From Sleepless in Seattle to I Seoul You: Korean Gay Men and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Transnational Times
In: Queer and LGBT+ Studies
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In: Queer and LGBT+ Studies
In: Du bois review: social science research on race, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 411-428
ISSN: 1742-0598
AbstractThis is a story about gay/queer globalization unfolded through the narratives of Korean gay men in Seoul. In this paper, I make use of talanoa dialogues to apprehend the way race and racial hierarchies can provide insights into the conditions in which the gay subject in Seoul is intelligible in intercultural interactions. I present these narratives in the format of a thematic talanoa using Pacific Research Methodologies (PRM). In doing so, I advance a unique way to negotiate communication with participants in a cross-cultural setting, rendering myself visible as a racialized (Sāmoan) researcher. Empirically, I argue that the narratives of Korean gay men party to this study demonstrate how the Korea/local–West/global binary is an important referential, in that there exists a structural connection through immigration policies that facilitates a transnational convergence of local and global racial hierarchies. This connection, I also argue, helps to structure and position Whiteness at the apex of racial hierarchies around foreigner subjectivities in South Korea.
In: Queer and LGBT+ Studies
In: The contemporary Pacific: a journal of island affairs, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 327-352
ISSN: 1527-9464