Transcultural Deterritorialization of Gay Dance Party and Songkran Festival in Thailand
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In this article I explained the commercialized creation of G Circuit Songkran Party, which is known as the biggest gay dance party in Asia. This study used data from the internet and online media as visual ethnography. Information on the G Circuit Songkran party in 2023 and the history of the party since 2007 are analyzed. The issue of cross-cultural mobility between regions in the era of capitalist globalization and new media has resulted in the dismantling of cultural boundaries and the creation of new cultural identities will be discussed by the concept of deterritorialization. This is to shed light on the conjunction and synchronism of the locality and the globality, which is often described as a dynamic symbiosis of multiple cultures. As finding, I argue that the G Circuit Songkran party needs to deliberate the transformation of economic power that results from the deterritorialized process which causes the exploitation of businessmen and the privileges of masculine gay tourists.
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