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Title: | PLAYING SOLITAIRE: QUEERING THE SPATIO-TEMPORALITIES OF SINGLEHOOD AMONG ADULT SINGAPOREANS | Authors: | TAN QIAN HUI | Keywords: | Singlehood, queer theory, queer art of failure, Deleuze, spatio-temporal, intimacy, reproduction | Issue Date: | 22-Oct-2021 | Citation: | TAN QIAN HUI (2021-10-22). PLAYING SOLITAIRE: QUEERING THE SPATIO-TEMPORALITIES OF SINGLEHOOD AMONG ADULT SINGAPOREANS. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | Abstract: | Set within the socio-cultural milieu of Singapore, this thesis seeks to examine how single individuals across genders, sexualities and age groups experience space-time. By deploying qualitative research methods including interviews and ‘deep hanging out’, I generate empirical data that queer/problematise single living on intimate and temporal fronts. I analyse my data vis-a-vis a customised assemblage of queer (Halberstam’s queer art of failure) and Deleuzean (e.g. lines of flight, rhizomes and assemblages) concepts. Accordingly, I demonstrate how the ‘failure’ to couple (appropriately) serves as lines of flight from intimate-temporal regimes (i.e. amato-capitalist repro-chrono-norms) sedimented by Singapore’s paternalistic state and conservative moral majority. In instances when/whereby a deterritorialising flight might not be plausible, I show that singles are still capable of (re)assembling/(re)mapping elements within their space-time and/or intimate lives as they deem fit. Overall, this thesis offers novel insights to the literature on the geographies of singlehood as well as queer studies. | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/216508 |
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