Queer Worldings: The Messy Art of Being Global in Manila and New York

This essay is an exploration of queer (im)possibilities and of the “worlding” of urban spaces by focusing on voices from below. Using ethnographic fieldwork and queer theory to bear upon a conceptualization of “queer “and urban world‐making in terms of mess, this essay focuses on the lives of two Fi...

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Published in:Antipode 2015-06, Vol.47 (3), p.n/a
Main Author: Manalansan IV, Martin F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cities
Ethnography
everyday life
Filipinos
Global Cities
Homosexuality
Manila
Manila, Philippines
mess
Modernity
New York
Philippines
Politics
Practice
queer
Queer theory
Sexuality
Spatial analysis
U.S.A
Urban Areas
Urban space
Working Class
worlding
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Summary:This essay is an exploration of queer (im)possibilities and of the “worlding” of urban spaces by focusing on voices from below. Using ethnographic fieldwork and queer theory to bear upon a conceptualization of “queer “and urban world‐making in terms of mess, this essay focuses on the lives of two Filipino working class queers living in Manila and New York. Located at the fringes of gay global modernity, these subjects inhabit recalcitrant and chaotic spaces and quotidian practices that re‐narrate and resist the idealized integrative spatial order of global queer cities. This essay contributes to a critical theorization of queerness and urban spatial politics within a transnational framework.
ISSN:0066-4812
1467-8330
DOI:10.1111/anti.12061