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15 Queer Geographies

  • Robert Chlala
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Abstract

Queer geographies invites us to explore how individuals and institutions make sense of and give value to different categories and experiences tied to sexuality. Such relations are constituted spatially and entangled in systems of market, state, and social power. This chapter traces how researchers and scholars have taken up just some of the myriad potentials of queer geographies in ways that complement and enhance feminist political geographies – which includes boundary-breaking work that underscores both fields as always in the making and as political projects in and of themselves. These include critical examinations of the geopolitics of sexual citizenship and its entanglements with imperial violence and repression. At the same time, newer explorations of queer of color critique also offer an understanding of worldmaking at local scales that reveal everyday queer political praxis that supports making life. New work in this arena takes as its foundation an understanding of queerness as a political relation, interlaced with knowledge from indigenous, Chicanx/Latinx feminisms, Black radical scholarship and more. Queer geographies can thus expand upon feminist political geography in ways that allow us to not just ‘see’ sexual difference but understand its constitutive role in (re)making contemporary politics and power across scales.

Abstract

Queer geographies invites us to explore how individuals and institutions make sense of and give value to different categories and experiences tied to sexuality. Such relations are constituted spatially and entangled in systems of market, state, and social power. This chapter traces how researchers and scholars have taken up just some of the myriad potentials of queer geographies in ways that complement and enhance feminist political geographies – which includes boundary-breaking work that underscores both fields as always in the making and as political projects in and of themselves. These include critical examinations of the geopolitics of sexual citizenship and its entanglements with imperial violence and repression. At the same time, newer explorations of queer of color critique also offer an understanding of worldmaking at local scales that reveal everyday queer political praxis that supports making life. New work in this arena takes as its foundation an understanding of queerness as a political relation, interlaced with knowledge from indigenous, Chicanx/Latinx feminisms, Black radical scholarship and more. Queer geographies can thus expand upon feminist political geography in ways that allow us to not just ‘see’ sexual difference but understand its constitutive role in (re)making contemporary politics and power across scales.

Heruntergeladen am 11.11.2025 von https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111289274-016/html
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