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| Becoming a Dance Host: Negotiating Intimacy and precarity | |
CHEN JUAN
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| 2024-04 | |
| Publisher | British Sociological Association |
| Conference Name | Crisis, Continuity and Change |
| Conference Place | Online |
| Conference Date | 2024 April 3-5 |
| Abstract | Migrant Chinese male workers who earn their living as ‘dance hosts’ partner middle-aged women in venues known as dance halls. The hosts sell experiences of intimacy, and can engage in ongoing romantic relationships with their female clients. Using interview data and participant observation, this article examines the formation of dance hosts’ subjectivities related to this nontraditional form of work for men. Specifically, I discuss (a) the situational contingencies affecting how and why these men become dance hosts, (b) the demanding nature of the labor involved and (c) the instability and economic insecurity commonly experienced by the dance hosts. This paper seeks to analyse critically the political economy of Chinese neoliberal society and its multiple forms of exclusion, inequality and precarious living experience for migrant dance hosts. |
| ISBN | 978-0-904569-59-9 |
| Language | 英語English |
| Document Type | Conference proceedings |
| Collection | DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY |
| Affiliation | University of Macau |
| First Author Affilication | University of Macau |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | CHEN JUAN. Becoming a Dance Host: Negotiating Intimacy and precarity[C]:British Sociological Association, 2024. |
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