homonationalist en · ADJ
Etymology
From homo- + nationalist.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of, pertaining to, or supporting homonationalism.
When this occurs, the homophobic Othering of heteronationalism must be performed in a subtler way akin to Pascoe’s (2007) fag discourse, so that the homonormative homosexual bodies remain included within the nation. As an illustration of how these different homonationalist and heteronationalist masculine processes of Othering can co-exist in one space, it is worth revisiting the case of Afrikaner nationalism.
2019 March 9, Koen Slootmaeckers, “Nationalism as competing masculinities: homophobia as a technology of othering for hetero- and homonationalism”, in Theory and Society, volume 48: