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"Under Bright Lights is a sophisticated, energetic, and highly engaging meditation on the practices of world-making undertaken by what Bobby Benedicto describes as contemporary privileged gay men in Manila." —Martin Joseph Ponce, author of Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading

"Benedicto’s deep ethnographic engagement, careful conceptual argument, and lucid prose make this book a critically important contribution and a truly enjoyable read."—Environmental and Planning D: Society and Space

"A landmark offering and a marvelous achievement."—American Anthropologist



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Contents

Prologue: City of Contradictions
Introduction: Making a Scene

1. Automobility and the Gay Cityscape
2. Elsewhere, between Palawan and the Global City
3. The Specter of Kabaklaan
4. Transnational Transit and the Circuits of Privilege
5. White Noise and the Shock of Racial Shame

Coda: Nowhere to Go

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index


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      Publisher: MP - University Of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/25/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780816691081, 978-0816691081
      ISBN10: 0816691088
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      LGBTQIA+ Studies / topics Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Under Bright Lights is a sophisticated, energetic, and highly engaging meditation on the practices of world-making undertaken by what Bobby Benedicto describes as contemporary privileged gay men in Manila." —Martin Joseph Ponce, author of Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading

      "Benedicto’s deep ethnographic engagement, careful conceptual argument, and lucid prose make this book a critically important contribution and a truly enjoyable read."—Environmental and Planning D: Society and Space

      "A landmark offering and a marvelous achievement."—American Anthropologist



      Table of Contents
      Contents

      Prologue: City of Contradictions
      Introduction: Making a Scene

      1. Automobility and the Gay Cityscape
      2. Elsewhere, between Palawan and the Global City
      3. The Specter of Kabaklaan
      4. Transnational Transit and the Circuits of Privilege
      5. White Noise and the Shock of Racial Shame

      Coda: Nowhere to Go

      Acknowledgments
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index


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