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Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality - Joseph Comer

Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality

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Buch | Softcover
252 Seiten
2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-07283-8 (ISBN)
CHF 69,80 inkl. MwSt
This book critically unpacks the why and how around everyday rhetorics and slogans promoting global LGBTQ equality. Examining the means by which particular discourses of progress and hope are circulated globally, it offers unique insights into how LGBTQ livelihoods, relationships, and social movements are legitimated and valued in contemporary society.

Adopting an innovative critical discourse-ethnographic approach, Comer draws on scholarship from the sociolinguistics of global mobility, queer linguistics, and digital media studies, offering in-depth analyses of representations of LGBTQ identity across a range of domains. The volume examines semiotic linkages between: LGBTQ tourism marketing; Cape Town, South Africa, as a locus for contemporary ideologies of global mobility and equality; diversity management practices framing LGBTQ equality as a business imperative; and, humanitarian discourses within transnational LGBTQ advocacy. Autoethnographic vignettes and principles from within queer theory are incorporated by Comer’s critical discourse-ethnographic approach, giving voice to personal experience in order to sharpen scholarly understanding of the relationships between everyday ‘social voices’, globalized neoliberal political economy, and the media.

Taken together, the volume expansively (if queerly) maps what Comer refers to as ‘the mediatization of equality’, and will be of interest to graduate students and scholars in critical discourse studies, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, as well as those working across such fields as media studies, queer studies, and sociology.

Joseph Comer completed his PhD in English Linguistics (Language and Communication) at the University of Bern, Switzerland, in 2019. He is now an associated researcher with the Centre for the Study of Language and Society at the University of Bern.

San Francisco, January 2016

1. INTRODUCTION:
THE MEDIATIZED MOBILITY OF PEOPLE, POLITICS, AND PRIDE

Cape Town, April 2016

2. ‘EQUALITY ON THE SEA’: INTERROGATING LGBTQ PRIVILEGE IN THE TOURISM DISCOURSE OF 'AFRICA'S GAY CAPITAL'

3. REPRESENTING THE SPECTRUM: THE DISCURSIVE PRODUCTION OF QUEER HETEROTOPIA AT AN LGBTQ TOURISM CONVENTION

London, June 2016

4. COUNTING ‘THE COST OF DISCRIMINATION’: MANAGING LGBTQ DIVERSITY AT THE ECONOMIST’S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

5. SLOGANIZING AND 'MATERIALIZING' EQUALITY: SCALES OF SOLIDARITY IN THE DISCOURSE OF TRANSNATIONAL LGBTQ ADVOCACY

Sydney, February 2017

6. CONCLUSION: QUEER COSMOPOLITANISM AND THE SCALING OF UTOPIA

Melbourne, August 2020

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse
Zusatzinfo 34 Halftones, black and white; 34 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-032-07283-0 / 1032072830
ISBN-13 978-1-032-07283-8 / 9781032072838
Zustand Neuware
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