Sexuality ◽

The Self ◽

Discursive Practices ◽

Wide Range ◽

Online Spaces ◽

Global North ◽

The Aesthetic ◽

Self Formation

Abstract The papers in this special section examine how people in various contexts of the Global South “construct the self” in online spaces. With examples from Chile, Senegal, and Trinidad, the papers show the wide range of discursive practices, encompassing the textual and the aesthetic, which individuals use to enact gendered and sexual selves online. By privileging gender and sexuality as central components of selfhood, we draw from the longstanding attention paid to gender and sexuality in linguistic studies of identification (see Bucholtz & Hall 2004). In placing this concept within digital worlds, we pay attention to the ways in which daily life is now lived and experienced online. Authors in this issue think critically about practices of self-formation and the performance of gender and sexuality that differ from those that have normalized in the Global North, considering both revolutionary possibility, and re-entrenchment of constraint.

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Introduction

Interpreting the Internet ◽

10.1525/california/9780520284494.003.0001 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Elisabeth Jay Friedman

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Framework ◽

Latin American ◽

Political Representation ◽

Field Research ◽

Legal Reform ◽

Global South ◽

Gender And Sexuality ◽

Information Ecology ◽

Global Trends ◽

Identity Recognition

The introduction sets out the conceptual framework and main subjects of the book. It acquaints readers with a feminist sociomaterial approach, which analyzes technology and society, particularly its gendered aspects, as an integrated whole, by insisting on the need to analyze internet practices in context. It also explains why Latin American feminist and queer counterpublics are ideal sites for the evaluation of global trends in digitally enhanced activism. This has been the Global South region at the forefront of internet adoption, as well as one where long-standing, vibrant, and diverse gender- and sexuality-based organizing has achieved notable successes in terms of political representation, legal reform, and identity recognition. The introduction also delves into why counterpublics are a key “information ecology” in which to study the mutual constitution of internet and society. It then covers the field research upon which the analysis is based, and offers an overview of the remaining chapters.

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Transnational Migration, Gender and Sexuality in the Global South

Gender Questions ◽

10.25159/2412-8457/7346 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Pragna Rugunanan

Keyword(s):

Transnational Migration ◽

Global South ◽

Gender And Sexuality

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Yaariyan, Baithak, Gupshup: Queer Feminist Formations and the Global South

10.36583/kohl/5-1-5 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (Spring) ◽

pp. 31-44

Author(s):

Naveen Minai ◽

Sara Shroff

Keyword(s):

South Asian ◽

Ways Of Knowing ◽

Ethics Of Care ◽

Global South ◽

Gender And Sexuality ◽

Ethical Responsibility ◽

Research Practices ◽

Production Of Knowledge ◽

Transnational Space

In this essay, we join Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s (1999) and Eve Tuck’s (2009) call to decolonize and de-center “damage-centered” research, embedded in settler/colonial ways of knowing. We attend to the ethical responsibility and intimate relationalities that this contemporary moment requires of us as privileged feminist, queer, global south, and South Asian scholars. We introduce yaariyan, baithak, and gupshup to theorize queer feminist care in/as research practices. As ethics of care, compassion, and collectivity, these practices enable us to study and share knowledges together. Building on transnational feminist and queer scholarship (Chowdhury and Philipose 2016; Banerjea et al. 2017), we argue that responsible knowledges mean thinking about methods as relational rather than transactional and relationality as activated and not automatic. We explore how gupshup and baithak provide methodologies of co-production of knowledge, inclusion, accountability, sharing, and reflection. This work must be located in different frameworks of home, diaspora, and language. Pakistan, we contend, is always already a transnational space in which gender and sexuality have been categorized (to deadly consequences) but not contained as words which denote experiences, identities, practices, desires, and histories. It is these words that we reach for in and through our friendship as a condition of possibility of a different kind of knowledge-making.

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