(Un)tethered masculinities, (mis)placed modernities: Queering futurity in contemporary Singapore

• Main Author: WOODS, Orlando
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Queering futurity; (un)tethered masculinities; heteronormativity; Chinese families; Singapore; Asian Studies; Gender and Sexuality; Sociology of Culture
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3322; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4576/viewcontent/UntetheredMasculinities_2021_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper considers how socio-political prescriptions can bring about the queering of futurity in Singapore. In Singapore, state-sponsored narratives of progress view futurity in terms that are bound to place, and reproduced through the heteronormative family unit. These factors have caused constru...