Topological spaces of embodied becoming: Queens, queerness and (infra)structural subterfuge in Singapore

• Main Author: WOODS, Orlando
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Infrastructural bodies; topological space; drag queens; Queer Asia; Singapore; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/123
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper considers the political potential that emerges when theoriza- tions of the body-as-infrastructure are brought into conversation with theorizations of topological space. It argues that the infrastructural body provides an interface through which structural norms can be destabilized, and th...