From Queer Studies on Asia to Asian Queer Studies

Authors

Mark J. McLelland, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

128627

Publication Details

McLelland, M. (2018). From Queer Studies on Asia to Asian Queer Studies. Sexualities: studies in culture and society, 21 (8), 1271-1275.

Abstract

My history of engagement with Asian Queer Studies is almost contemporaneous with the history of the journal Sexualities whose contribution to the field of sexuality studies we are currently celebrating. This short piece looks at the emergence of the field of Asian Queer Studies across the past 20 years and reflects my own research interests and biases to some extent (hence mostly addressing East Asia). I hope it will at least give a sense of how much the field has been transformed in this comparatively short time frame and point to some of the major developments that have brought about this transformation.