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Title
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Neo-normativity, the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and latrinalia: The demonstration of a concept on non-heterosexual performativities
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| Author(s) |
Liu, Edgar Yue Lap, Faculty of Science, UNSW
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| Resource Type |
Thesis
PhD Doctorate
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| Supervisor(s) |
Dunn, Kevin M, Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, UNSW
Shaw, Wendy S, Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, UNSW
Sharpe, Scott, Physical, Environmental & Mathematical Sciences, Australian Defence Force Academy, UNSW
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| Keyword(s) |
Latrinalia
Sydney
Mardi Gras
Abjection
Queer
performativity
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| Date |
2009 |
| Description/Abstract |
This thesis uses the theory of abjection to understand differentiations in non-heterosexual identity performances in two distinct spaces - the 2005 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (SGLMG) parade and its associated press coverage, and latrinalia (graffiti found inside public toilets). At the same time, this thesis also presents evidence for a new concept of neo-normativity, where the stereotypical is normalised, both internally and externally, and actively reproduced. Neo-normativity, in turn, succeeds in explaining the many abjected relationships that between non-heterosexual communities and the stereotypical and quintessentialised performances. At the 2005 SGLMG parade such quintessentialised (or neo-normalised) performances were treated with both contempt - for being stereotypical and narrowly representative of the very diversity of non-heterosexual communities - as well as a tool for attracting commercial sponsorships which have growingly become an integral part to the continued survival of the annual parade. On a different level, another expression of abject was also revealed when these neo-normalised performances are persistently criticised by academics, news reporting and official photography for being stereotypical and non-representative which in itself are both a recognition as well as an ejection of the non-normative aspects of non-heterosexualities. Such an expression of abject was also evident in latrinalia found in several public toilet facilities throughout Greater Sydney were the interplay of desire and ejection were played out in a more covert manner, all the while highlighting the marginality of non-heterosexualities in these presumably heteronormative spaces. This application of abject theory emphasises neo-normative performances as permanently peripheral, a marginality of which makes these performances (and identities) intrinsically Queer. |
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EN |
| Rights |
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| Print Availability |
T/2009/62 (Ask at Level 2 Information Desk, UNSW Library) |
| Citation Link |
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43377 |
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