15 Queer Geographies
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Robert Chlala
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.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements
- Contents VII
- 1 Introduction 1
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Part I: Foundations
- 2 The Feminist Geography Of Feminist Political Geography 18
- 3 Feminist Geopolitics 33
- 4 Intimate Geopolitics 51
- 5 Nationalism 65
- 6 De/coloniality 77
- 7 Decolonizing Feminist Geopolitics 89
- 8 Trauma 103
- 9 Peace 115
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Part II: Critical Interventions
- 10 Black Futurity 129
- 11 Racial Capitalism 141
- 12 Populism 153
- 13 Electoral Democracy 165
- 14 Crip Geographies 177
- 15 Queer Geographies 189
- 16 Trans Geographies 201
- 17 Cuerpo-Territorio 213
- 18 Geographies Of Technology 227
- 19 More-Than-Human Geographies 239
- 20 Austerity 251
- 21 Labor 263
- 22 Health 275
- 23 Environmental Justice 287
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Part III: Spaces
- 24 Territory 303
- 25 The Nation-State 315
- 26 The Border 329
- 27 Spaces Of Refuge And Asylum 341
- 28 The Body 353
- 29 Home 367
- 30 The Workplace 379
- 31 The City 391
- 32 The Rural 403
- 33 The Ocean 415
- 34 The Ship 427
- 35 Public Transport 439
- 36 Infrastructure 451
- 37 The Prison 461
- 38 Food 475
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Part IV: Methodologies
- 39 Postcolonial Positionality 487
- 40 Digital Methods And Community-Engaged Research 499
- 41 Fieldwork 511
- 42 Ethnography 525
- 43 Creative Political Geography 537
- 44 Mobile Methods 549
- 45 Life Histories 563
- 46 Black Feminist Literary Methods 575
- 47 Historical Approaches 587
- List of Contributors 599
- Index
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements
- Contents VII
- 1 Introduction 1
-
Part I: Foundations
- 2 The Feminist Geography Of Feminist Political Geography 18
- 3 Feminist Geopolitics 33
- 4 Intimate Geopolitics 51
- 5 Nationalism 65
- 6 De/coloniality 77
- 7 Decolonizing Feminist Geopolitics 89
- 8 Trauma 103
- 9 Peace 115
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Part II: Critical Interventions
- 10 Black Futurity 129
- 11 Racial Capitalism 141
- 12 Populism 153
- 13 Electoral Democracy 165
- 14 Crip Geographies 177
- 15 Queer Geographies 189
- 16 Trans Geographies 201
- 17 Cuerpo-Territorio 213
- 18 Geographies Of Technology 227
- 19 More-Than-Human Geographies 239
- 20 Austerity 251
- 21 Labor 263
- 22 Health 275
- 23 Environmental Justice 287
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Part III: Spaces
- 24 Territory 303
- 25 The Nation-State 315
- 26 The Border 329
- 27 Spaces Of Refuge And Asylum 341
- 28 The Body 353
- 29 Home 367
- 30 The Workplace 379
- 31 The City 391
- 32 The Rural 403
- 33 The Ocean 415
- 34 The Ship 427
- 35 Public Transport 439
- 36 Infrastructure 451
- 37 The Prison 461
- 38 Food 475
-
Part IV: Methodologies
- 39 Postcolonial Positionality 487
- 40 Digital Methods And Community-Engaged Research 499
- 41 Fieldwork 511
- 42 Ethnography 525
- 43 Creative Political Geography 537
- 44 Mobile Methods 549
- 45 Life Histories 563
- 46 Black Feminist Literary Methods 575
- 47 Historical Approaches 587
- List of Contributors 599
- Index
