Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality

• Main Author: Comer, Joseph
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2021; Knowledge Unlatched GmbH; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse
• Subjects: Advocacy Discourse; Affective Legitimation; Business Case; Closing Reception; Cosmopolitanism; Cultural and media studies; Cultural Sexuality; Cultural Studies; De Waterkant; Equality; Equality in mass media; Gay Capital; Gays; Gender studies, gender groups; Global Queer; Globalization; Good Life; Grammar & Language Usage; History; History and Archaeology; JBSF2 Gender studies: men and boys; Language and Identity; Language and Linguistics; Language and Media; Language Arts; Language: history and general works; Language: reference and general; LGBT Diversity; LGBT Traveller; LGBTI Community; LGBTQ Advocacy; LGBTQ Equality; LGBTQ Identity; LGBTQ Inclusion; LGBTQ Life; LGBTQ Medium; LGBTQ People; LGBTQ Politics; LGBTQ Right; LGBTQ Spectrum; LGBTQ Subject; Linguistics; Media Studies; Nonfiction; Queer Liberation; Queer Linguistics; Queer theory; Sexual minorities; Sexuality - Gender Studies; Social groups, communities and identities; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociolinguistics; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; Young Men; LGBTQ Inclusion; Good Life; LGBTQ Equality; LGBT Traveller; De Waterkant; Gay Capital; LGBTQ Identity; Business Case; LGBTI Community; LGBT Diversity; LGBTQ Life; Young Men; Advocacy Discourse; LGBTQ Advocacy; LGBTQ Spectrum; Queer Linguistics; Queer Liberation; LGBTQ Medium; Closing Reception; LGBTQ People; LGBTQ Right; Global Queer; LGBTQ Politics; LGBTQ Subject; Affective Legitimation
• ISBN: 9780367521721; 0367521725; 9781032072838; 1032072830; 9781000437140; 1000437159; 1003087965; 9781000437157; 9781003087960; 1000437140
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003087960

This book critically unpacks the why and how around everyday rhetorics and slogans promoting global LGBTQ equality. Examining the means by which particular discourses of progress and hope are circulated globally, it offers unique insights into how LGBTQ livelihoods, relationships, and social movements are legitimated and valued in contemporary society. Adopting an innovative critical discourse-ethnographic approach, Comer draws on scholarship from the sociolinguistics of global mobility, queer linguistics, and digital media studies, offering in-depth analyses of representations of LGBTQ identity across a range of domains. The volume examines semiotic linkages between: LGBTQ tourism marketing; Cape Town, South Africa, as a locus for contemporary ideologies of global mobility and equality; diversity management practices framing LGBTQ equality as a business imperative; and, humanitarian discourses within transnational LGBTQ advocacy. Autoethnographic vignettes and principles from within queer theory are incorporated by Comer’s critical discourse-ethnographic approach, giving voice to personal experience in order to sharpen scholarly understanding of the relationships between everyday ‘social voices’, globalized neoliberal political economy, and the media. Taken together, the volume expansively (if queerly) maps what Comer refers to as ‘the mediatization of equality’, and will be of interest to graduate students and scholars in critical discourse studies, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, as well as those working across such fields as media studies, queer studies, and sociology.