Matthew Leyshon McGuire | University of Cambridge (original) (raw)
My doctoral thesis entitled 'Outside Jeong: Young Men, Sexuality and Conflicting Selfhood in Seoul' explored the interactions of competing and conflicting models of male-male sexuality in urban Korea. I argued that as older ways of organising sexuality have become problematic, young men face a set of new dilemmas and conundrums around the management of their own desires, ambitions and subjectivities. After completing the thesis, I am leaving academia in a formal sense to work for the UK civil service. I have plans to publish as an independent scholar, albeit at a more leisurely pace. I am also representing independent researchers as part of the European Network for Queer Anthropology.
Supervisors: Prof. Henrietta L Moore
Address: Trinity Hall
Cambridge
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In this article I challenge a focus in digital anthropology on the integration of media into eve... more In this article I challenge a focus in digital anthropology on the integration of media into everyday life. Korean queer men’s experience on geosocial applications suggests that integration is not a neutral methodology but rather is a locally negotiated concern, a management of the connection between spaces. I use the example of the sauna to illustrate that the urban structure of Seoul is frequently orientated around semi-public rooms or bang that are imagined as insulated from the rest of society. The rise of geosocial cruising applications, with their tendency to connect and unite arenas that should be kept apart, have resulted in anxiety over the exposure of men to an uncontrollable totality of social relations.
AVAILABLE SHORTLY ONLINE (2016/17).
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In this paper, I look how aegyo -in lack of a better term, cuteness-is a genre of behaviour that ... more In this paper, I look how aegyo -in lack of a better term, cuteness-is a genre of behaviour that encourages warm social relationships. These relationships are specifically heteronormative, between men and women. In everyday life, many women find it necessary to develop and perform cuteness, especially in the context of making demands.
This summer me and a housemate, Subin, held a rooftop party in Seoul, and invited a mixed group o... more This summer me and a housemate, Subin, held a rooftop party in Seoul, and invited a mixed group of Koreans and 'foreigners' over. As the party proceeded, I ended up in a conversation with a number of Korean friends about my housemate's planned coming out to her mother. She is in a long term relationship with an English woman, and is planning to marry and move here in the next year. She intends to marry first, by law, but then hold a party. She said she couldn't imagine holding this party without her mother being there.
In this article I challenge a focus in digital anthropology on the integration of media into eve... more In this article I challenge a focus in digital anthropology on the integration of media into everyday life. Korean queer men’s experience on geosocial applications suggests that integration is not a neutral methodology but rather is a locally negotiated concern, a management of the connection between spaces. I use the example of the sauna to illustrate that the urban structure of Seoul is frequently orientated around semi-public rooms or bang that are imagined as insulated from the rest of society. The rise of geosocial cruising applications, with their tendency to connect and unite arenas that should be kept apart, have resulted in anxiety over the exposure of men to an uncontrollable totality of social relations.
AVAILABLE SHORTLY ONLINE (2016/17).
In this paper, I look how aegyo -in lack of a better term, cuteness-is a genre of behaviour that ... more In this paper, I look how aegyo -in lack of a better term, cuteness-is a genre of behaviour that encourages warm social relationships. These relationships are specifically heteronormative, between men and women. In everyday life, many women find it necessary to develop and perform cuteness, especially in the context of making demands.
This summer me and a housemate, Subin, held a rooftop party in Seoul, and invited a mixed group o... more This summer me and a housemate, Subin, held a rooftop party in Seoul, and invited a mixed group of Koreans and 'foreigners' over. As the party proceeded, I ended up in a conversation with a number of Korean friends about my housemate's planned coming out to her mother. She is in a long term relationship with an English woman, and is planning to marry and move here in the next year. She intends to marry first, by law, but then hold a party. She said she couldn't imagine holding this party without her mother being there.