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Title: OVERCOMING HETERONORMATIVE HEGEMONY: QUEER RESISTANCE TO NEOLIBERALISM IN CHILE
Authors: SHYAM ANAND SINGH
Keywords: Heteronormative, Hegemony, Neoliberalism, LGBT, Queer, Chile
Issue Date: 21-Aug-2015
Citation: SHYAM ANAND SINGH (2015-08-21). OVERCOMING HETERONORMATIVE HEGEMONY: QUEER RESISTANCE TO NEOLIBERALISM IN CHILE. ScholarBank@NUS Repository.
Abstract: This study seeks to investigate two main issues concerning the politics of sexual identity in Chile: firstly, what accounts for the propagation of discriminatory discourses in contemporary gay culture? Secondly, what strategies are organizations employing to overcome these forces of exclusion? Employing a post-structuralist theory of heteronormative hegemony, I argue that the increased commodification of gay culture induced by neoliberalism has enhanced the legibility of gay identity through heteronormative socialization. In the process, sexual minorities internalize and reproduce key forms of societal discrimination amongst themselves, chief of which has been class and gender. Following twenty years of lacklustre progress, several LGBT organizations have adopted queer strategies as a counter-measure. I contend that the appropriation of queer approaches has been relatively successful due to its emphasis on multivocality which emphasises norms of inclusion and empathy. My findings are collated from two months of fieldwork and in-depth interviews in Santiago, Chile.
URI: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/122575
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