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Peng, Yuzhu (Altman) and Sun, Yu (2022) A dialectical-relational approach to anti-trans sentiments on Hupu. Discourse, Context & Media, 50 . 100654. doi:10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100654 ISSN 2211-6958.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100654
Abstract
As the first edition of the Olympics including transgender sportswomen, Tokyo 2020 brought trans-rights debates to the forefront of global sports spectatorship during the summer of 2021. In this article, we adopt a dialectical-relational approach to address how anti-trans sentiments unfold in male Chinese sports fans’ social-mediated communication. Based on textual analysis of posts retrieved from Hupu, the research reveals that anti-trans sentiments are largely informed by an essentialist notion of sex, which considers it to be a purely biological construct that is paramount in policymaking, being perpetuated in the process of China’s modernisation. Anti-trans discourses manifest in the sampled postings tend to converge with China’s official nationalist rhetoric, projecting critical voices against liberal-progressive values and Western-style democracy. The research findings shed new light on the dialectical relations between nationalist politics and anti-trans sentiments and, by extension, queerphobic views in China’s sports fandom, pointing towards the heteronormative monopoly of public discourses in sport and beyond.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Transphobia -- China, Transgender people -- China, Transgender people in mass media , Sports spectators -- China, Critical discourse analysis , Nationalism and sports -- China, Social media in sports -- China | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Discourse, Context & Media | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2211-6958 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | December 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 50 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | 100654 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100654 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 November 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 November 2022 | ||||||||
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