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Living with Ambiguity: The Strategies of Tongzhi’s Negotiation with Their Sexual Identities in Globalizing ChinaLiya, Niu 11 1900 (has links)
I argue that Xing hun (Contract marriage)” and “Coming out with Chinese characteristics” are creative and feasible approaches for Chinese Tongzhi (queer) from the perspective of vertical historical development. My study is a critical intercultural examination of the western-centric in dominant queer discourse. I discussed the non-confrontational communication practices which are different from the western confrontational practices (visibility & sexuality identity). / Transnational forces in the processes of globalization have determined the identities of the Chinese queer population. This thesis aims to explore how global capitalism, information and communication technology, and international collaboration in dealing with HIV and AIDS have facilitated the spread of western queer discourses and ideologies to China, and how these forces have influenced the construction of Chinese Tongzhi/queer identities. I use the discourse analysis to argue that the western norms of queer “coming out” and “declaring identity” can be an action accompanied by risk in the Chinese social, cultural, and political contexts, given that homosexual desires have challenged the institutions--not just sexuality but also marriage and family-- of heteronormativity. Chinese Tongzhi have to deal with the tension between Chinese traditional norms and western queer culture by negotiating some complex and dynamic strategies for defining their sexual identities. These strategies include “keeping silent about one’s sexual identity, or not coming out” and “having xinghun (contract and fake marriages with opposite-sex individuals.)” as a compromise between their traditional family obligations and homosexual desires in order to be able to live a “tolerable” queer life. I conclude that the strategies of the Chinese Tongzhi illustrate the agency of Chinese queers in creating a feasible space in which to live with their sexual identities and the process of globalized queer culture in a specifically Chinese context. / Thesis / Master of Social Work (MSW) / This thesis aims to explore how global capitalism, information and communication technology, and international collaboration in dealing with HIV and AIDS have facilitated the spread of western queer discourses and ideologies to China, and how these forces have influenced the construction of Chinese Tongzhi/queer identities.Chinese Tongzhi has to deal with the tension between traditional Chinese norms and western queer culture by negotiating some complex and dynamic strategies for defining their sexual identities.
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Etude génétique des populations de langue Austro-Asiatique : de la famille linguistique au groupe de parenté / Genetic study of the Austroasiatic speaking populations : from the linguistic family to the descent groupAlard, Bérénice 22 November 2018 (has links)
La diversité génétique d’une population porte en elle la trace de pratiques culturelles et est un témoignage de certains éléments passés. Ainsi, la langue, qui peut agir comme une barrière culturelle à la reproduction, et le système de parenté, qui va déterminer quand, où et avec qui les individus se reproduisent, vont influencer la diversité génétique. L’objectif de cette thèse est de tenter de retracer les histoires démographiques de populations d’Asie du Sud et du Sud-Est, à plusieurs échelles culturelles, de la famille linguistique Austro-Asiatique aux groupes de filiation en utilisant des données génétiques. Dans un premier temps, nous nous sommes intéressés à la famille linguistique Austro-Asiatique. Les langues appartenant à une même famille linguistique descendent d’une même langue « mère » et nous avons voulu savoir si en plus de cette parenté linguistique, les locuteurs de ces langues partageaient une parenté génétique. Nous avons étudié la diversité génétique autosomale de populations parlant des langues Austro-Asiatiques et nous les avons comparées à des populations voisines appartenant à d’autres familles linguistiques. Nous n’avons pas pu mettre en évidence de parenté génétique particulière entre les populations parlant des langues Austro-Asiatiques. Ces résultats excluent l’hypothèse d’une origine commune des populations parlant des langues Austro-Asiatique et favorisent l’hypothèse d’une diffusion culturelle des langues Austro-Asiatiques. Puis, nous avons étudié la parenté génétique au sein de groupes de descendance dans huit populations d’Asie du Sud-Est. Les individus appartenant au même groupe de filiation disent descendre d’un même ancêtre commun, paternel dans les populations patrilinéaires ou maternel dans les populations matrilinéaires. Nous avons voulu savoir si l’ancêtre commun de ces populations est mythique ou biologique. Nous nous sommes intéressés aux diversités génétiques du chromosome Y et de l’ADN mitochondrial de huit populations d’Asie du Sud-Est : quatre populations matrilinéaires et quatre populations patrilinéaires. Nos données montrent que des individus appartenant à un même clan matrilinéaire sont fortement apparentés génétiquement au niveau de leur lignée maternelle, visible au niveau de leur ADN mitochondrial. A l’inverse, les individus appartenant à un même clan patrilinéaire ne sont pas plus apparentés génétiquement entre eux que deux individus pris au hasard dans la population au niveau de leur lignée paternelle, visible au niveau du chromosome Y. Ces résultats témoignent de réalités différentes entre les populations patrilinéaires et matrilinéaires d’Asie du Sud-Est avec un ancêtre commun réel dans les populations matrilinéaires et un ancêtre commun mythique dans les clans patrilinéaires. Pris ensemble, ces travaux rappellent la manière dont différents processus culturels ont laissé des signatures génétiques sur les diversités génétiques uniparentales et autosomales et illustrent la manière dont le généticien des populations peut utiliser ces diversités génétiques pour retracer l’histoire démographique des populations. / The genetic diversity of a population carries with it traces of cultural practices and is a testimony of certain past events. Thus, language, which can be a cultural barrier to reproduction, and the kinship system, which will determine when, where and with whom individuals reproduce, will influence genetic diversity. The aim of this PhD thesis is to try to retrace the demographic histories of populations of South and Southeast Asia, at several cultural scales, from the Austroasiatic language family to descent groups using the genetic data. Firstly, we studied in the Austroasiatic language family. Languages belonging to the same linguistic family come from the same "mother" language and we wanted to know whether, in addition to this linguistic kinship, the speakers of these languages shared a genetic kinship. We have studied the autosomal genetic diversity of Austroasiatic speaking populations and compared them to neighboring populations belonging to other linguistic families. We could not highlight any particular genetic kinship between populations speaking Austroasiatic languages. These results exclude the hypothesis of a common origin of populations speaking Austroasiatic languages and favor the hypothesis of a cultural diffusion of Austroasiatic languages. Then, we investigated genetic kinship in descent groups in eight Southeast Asian populations. Individuals belonging to the same descent group claim to descend from a common paternal ancestor, in patrilineal populations, or from a common maternal ancestor, in matrilineal populations. We wanted to know if the common ancestor of these populations is mythical or biological. We investigated the genetic diversities of the Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA of eight populations in Southeast Asia: four matrilineal populations and four patrilineal populations. Our data showed that individuals belonging to the same matrilineal clan are closely genetically related to their maternal line, visible in their mitochondrial DNA. Conversely, individuals belonging to the same patrilineal clan are no more genetically related to each other than two individuals randomly selected from the population in their paternal line, visible on the Y chromosome. These results reflect different realities between the patrilineal and matrilineal populations of Southeast Asia with a real common ancestor in matrilineal populations and a mythical common ancestor in the patrilineal clans. Together, these results showed how different cultural processes have left genetic signatures on uniparental and autosomal genetic diversities and illustrated how the population geneticist can use these genetic diversities to trace the populations' demographic history.
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