The Self-Understandings and Everyday Lives of Gay Men in Hainan

海南男同性恋者的自我认识与日常生活

• 批准号: ES/V011340/2
• 负责人: James Cummings
• 金额: $ 0.58万
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV011340%2F2
• 关键词: Self; Understandings; Everyday; Lives; Gay

Based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, my doctoral research examined the construction and regulation of sexuality in a context of rapid social, technological and political change. Focusing on the lives of gay men in Hainan, a socio-economically marginal province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), I explored how local, national and global processes play out in everyday life as gay men negotiate liveable lives in relation to shifting fields of people, discourses, spaces and technologies. I offer vital insights into dynamics of sexuality in the PRC and advance the conceptual horizons of global sexualities studies.Over the past 40 years in the PRC, rapid urbanisation, greater geographic mobility, technological development and increased access to information have fostered a proliferation of non-heterosexual identities, communities and ways of life. At the same time, these are curtailed by Confucian notions of a responsibility to 'continue the family line' through heterosexual reproduction, state censorship of sexual diversity in the media, and cuts to public welfare that have entrenched the need to have children as a source of care in later life. Further, socio-economic disparities along regional and urban/rural lines make living non-heterosexual lives in certain sites easier than in others.These issues have been explored within the limited literature on non-heterosexual lives in the PRC. However, existing work has focused on major urban contexts. As such, there is a lack of knowledge on how historical and ongoing dynamics of change and continuity are shaping non-heterosexual lives in smaller cities, towns and rural areas. This is both an empirical knowledge gap and a limitation on current understandings of sexuality. As my research shows, exploring how non-heterosexual lives are shaped by processes of change and continuity beyond global centres of cosmopolitan modernity can open up new avenues of enquiry which, in turn, can expand the meanings of 'sexuality' itself.I have analysed processes through which gay men in Hainan find one another, develop feelings of commonality, navigate the rural, urban and digital spaces in which they live and variously contest, conform to and accommodate the dominant orientation of their lives toward heterosexual marriage and reproduction. These are shown to entail complex entanglements of discourse, technology, desire, embodiment, intersubjectivity, and material relations of co-dependence. As such, I argue for an expanded conception of sexuality that looks beyond the individual, human subject and towards ecologies of power and possibility that shape what counts as a liveable life. I make this argument in dialogue with recent work in social theory that seeks to understand the inseparability of human relationships, institutional discourses, material contexts and environmental systems.The Fellowship will facilitate the publication of this important research as a book and series of articles that significantly advance the field of sexualities studies by expanding the notion of sexuality to include complex relationships between people, discourses, spaces and technologies. These new research directions are vital if contemporary scholarship is to grapple with changing dynamics of sexuality from a cross-cultural perspective in an increasingly complex world. These ideas will also be shared and consolidated through a symposium bringing together scholars addressing related themes. The Fellowship will also enable my research to support LGBT groups in Hainan and across the PRC. This will be done through a series of workshops with the Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) and wider LGBT communities in Hainan. These will result in a co-designed findings report to be shared locally and nationally. This will assist PFLAG in planning their work effectively and will help national LGBT groups understand the contrasting experience of LGBT people in different regions of the PRC.

基于 18 个月的民族志田野调查，我的博士研究考察了社会、技术和政治快速变革背景下性的建构和调节。我关注中华人民共和国（中国）社会经济边缘省份海南省男同性恋者的生活，探讨了当地、国家和全球进程在男同性恋者协商与转变有关的宜居生活时如何在日常生活中发挥作用。人、话语、空间和技术领域。我对中国性行为的动态提供了重要的见解，并推进了全球性行为研究的概念视野。在过去的 40 年里，中国的快速城市化、更大的地理流动性、技术发展和信息获取的增加促进了非性行为的激增。 -异性恋身份、社区和生活方式。与此同时，这些都受到儒家观念的限制，即通过异性生殖来“延续家族血统”的责任、国家对媒体性别多样性的审查，以及对公共福利的削减，这些福利根深蒂固地需要孩子作为来源。以后生活中的照顾。此外，地区和城乡之间的社会经济差异使得某些地区的非异性恋生活比其他地区更容易。有关中国非异性恋生活的有限文献已对这些问题进行了探讨。然而，现有的工作主要集中在主要城市环境上。因此，人们对历史和持续的变化和连续性如何塑造小城市、城镇和农村地区的非异性恋生活缺乏了解。这既是经验知识的差距，也是对当前性理解的限制。正如我的研究表明，探索国际大都会现代性全球中心之外的变化和连续性过程如何塑造非异性恋的生活，可以开辟新的探究途径，从而扩展“性”本身的含义。我分析过海南男同性恋者通过这些过程找到彼此，发展共同感，在他们生活的农村、城市和数字空间中穿行，并进行各种竞争，顺应和适应他们生活中异性婚姻和生育的主导取向。这些被证明需要话语、技术、欲望、体现、主体间性和相互依存的物质关系的复杂纠缠。因此，我主张扩展性的概念，超越个体、人类主体，着眼于塑造宜居生活的权力和可能性生态。我在与最近的社会理论著作的对话中提出了这一论点，这些著作试图理解人际关系、制度话语、物质背景和环境系统的不可分割性。该奖学金将促进这项重要研究作为一本书和一系列文章的出版，这些研究显着通过扩展性的概念以包括人、话语、空间和技术之间的复杂关系来推进性研究领域。如果当代学术要在日益复杂的世界中从跨文化的角度应对不断变化的性动态，这些新的研究方向至关重要。这些想法也将通过研讨会来分享和巩固，研讨会汇集了讨论相关主题的学者。该奖学金还将使我的研究能够支持海南和中国各地的 LGBT 群体。这将通过与男女同性恋父母和朋友 (PFLAG) 以及海南更广泛的 LGBT 社区举办的一系列研讨会来完成。这些将产生一份共同设计的调查结果报告，在当地和全国范围内共享。这将有助于 PFLAG 有效规划其工作，并将帮助全国 LGBT 团体了解中国不同地区 LGBT 人群的不同经历。

项目成果

On the privacy of mental health apps: An empirical investigation and its implications for app development.

关于心理健康应用程序的隐私：实证调查及其对应用程序开发的影响。

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10759-2_2
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Empirical software engineering
• 影响因子: 4.1
• 作者: Iwaya LH

The Everyday Lives of Gay Men in Hainan: Sociality, Space and Time

海南男同性恋者的日常生活：社会性、空间和时间

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Cummings, J.