Introduction: Global Intimate Economies: Discontents and Debates

Hofmann, Susanne; Moreno, Adi

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“…Secondly, this study builds a constructive dialogue between urban sociology and sexuality studies by examining the ways in which lesbians’ economic and intimate lives are interlinked in the city. It extends beyond previous research on the commodification of intimacy, which has predominantly focused on commercial market arrangements amid the rise of transnational intimate economies, such as the care, sex and reproduction industries (Constable, 2009; Hofmann & Moreno, 2016). I argue for the importance of examining the complex interplay between intimacy and commodification experienced by socially marginalised groups of women in their everyday urban lives.…”

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“…It also reveals the injustices that lesbians experience in the workplace and consumer market. Building on scholarly debates around the commodification of intimacy (Constable, 2009; Hofmann & Moreno, 2016; Zelizer, 2005), to which I turn below, I seek to advance the theoretical discussion by highlighting different types of connections between the intimate relations and commodified relations involved in lesbians’ urban experiences of creating the space to live the life they want.…”

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The interplay between intimacy and commodification: Queer agency and vulnerability amid neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics

2023

The Sociological Review

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This article examines the ways in which lesbians’ economic and intimate lives are closely intertwined amid neoliberal development in the urban landscape. Previous research on queer urban life has primarily drawn attention to commodified gay neighbourhoods and other sites for sexual consumption, which are often marketised as part of a liberal and queer-friendly urban landscape, in Euro-American contexts. Such a focus is not adequate, however, to capture the complex interplay between intimacy and commodification in contemporary societies. Drawing upon interviews with 35 lesbians in Beijing, this study shows how the market is experienced by lesbians as a site of queer agency and vulnerability under neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics. The findings reveal ‘commodified forms of intimacy’, through which lesbians actively engage in the labour market and (queer-targeted) pink market in order to develop their intimate relations. Meanwhile, ‘intimatised forms of commodification’ illustrate how women’s gendered and sexual expressions are closely policed and evaluated in the workplace as a site of both economic production and the reproduction of social norms. Participants were conscious of their vulnerable position as women and lesbians in the marketplace, but they were active in strategising ways to navigate urban landscapes of heteronormativity and gender inequalities. This article helps to develop a deeper understanding of the complicated and contradictory impacts of neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics on queer communities. It contributes to urban sociology and sexuality studies by mapping the multiple connections between commodified relations and intimate relations in the neoliberal city.

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The interplay between intimacy and commodification: Queer agency and vulnerability amid neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics

2023

The Sociological Review

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“…The contributions of these studies undertaken in extractive sites allow us to emphasize the dimension of sexual or intimate economies (Constable 2009;Hofmann & Moreno 2016;Piscitelli 2016), and the specificities that this dimension takes on at extractive sites (Cabrapan Duarte 2020). We believe that there is a need to explore the diverse forms of sexual-affective and economic relationships that arise from commercial sex and how the actors involved therein signify it, without necessarily circumscribing or limiting themselves to it.…”

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Gender and natural resource extraction in Latin America: Feminist engagements with geopolitical positionality

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Duarte

2021

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This article resituates the debate on approaches to gender in contexts of natural resource extraction in Latin America and, subsequently, outlines an intersectional, feminist proposal focused on geopolitical positionality, which points to the complex and global power relations that (re)position individuals and collectivities residing in spaces that have geopolitical value in a gendered way. This article draws on both empirical and theoretical research in/on extractive contexts, focusing on women, masculinities, and sexual markets. By paying special attention to the diversity of women's experiences and productive activities in extractive contexts, this article visibilizes their agency, as well as generates a more accurate account of how extractivist regimes operate and reconfigure gender relations on a local level. This expands existing approaches, allowing a situated, feminist critique, which helps to refine the study of gender and gendered power relations in their intersection with processes of natural resource extraction.

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“…De esta manera, abordar el universo de intercambios entre mujeres de la noche 4 y petroleros desde las economías sexoafectivas permite complejizar la discusión al enfatizar en la articulación entre las dimensiones sexuales, económicas y afectivas (Hofmann & Moreno, 2016;Piscitelli, 2013Piscitelli, , 2016 5 y ampliar el abanico de las transacciones sexo-comerciales articulándolas con otras relaciones que no necesariamente -o en apariencia-implican un cambio por dinero. Así, se hace referencia a un extenso universo de prácticas e intercambios sexuales, afectivos y monetarios que incluyen y al mismo tiempo superan los servicios estrictamente sexuales, incorporando las relaciones conyugales o 1…”

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Economías sexoafectivas: significados, prácticas y relaciones en tensión en contextos petroleros de la Patagonia Argentina

Duarte¹

2020

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Introduction: Global Intimate Economies: Discontents and Debates

Cited by 8 publications

References 61 publications

The interplay between intimacy and commodification: Queer agency and vulnerability amid neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics

The interplay between intimacy and commodification: Queer agency and vulnerability amid neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics

Gender and natural resource extraction in Latin America: Feminist engagements with geopolitical positionality

Economías sexoafectivas: significados, prácticas y relaciones en tensión en contextos petroleros de la Patagonia Argentina

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