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Queer Bangkok: 21st century markets, media, and rights

By Peter Jackson

Book information

Publisher
Hong Kong University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
988808304X, 9789888083046, 9888083058, 9789888083053
Google Books ID
AVlOvf2jXCMC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6072091 bytes)
Series
Queer Asia
Pages
320\321
Scanned
no
Time added
2013-06-08 13:27:19

Description

This book analyses the roles of the market and media -- especially cinema and the Internet -- in these transformations, and considers the ambiguous consequences that the growing commodification and mediatisation of queer lives have had for LGBT rights in Thailand. A key finding is that in the early 21st Century processes of global queering are leading to a growing Asianisation of Bangkok's queer cultures. This book traces Bangkok's emergence as a central focus of an expanding regional network linking gay, lesbian and transgender communities in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, the Philippines and other rapidly developing East and Southeast Asian societies.

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