@article{oai:icu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004551,
 author = {飯田, 麻結},
 issue = {11},
 journal = {ジェンダー&セクシュアリティ},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {This paper examines how the notions of affect, the national body and
homonationalism have been deployed and articulated in the aftermath of
the London Riots that took place in August, 2011. With reference to Tom
Whyman’s article “Beware of cupcake fascism” published on The Guardian in
2014, which illustrates oppositional responses to the riots, I will investigate
the way the cultural tropes of cake and cupcake could be associated with
emerging debates within feminist and queer politics. As the incidents
have brought out several structural deficiencies in terms of race, class and
poverty, it is significant to pay careful attention to the ongoing construction
of the bodies of others in contrast with the government’s comprehensive
recovery scheme entangled with the declaration of the national ideal as
well as the re / production of privileged citizens. It must be stressed that
the government insisted on mending “broken society” with a specific focus
on conservative values of family and ideal Britishness regardless of rioters’
varying backgrounds and causes of social oppression. Whyman’s article does
not only offer a critical insight into differential orientations towards what is
deemed a national crisis, it also reveals the rhetorical affirmation of middleclass
values against possibilities of social change by claiming emotional
others as the objects of “clean-up,” who disturb the existent boundaries of
the national body. Reflecting upon Sara Ahmed’s influential argument of
the stickiness between bodies and emotions, I will first attempt to unfold
the complicated process of incorporation into the body of the nation,
which is followed by an in-depth analysis of legitimate and alternative
historicity in relation to “good-life-fantasies” and Lauren Berlant’s concept
of “cruel optimism” that the nation promises as a normative condition of
everyday lives, which is, however, suspended for the maintenance of the 
future. The arbitrary appropriation of the imagined past for a better future
then secures the national ideal, while it inevitably bears a historical burden
such as the privilege of whiteness and the liberal-bourgeois subjecthood.
In addition, the metaphors attached to the objects of consumption will
further be discussed with regard to homonationalism defined by Jasbir K.
Puar, in that the rioters’ bodies marked as others are meticulously expelled
from neoliberal political economy behind the logic of social progress. The
riots bring to the fore the intersection of affective politics, queer alternative
historiography and the rise of homonationalism against universalising and
idealising narratives deployed by the nation in the face of a crisis, whose
underlying imperative may sound surprisingly familiar.},
 pages = {91--121},
 title = {カップケーキの寓話： ロンドン暴動にみる情動・国家の身体・ホモナショナリズムの接続},
 year = {2016}
}