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The queer Global South: Transnational video activism between China and Africa.

Authors :
Bao, Hongwei
Source :
Global Media & China; Sep2020, Vol. 5 Issue 3, p294-318, 25p
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

In this article, I examine grassroots cinematic connections between China and Africa by using Queer University, short for the Queer University Video Capacity Building Training Program, a 3-year (2017–2019) participatory video production program between Chinese and African queer filmmakers and activists, as a case study. Through interviews with Queer University organizers and participants, I discuss the transnational politics and decolonial potentials underpinning these grassroots initiatives. Drawing on Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih's critical term "minor transnationalism," I study transnational queer grassroots collaborations in the Global South, and, in doing so, unravel the hopes, promises, and precariousness of emerging people-to-people exchanges taking place in the Global South. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20594364
Volume :
5
Issue :
3
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Global Media & China
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
146205792
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1177/2059436420949985