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

Bao, Hongwei

Abstract

© The Author(s) 2020. 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.

Citation

Bao, H. (2020). The queer Global South: Transnational video activism between China and Africa. Global Media and China, 5(3), 294-318. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059436420949985

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 25, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Aug 31, 2020
• Publication Date: 2020-09
• Deposit Date: Sep 1, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 7, 2020
• Journal: Global Media and China
• Print ISSN: 2059-4364
• Electronic ISSN: 2059-4372
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 294-318
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2059436420949985
• Keywords: Africa, China, film, Global South, minor transnationalism, queer, Queer University
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4872355
• Publisher URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2059436420949985#articleCitationDownloadContainer