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Ways of speaking about queer space in Tokyo: disorientated knowledge and counter-public space
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Suganuma, K, Ways of speaking about queer space in Tokyo: disorientated knowledge and counter-public space, Japanese Studies, 31, (3) pp. 345-358. ISSN 1037-1397 (2011) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2011 Taylor and Francis
DOI: doi:10.1080/10371397.2011.619168
Abstract
The city of Tokyo has been a space where numerous forms of sexual subcultures and their
histories have been born. This paper discusses one possible way of understanding queer space in
Tokyo. Examining the discourses concerning Shinjuku Ni-choŻme, a queer neighbourhood in
Tokyo, I argue that this queer space functions as a discursive site of containment as well as
resistance to hetero-normative narratives of the metropolis. Drawing on queer theories that focus
on the notion of space, in this paper I demonstrate that queer space is often marginalised by
mainstream society, but at the same time it can be a critical site through which to investigate
hetero-normativity. I suggest that queers themselves sometimes deploy their own delegitimised
status to construct a queer counter-public space that intervenes in and disorients the linear
narrative of hetero-normative views.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Gender studies |
Research Field: | Gender relations |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in human society |
UTAS Author: | Suganuma, K (Dr Katsuhiko Suganuma) |
ID Code: | 93406 |
Year Published: | 2011 |
Deposited By: | School of Humanities |
Deposited On: | 2014-07-31 |
Last Modified: | 2018-03-13 |
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