The Rise and Fall of an Urban Sexual Community: Malate (Dis)placed
Dana Collins
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Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 7 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; JFSJ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 467.
This book examines how gay place-making challenged the juggernaut of neoliberal urbanization in the Malate district of Manila. In this ethnography, Collins explores the creation of place, characterized by neighborhood renewal, gay community and entrepreneurialism, and informal gay sexual labor. Malate teaches us that the power of sexual community to sustain a transgressive, inclusive, gay neighborhood is circumscribed and fleeting, and that urban livability, justice, and freedom must be pursued through organized grassroots political projects if the magic of Malate is to be revived for all its residents.
This book examines how gay place-making challenged the juggernaut of neoliberal urbanization in the Malate district of Manila. In this ethnography, Collins explores the creation of place, characterized by neighborhood renewal, gay community and entrepreneurialism, and informal gay sexual labor. Malate teaches us that the power of sexual community to sustain a transgressive, inclusive, gay neighborhood is circumscribed and fleeting, and that urban livability, justice, and freedom must be pursued through organized grassroots political projects if the magic of Malate is to be revived for all its residents.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
237
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137579607
SKU
V9781137579607
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Ref
99-15
About Dana Collins
Dana Collins is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Fullerton, USA. She is co-editor of New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights, and she has published widely on her research in Manila. Her future research lies in the areas of crisis studies and food justice in the Philippines.
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