Sexing diversity: Linguistic landscapes of homonationalism

Milani, Tommaso M.; Levon, Erez

doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2016.07.002

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“…More importantly, the way in which gay identities are included is consistent with the previous mentioned technologies of Othering of Zionism. Indeed, Milani and Levon (2016) have argued that, in Israeli homonationalism, the Israeli gay man is produced through images of young muscled men, which draws on Zionism's history of representing Israel through the picture of the sabra, the Byoung, strong, masculine Jew, who unlike its older, more 'feminine,' and weaker counterpart in the diaspora would build the state of Israel^(p. 79). They further argue that the gay Jew is not integral to the construction of the Zionist-Israeli identity, but rather the hypermasculine character of the traditional figure of the sabra […] is skilfully mobilised for the Beconomic exploitation of eroticization^.…”

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Nationalism as competing masculinities: homophobia as a technology of othering for hetero- and homonationalism

Slootmaeckers

2019

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How are masculinity and nationalism intertwined? This question has received scant theoretical attention, and existing theories tend to focus on their shared ideals and are embedded in a heteronormative, homophobic, and patriarchal framework. Such views imply a static relationship between the two phenomena and are incompatible with the recent phenomenon of homonationalism and the incorporation of some homosexual bodies within the nation. Addressing this theoretical gap, this article develops a more holistic framework of the relationship between nationalism and masculinity. Drawing on relational sociology, it conceptualises nationalism as competing masculinities. It argues that the link between masculinities and nationalism is not found in their overlapping substantive ideals, but rather that the two phenomena are co-constructed through their overlapping Othering processes. The proposed theoretical framework does not only provide a more dynamic understanding of the link between masculinity and nationalism, but it also helps to overcome the apparent duality between homonationalism and heteronationalism. It is shown that both phenomena are in fact two sides of the same coin, with the main difference between them being the location of homophobia as a technology of Othering within different types of Self/Other relations. Overall, the article provides an analytical tool that allows for the contextualisation and understanding of seemingly contradictory features of nationalism and its relationship to masculinity.

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Nationalism as competing masculinities: homophobia as a technology of othering for hetero- and homonationalism

Slootmaeckers

2019

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“…Khader indeed acknowledges that 'there are a lot of exceptions' and 'a lot of freedoms' in Tel Aviv, although he hedges this statement with the help of the Arabic adverb yimkin 'maybe'. In this way, he reproduces a dominant public discourse about Tel Aviv as a liberal urban BUBBLE (Shohamy & Waksman 2010;Milani & Levon 2016). However, the Arabic conjunction bas 'but' plays an important ideological function introducing the identity constraints that such an allegedly progressive space may bring with it.…”

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“…Israel, for example, is a comparatively inclusive society with respect to the legal rights and the treatment of its lesbian and gay citizens. Nondiscrimination of lesbians and gays is enshrined in law; there is a large and active gay 'scene' in Israel's large urban centers; and the country has gained international notoriety as a tourist destination for 'pink' travelers (see Milani & Levon 2016). Puar's theory of homonationalism does not dispute facts like these.…”

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Israel as homotopia: Language, space, and vicious belonging

Milani

Levon

2019

Lang. Soc.

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Israel has recently succeeded in presenting itself as an attractive haven for LGBT constituencies. In this article, we investigate how this affective traction operates in practice, along with the ambiguous entanglement of normativity and antinormativity as expressed in the agency of some gay Palestinian Israelis vis-à-vis the Israeli homonationalist project. For this purpose, we analyze the documentaryOriented(2015), produced by the British director Jake Witzenfeld together with the Palestinian collective Qambuta Productions. More specifically, the aim of the article is twofold. From a theoretical perspective, we seek to demonstrate how Foucault's notion of heterotopia provides a useful framework for understanding the spatial component of Palestinian Israeli experience, and the push and pull of conflicted identity projects more generally. Empirically, we illustrate how Israel is a homotopia, an inherently ambivalent place that is simultaneously utopian and dystopian, and that generates what we call vicious belonging. (Code-switching, heterotopia, homonationalism, normativity, pinkwashing, sexuality, space)*

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“…Paige's turn demonstrates quite clearly that the fear of othering is not merely about wanting to ‘fit in’, as many teenagers do; it is also a response to her lived experience of homophobic abuse and the influence of her family's fears. Whereas Pride events around the world are often seen to epitomise homonormativity – as shown, for example, in Milani and Levon's () analysis of the rugged version of masculinity promoted by the Tel Aviv Pride organisation – they do not represent an opportunity to feel ‘normal’ for these young women. Rather than see Pride as a chance to feel part of a ‘gay community’, they are fearful of the fact their sexuality would be foregrounded if they were to attend.…”

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‘I'm not proud, I'm just gay’: Lesbian and gay youths' discursive negotiation of otherness

Jones

2018

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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This article outlines the shared identity construction of five gay and lesbian members of an LGBT youth group, situated in a conservative, workingclass, Northern English town. It is shown that the young people's identity work emerges in response to the homophobia and 'othering' they have experienced from those in their local community. Through ethnography and discourse analysis, and using theoretical frameworks from interactional sociolinguistics, the strategies that the young people employ to negotiate this othering are explored; they reject certain stereotypes of queer culture (such as Gay Pride or being 'camp') and aim to minimise the relevance of their sexuality to their social identity. It is argued this reflects both the influence of neoliberal, 'homonormative' ideology, which casts sexuality in the private rather than public domain, and the stigma their sexuality holds in their local community. These findings point to the need to understand identity construction intersectionally.

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Sexing diversity: Linguistic landscapes of homonationalism

Cited by 42 publications

References 28 publications

Nationalism as competing masculinities: homophobia as a technology of othering for hetero- and homonationalism

Nationalism as competing masculinities: homophobia as a technology of othering for hetero- and homonationalism

Israel as homotopia: Language, space, and vicious belonging

‘I'm not proud, I'm just gay’: Lesbian and gay youths' discursive negotiation of otherness

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