2021 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Comparing governance of lesbian communities in Singapore and Japan
| Project/Area Number |
17K02091
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| Research Institution | Aichi Toho University |
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Principal Investigator |
虎岩 朋加 愛知東邦大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (00566721)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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| Keywords | gender / sexuality / governmentality / subjectivity / identity |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Due to the continued difficulties with travel produced by the Covid19 pandemic, in 2021 the PI and the collaborator continued meeting online to engage in the analysis of the data and study the effects of governmentality on the way non-heterosexual women negotiate their everyday life in Japan and in Singapore. Though we have not yet published any article we have been working on two related articles as part of our final project.The first article explores how the pragmatic ideology at the heart of governance in Singapore helps shape the ways in which non-heterosexual women in Singapore develop a relation to themselves and to others, and therefore “manage” their non-heterosexuality -- and compare it with accounts on the same themes by non-heterosexual women in Japan. The second article explores how both in Japan and Singapore non-heterosexual women show significant reluctance to defy the existing order of things in their respective countries, yet in Singapore this is once again an effect of the pragmatic ideology at the core of governance while in Japan it is associated with fear and social pressure.
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Research Products
(1 results)
