Sexuality and space

This article argues critically that the consequences of a binary system of gender norms is experienced as a kind of gender tyranny both for those who transgress gender in their daily lives, but also for those whose lives are lived within such constraints. Feminist geographers and urban theorists have argued that space is gendered and that gendering has profound consequences for women. This article extends this analysis and shows how rigid categorizations of gender fail to include the intersexed and transgendered populations, a small and highly marginalized segment of the wider population. This article uses autoethnographic methods to illustrate the ways that those who transgress gender norms experience a tyranny of gender that shapes nearly every aspect of their public and private lives. The nature of these consequences is explored using citations from the transgender and queer literature as well as the lived experience of this tyranny by the author in a continuum of public to private spaces, including: parking lots, public restrooms, shopping malls, the workplace and the home.

Più che rivelare qualcosa di nuovo, le pandemie mettono in luce ciò che era già presente. Il simbolo dell􏰁intimit􏰅 trasformato in un pe􏰆􏰆o di fornitura pubblica, influenzando così il nostro rapporto con lo spazio pubblico convenzionale.
La questione non sarà solo il rapporto del letto con il lavoro, ma con la privacy, la comunità, l'equità, la mobilità, la razza, la tecnologia, l'energia, il lavoro, il clima e la filosofia. Il letto non si trova mai semplicemente in uno spazio. Genera spazio ed è orchestrato da forze enormi. L'idea del letto come disconnessione o fuga - verso la privacy, la vita domestica, il riposo, la convalescenza e i sogni - era un'idea di vita relativamente breve. È sempre stata un'idea fragile, piena di contraddizioni. E ora non c'è più. Una griglia di letti bianchi vuoti in uno spazio buio e cavernoso - in attesa di corpi. Un'architettura dentro l'altra. In pochi giorni verrà allestito un ospedale da campo per ospitare 5.500 pazienti in due sale del centro congressi di Madrid. Gli edifici progettati per eventi temporanei ora ospitano un'architettura medica di emergenza, uno spazio per la malattia.

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More than revealing something new, pandemics highlight what was already there. The symbol of intimacy transformed into a piece of public supply, thus influencing our relationship with the conventional public space.
The issue will not only be the relationship of the bed with work, but with privacy, community, equity, mobility, race, technology, energy, work, climate and philosophy. The bed is never simply in a space. It generates space and is orchestrated by enormous forces. The idea of ​​the bed as disconnection or escape - to privacy, home life, rest, convalescence and dreams - was a relatively short life idea. It has always been a fragile idea, full of contradictions. And now it's gone. A grid of empty white beds in a dark, cavernous space - waiting for bodies. One architecture within another. In a few days, a field hospital will be set up to accommodate 5,500 patients in two rooms of the Madrid congress center. Buildings designed for temporary events now house emergency medical architecture, a space for sickness.

Equalities legislation has provided the basis for lesbian and gay-identified individuals to create new spaces of sexual inclusion in the UK. However, national rights to sexual orientation equality do not always translate into equal rights to sexual expression at the local scale. The paper demonstrates this by focusing on an instance where a display of homosexual intimacy – a same-sex kiss – was legitimately removed from a licensed premise despite the existence of legislation outlawing homophobic discrimination. This seeming contradiction demonstrates the limits of a perspective that regards citizenship as something negotiated solely at the scale of the nation-state, with those charged with maintaining public order at the local scale often appearing indifferent to nationally-secured rights. The paper accordingly warns against essentialist notions of the state, concluding that the interplay of a heterogeneous set of actors operating on different jurisdictional scales ultimately determines the limits of sexual citizenship.

FROM THE BACK COVER: What is the essential nature of meaning? . . . . . This book answers by examining interpretive theories from the past and present. It finds that an historical struggle with meaning has been underway since the Reformation, a struggle that reaches crisis proportions in the 20th century. On the one hand, this crisis is mollified by Heidegger's hermeneutical phenomenology, which argues that we are always already in a meaningful relationship to the objects of the world. On the other hand, this crisis is exacerbated when phenomenology, structuralism, and aesthetic theory directly make meaning into an object of study. . . . . . . . . These historical developments culminate with the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, whose non-hermeneutical phenomenology delimits a cause of meaning said to be closely linked to the core of subjectivity. Intriguingly, Lacan's work reveals meaning to be sexual in nature. By integrating his notion of sexual difference with his work in discourse theory and topology, this book demonstrates how the subject's struggle with meaning can be suspended.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GENERAL DESCRIPTION: Broadly speaking, the majority of books on Jacques Lacan focus on the earlier periods of his career. They also tend to target the psychoanalytic clinical community, or else discuss his work in various political, social, and cultural contexts. But in almost all cases these books refrain from a detailed exegesis of his actual texts. They instead prefer to comment on his theoretical apparatus as a whole before turning to its practical implications. . . . . . This book positions itself against this grain. Firstly, it closely analyzes some half-dozen key Lacanian texts. This analysis is organized under a single thematic – the question of meaning – in order to advance the reader's understanding of the trajectory of Lacan's thought across his entire career, as well as to promote the book's thesis that the field of meaning can be suspended. Accordingly, an initial chapter takes up the hermeneutical tradition from Flacius onward. This is then supplemented by a chapter which surveys phenomenological, structuralist and aesthetic theories of meaning and their differing methods of textual analysis. Together these two chapters provide a unique context for the sustained analysis of Lacan's texts which begins in the third chapter, an analysis that forms the bulk of the book's content. This contextualization potentially widens the book's appeal to any scholar wishing to explore his relationship to those textual objects he interacts with on a daily basis. And because this book assumes the reader has little to no familiarity with Lacan, the reader will find patient explanations of the basics of his theories before slowly being led up to the more difficult theories of his late years. Again the argument is that Lacan has something to offer all scholars. His work is not just reserved for psychoanalysts. . . . . . It is with his late theories that the serious student of Lacan will find the book's most original contribution. For in the fourth chapter a detailed account is provided of how Lacan derived his infamous formulae of sexuation from Aristotelian logic. These formulae are then extensively discussed against the backdrop of interpretive theory and textual analysis, showing how these formulae capture much more than just the difference between the sexes. Strikingly, this difference is also found to run through meaning itself, something the final chapter aims to demonstrate. It does this by amalgamating three key components of late-Lacan: sexuation, discourse theory and his use of topological spaces. This amalgamation is a first in the literature. But this amalgamation is not just useful in demonstrating the book's thesis. It further suggests how seemingly divergent aspects of late-Lacanian theory can be made to work together.

This is a short description of Wiccan sexuality, written for the Springer Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion, edited by David A Leeming (pp 1638-1641). It locates Wicca's ethos and practice as contemporaneous with the  twentieth century secular milieu from  which Wicca emerged, yet encompassing  traditional Western esoteric philosophy, with some eastern influence.

In the past 40 years gay and lesbian populations have established a visible presence in many cities, but recent gentrification has put pressure on LGBT neighborhoods. This paper uses a case study of the Atlanta metropolitan area to examine the effects of resurgent gentrification on LGBT neighborhoods. The study finds that rising housing values have dispersed the LGBT population, and former LGBT neighborhoods have become less tolerant of LGBT people and the businesses that anchor the LGBT community. The paper considers ways that planning practice might seek to preserve LGBT-friendly neighborhoods and the people and institutions that depend on them.

Research on sexuality and space makes assumptions about spatial singularity: Across the landscape of different neighborhoods in the city, there is one, and apparently only one, called the gayborhood. This assumption, rooted in an enclave epistemology and theoretical models that are based on immigrant migration patterns, creates blind spots in our knowledge about urban sexualities. I propose an alternative conceptual framework that emphasizes spatial plurality. Drawing on the location patterns of lesbians, transgender individuals, same-sex families with children, and people of color, I show that cities cultivate "cultural archipelagos" in response to the geo-sexual complexities that arise from within-group heterogeneity. Rather than inducing spatially singular or scholastic outcomes, as some scholarship predicts , subgroup variations produce diverse yet distinct types of queer spaces. The analytic frame of cultural archipelagos suggests more generally that we cannot categorize urban or social worlds using simple binaries such as "the gayborhood" versus all other undifferentiated straight spaces.

This article examines the sexualization of place under conditions of the compressed modernization and reflexive cosmopolitanism. In particular, I adopt Michel de Certeau’s spatial didactic model of strategy and tactic to investigate the dynamics at play in the gay labeling of a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (Coffee Bean) in South Korea and explore the ‘gaying’ that takes place within preconceived heteronormative space. Using interview data, I additionally explore the negotiation tactics and coping mechanisms at work when gays compete with heterosexuals for non-gay place. The results illustrate how gays gay in heteronormative space and how heteronormative space harmoniously embodies gay men. The findings suggest that spatial location and tactic play important roles in stimulating compromise of sexual territory. Gay Bean benefits from being nestled between locations with histories of tolerance, while it also prospers from reflexive cosmopolitan ideals of diversity and acceptance of others. Gay identity and gaying is interpreted as foreign in Korea, which buttresses gay performativity in spaces welcoming of foreigners and so-called “deviance.” However, how gaying functions within place rely​ not only on spatial histories of tolerance outside, but also on the tactics of identity negotiation within. The findings suggest that spatial and tactical conditions induce gay individuals to police other gay- identified individuals when gays gay in so-called heteronormative places.

In this paper I reconsider Gregg Araki‘s The Living End (1992) in terms of genre pas-
tiche and intertextual elements to show how the film itself works to trouble and redraw the boundaries of the road movie in the early 1990s, but also how this in-turn opens up Los Angeles and its seemingly infinite freeways and pronounced automobile-based culture to the genre. Part of my larger aim here is to rethink the road movie‘s relationship to the city, albeit an anomalous city, through the case study of Araki‘s film.

There is a well-developed literature on neighborhoods, as well as one on sexual identities and communities, but little research brings these two subfields together to explore the relationship between sexuality and the city. In this chapter, I suggest that urban sociology can meet the sociology of sexualities through culture. I use the reasons straight people provide for wanting to live in a gay district as an opportunity to reflect on how sexuality informs our imaginations of place. By examining residential logics, scholars can conceptualize “the city” as a culturally saturated site where neighbors negotiate the meanings and material significance of their sexuality alongside their sexual differences from others.

This paper uses framing theory to challenge previous understandings
of queer safe space, their construction, and fundamental logics. Safe
space is usually apprehended as a protected and inclusive place, where
one can express one’s identity freely and comfortably. Focusing on the
Jerusalem Open House, a community center for LGBT individuals in
Jerusalem, I investigate the spatial politics of safe space. Introducing
the contested space of Jerusalem, I analyze five framings of safe
space, outlining diverse and oppositional components producing this
negotiable construct. The argument is twofold: First, I aim to explicate
five different frames for the creation of safe space. The frames are:
fortification of the queer space, preserving participants’ anonymity,
creating an inclusive space, creating a space of separation for distinct
identity groups, and controlling unpredictable influences on the
participants in the space. Second, by unraveling the basic reasoning
for each frame and its related affects I show how all five frames
are anchored in liberal logics and reflect specific ways in which we
comprehend how queer subjectivities produce/are produced through
safe space and its discourse.

Background: Research evidence on unprofessional relationships across the caring professionsc onsiders a range of activities and definitions (Halter, Brown & Stone, 2007). The evidence on sexual boundary violations (SBVs) in psychological therapy is sparse, but suggests that SBVs are under-reported; there is also a small but significant component of complaints. Conversely an increasing literature exploring client experience of SBV suggests that the effects are profound (Ben-Ari & Somer, 2004; Somer & Nachmanil, 2005). The prevalence literature is primarily quantitative, often using survey methodology. Conclusions have limited accuracy; there are issues raised, for example, when considering recruitment and sample characteristics, response rates, and questionsand definitions used. Some studies identified general characteristics associated with SBVs, including middle age, being male, working alone and outside the public sector; more recent literature, however, has been critical of the notion of the 'bad apple'. Halter, Brown and Stone (2007) conclude that provision of information is insufficient; evidence for the effect of recent innovations in training is promising, but evaluation of these is necessarily limited. It is unlikely, however, that UK accredited practitioners are ignorant of the code of ethics to which they have signed up; other reasons are more likely to play a part in sexual boundary violations.

Research Aims and Questions: The aims of the current research were to (1) Identify the indicators that signal potential or actual sexual boundaryviolations by healthcare providers who are relevant to the remit of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy; (2) Explore how practitioners manage these in their therapy work and the effects of such management strategies; (3) Make detailed recommendations to minimise risk of sexual boundaryviolations by such healthcare providers.

Methodology: Thirteen practitioners were interviewed about their experiences of managing the risk of sexual boundary violations. Inclusion criteria were: accreditation as a counsellor or psychotherapist within specified counselling or psychotherapy organisations; a preparedness to confirm that he or she had not committed, or been subject to an investigation concerning, a sexual boundary violation; extensive experience of clinical work since qualifying, some of this being outside the NHS. To maximise the potential variety in participants and accounts, participation was invited through advertising and electronic distribution lists. The sample was completed through purposive sampling; to ensure that the sample varied sufficiently in terms of sex, disclosed hetero or homo-sexual orientation, age, cultural background, experience and time since qualified, working environments, therapy models, registering body and geographical location, four participants were identified through personal and professional contacts. The sample therefore included individuals from both higher and lower risk categories. Semi-structured interviews were used to elicit therapist experiences. The focus was on gaining detailed accounts of boundary breaches and potential SBVs, on reactions,choices and strategies adopted by practitioners, and opinions and judgements. Data were analysed thematically (Miles & Huberman, 1994; Braun & Clarke, 2000), each interview analysed initially by pairs consisting of an academic and a clinician. Principles of Free Association Narrative (Hollway & Jefferson, 2000) were employed when extending the analysis beyond the participan's opinions and explicit themes, using the interviewer's experience to understand the complexities of the constructed account.

Findings: Participants described SBV as one extreme on a continuum of boundary breaches; many accounts focussed on recognition and management of small breaches. Experiences of sexual attraction originating from client and therapist were seen as ubiquitous and unavoidable, and occurred without reference to sex of therapist and client, or sexual orientation; the management of the experience was seen as critical in determining whether a serious breach had taken place. Definitions of breaches and boundary violations varied, especially in views on touch. The key factor identified in definitions of boundary breaches concerned motive, i.e. whether the practitioner was acting in their own interests rather than for the client's benefit. For some, boundaries and their management, including sexual boundaries, were integral to therapeutic work. Elements of the steps involved in the therapeutic management of boundaries were developed into a process model created through analysis of what seemed to work positively for therapists and clients. The model articulates the following process: (1) noting; (2) facing up to it personally; (3) reflecting; (4) processing; (5) formulating; (6) working for therapeutic benefit. This model represents an ideal; therapists viewed the process as an ongoing struggle. Practitioners described a tension between engagement and sense making; we came to view this as a participant/observerstance, with similarities to Celenza's (1995) definition of empathy. Some accounts of managing boundaries were deemed problematic, even though they were not descriptions of sexual boundary violations, by participant or research team; for example, the strategies adopted for managing pressure on therapeutic boundaries sometimes resulted in distress to clients and difficulties with therapeutic work. These were grouped into a typology of four categories: self-protective/defensive; moralising/omnipotent; neediness/over-identification, and over-protective anxiety. A feature of all examples was a difficulty in maintaining a constructive balance between participation and observation. Supervision was seen as the primary source of support for successfully managing boundaries; we focussed on experiences of supervision and views of its functions. Supervisors were expected to focus on client benefit, manage the supervisory relationship, facilitate understanding, and an ethical and therapeutic stance. These mirror the practitioner's roles, so that supervisors might support therapist work at any point. One of the major aims of supervision seemed to be the development of an internal supervisor (Casement, 1985). Additionally, supervisors were expected toprovide quality checks, monitoring the therapist's account and their own experience, speaking of difficulties, so that threats of boundary breaches could be discussed. This extended for some to a responsibility to report serious unprofessional misconduct.

Conclusions and Recommendations: These findings are not inconsistent with the literature and research on sexual boundary violation, victims and transgressors, even though participants had avoided sexual boundary violations and had experience of successfully managing boundary threats. The sample tended to favour more conservative stances towards boundary limits such as touch; this may have been a protective factor. Recommendations for practice have been framed as issues for reflection for practitioners, supervisors, employing organisations, accrediting bodies, and training organisations. These include: increasing clarity over reporting; support during investigation; training in boundary management; supervisor contracting; formulation of practitioner learning needs; for practitioners to develop and own a rationale for therapeutic boundaries and prohibitions. There are finally suggestions for future research.

Encounters across difference—in city spaces marked by diverse migration trajectories, cultural differences, and racialized hierarchies—have captured the attention of urban scholars concerned with both the challenge of ''living with difference'' and the promise of multicultural conviviality that inhere in the super-diversity of many cities. Expanding on approaches that focus on analyzing the conditions of a good or ''meaningful'' encounter that can reduce prejudice or promote intercultural understanding, this paper brings interviews with queer Asian men in Sydney, Australia into dialogue with Sara Ahmed's revaluation of the ''bad encounter.'' It shows how research on encounters can more productively engage with how negative encounters can become meaningful political occasions in their own right. Focusing on the problem of sexual racism as it emerges in accounts shared by participants, the paper highlights dating and sex as important moments through which the aesthetic orderings of race, gender, and sexuality shape the unevenly shared spaces of citizenship and urban life.

For some readers it might be something new, to find a work about “gay spaces” in the frame of the geographical discipline. Others might not even know what issues are researchable in this specialized field or why there is a need for researching. Hopefully this essay can give answers to many of the questions that might arise while being confronted for the first time with that topic.
While in this chapter the research methods are unfolded and the topic is integrated in the discipline of geography, the following chapters are filled with more specific content. Chapter 2 defines and discusses terms such as “gay” and “queer” and concepts like “heter-onormativity” or that of “sexualized spaces”. The last concept is leading over to chapter 3, the main chapter, wherein gay spaces are explored from different perspectives – such as the urban/rural difference or the Nordic view – and also critically questioned. The conclusion in chapter 4 is not done in the usual way, but adopts political-geographical concepts of territo-ry and territoriality. The way in which this essay was done is finally reflected in the last chap-ter (5), which also includes acknowledgements and is then followed by the references.

Abstract This paper explores the complex relationship between transgendered people and cities in the USA, and, in particular, their relationship with queer spaces within those cities. Some have argued that queer spaces occur at the margins of society and constitute a safe haven for LGBToppressed by the hetero-normative nature of urban areas. Data from a survey of 149 transgendered individuals indicate that although queer spaces provide a measure of protection for gender variant people, the gendered nature of these spaces results in continued high levels of harassment and violence for this population. The author argues that the strongly gendered dimensions of these spaces suggests that a discursive revisioning of gender is needed to create more transgender friendly urban spaces.

Sexualizing space and place reorders the framework through which the sexual self is created, refracted, and re-interpreted. Though some scholars have limited the boundaries of this framework to non-spatial relations, spatially assessing sexual behaviors still matters. Using multiple semi-controlled interviews with a male and a female entrepreneur of sex-related businesses, I explore the performative geographies of sexual behavior in space and place. At the macro-level, this research analyzes the influences of capitalist and cultural forces in destabilizing geographies of gender and sexuality on place. At the same time, from a micro-sociological level, it investigates how newly created space(s) produces subjects who consolidate their sexual selves spatially. This running dynamic in South Korea can catalyze returns to gender-based norms and hetero-normativity even within imagined queer spaces.

"Abstract. This paper critiques the proposition that way-finding strategies can be differentiated by sex. We argue that way-finding is better understood as a function of gender differences where gender is understood as a lived social relation, a product of the interaction between an embodied habitus and a particular social field. The use of survey versus landmark way-finding strategies is linked to an individual's gendered experiences of urban life. The study examines way-finding strategies from a sample of 127 gay men and lesbians from the Tallahassee, Florida metropolitan region to explore urban habitation patterns. We find that different way-finding strategies (most commonly a survey or
landmark approach) are influenced by the habitus and gendered experiences of fear and anxiety in urban areas. Both bivariate and multivariate analyses suggest that individuals who perceive that their own gender presentation violates gender norms (gender dissonance) experience higher levels of social sanctions (harassment, hostility, and discrimination). In multivariate analysis, the study finds that gender-dissonant men tend to navigate using the landmark way-finding approach usually associated with women, whereas gender-dissonant women navigate using the survey way-finding approach usually associated with men."

Recent accounts of sexual commerce have drawn attention to the proliferation of online and sexual consumption. Yet the mediated exchange of sexual images and content folds into the spaces of the city in a variety of complex ways. Drawing on a variety of social science perspectives, this paper provides an introductory overview of a collection of papers exploring the changing contours of sexual consumption in the city and the distribution of sexual commerce across – and between  - private, domestic and public, commercial spaces. Exploring the ways in which diverse LGBT and heterosexual identities are differently marketised, commodified and consumed, this introduction argues that over the last decade, contradictory moments of sexual emancipation and repression have changed where (and how) sexual consumption is visible in the city, shaping rights to the city in complex ways which need to be more thoroughly acknowledged ‘mainstream’ urban studies.

Definitely an "early" work and planning to expand it. Comments of all sorts welcomed!

"My study attempts to map out moments of the complexity of Montreal's so-called gay male strip clubs. Accordingly, I take a stroll through Montreal's "gay village" and investigate one of its clubs, i.e. its exterior, its interior design, its architecture the
overlapping flows within the club, the rules and laws that constrain some of those flows, and the dancers themselves,
altogether as a certain technè serving homoerotic desire. Moreover, in the light of this study, I propose a critique of the
concept of gay space and suggest its reworking."

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/a-house-of-prayer-for-all-people

Perhaps an unlikely subject for an ethnographic case study, the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto in Canada is a large predominantly LGBT church with a robust, and at times fraught, history of advocacy. While the church is often riddled with fault lines and contradictions, its queer and faith-based emphasis on shared vulnerability leads it to engage in radical solidarity with asylum-seekers, pointing to the work of affect in radical, coalition politics.

A House of Prayer for All People maps the affective dimensions of the politics of citizenship at this church. For nearly three years, David K. Seitz regularly attended services at MCCT. He paid special attention to how community and citizenship are formed in a primarily queer Christian organization, focusing on four contemporary struggles: debates on race and gender in religious leadership, activism around police–minority relations, outreach to LGBT Christians transnationally, and advocacy for asylum seekers. Engaging in debates in cultural geography, queer of color critique, psychoanalysis, and affect theory, A House of Prayer for All People stages innovative, reparative encounters with citizenship and religion.

Building on queer theory’s rich history of “subjectless” critique, Seitz calls for an “improper” queer citizenship—one that refuses liberal identity politics or national territory as the ethical horizon for sympathy, solidarity, rights, redistribution, or intimacy. Improper queer citizenship, he suggests, depends not only on “good politics” but also on people’s capacity for empathy, integration, and repair.

This article explores LGBT politics of space in Jerusalem, a contested and fractured city. By interpreting the challenges and contradictions inherent in the Jerusalem Open House (JOH), a social movement and community space in Jerusalem, the article will show how the discourse and the practice of the JOH lead to a politics of holding. This LGBT spatial politics consists of striving to include oppositional politics, emphasizing the consolidation of public and private LGBT politics of home. The JOH persistently maintains a politics of holding, continually balancing inclusion, creating a home-like space and framing the organizational space as a shelter for all LGBT individuals in Jerusalem, while adopting a politics of visibility. This visibility enhanced processes of politicization which at many points stand in contrast to the JOH’s goals of being accessible, inclusive and safe. The politics of holding illustrates the religious, political, national and ideological fractures’ at work in producing a unique kind of LGBT spatial politics in the conservative Jerusalem space.

The Supreme Court’s recent judgment reading down Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code is a landmark on many counts. But while we celebrate the judgment, it is important to remember that Section 377 meant different things to different groups of queer people. While for some it was the symbolic harm of their desire being designated as “unnatural,” for others it had a material significance in their everyday negotiations with harassment and violence in public spaces.

This seminar styled course introduces students to the intersections of race/ethnicities, gender, sexuality, disability, nationality, space and social justice. The course will be structured around understanding key themes and debates emerging from the cultural turn in in the field of human geography. Broadly speaking, Human Geography is the study of people, spaces, and places. Geographers are interested in the materiality of space: location, physical environment, movement of people & goods, and the way human relations, social difference shape and are shaped through the materiality of space. Further, human geographers study how people make sense of space. Thus, the subjective meaning of space (a location on a map), the unique cultural character of a region & how people create a sense of belonging is understood as place. ➢ In this class, we will first understand three foundational concepts in Human Geography: Space-Place-and Society. ➢ The course will then introduce students to substantive concepts such as the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, disability, and space. We will learn how social, cultural, urban and feminist geographers approach the study of such intersections within the context of cities, space and place. ➢ The final section of the class will focus on Geographies of cultural difference (race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality) and how such difference is connected with movements for rights to the city, resisting gentrification, police brutality, and sustainability. We will study key geographic approaches in order to understand how social difference is mapped through space, and how social inequality & oppression is interconnected with processes such as globalization, border control and immigration, as well as study emerging new social movements such as #blacklivesmatter, #rightothecity

El presente artículo tiene como fin criticar la marginalidad del sexo como tema propio de la geografía. Propongo cuatro cuestionamientos al respecto: realzar su condición espacial, discutir la particularidad de los lugares y su producción de significados, poner en tela de juicio los ordenamientos espaciales urbanos y la díada público/privado, y debatir sobre las políticas de legitimación y autoridad en la producción de conocimiento geográfico. El telón de fondo es mi etnografía sobre lugares de cruising entre hombres en la ciudad de Bogotá, punto de partida que me permite abordar el silenciamiento del carácter espacial del sexo y la validez de su análisis socio-cultural. Planteo, igualmente, cómo la investigación de temas sobre sexo implica repensar la posición del geógrafo en la academia y en el trabajo de campo.

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies
Volume 10, issue 3, 2011

Edited by the ACME Editorial Collective


Special Thematic Section: Gender, Power, and Transcultural Relations
Guest Edited by Nancy Cook

Introduction: Gender, Power and Transcultural Relations, p. 340
Nancy Cook

Grounding the global: A call for more situated practices of pedagogical and political engagement, p. 351
Gulzar R. Charania,

Feel-good tourism:  An ethical option for socially-conscious Westerners? p. 372
Gada Mahrouse

Imagining others: sex, race, and power in transnational sex tourism, p. 392
Megan Rivers-Moore

Not that alternative: Short-term volunteer tourism at an organic farming project
in Costa Rica, p.412
Kate J. Zavitz & David Butz


Research:

Geography’s Pro-Peace Agenda: An Unfinished Project, p. 442
Joshua Inwood & James Tyner

“Perish or Globalize”: Network Integration and the Reproduction and Replacement of Weaving Traditions in the Thai Silk Industry, p. 458
Mark Graham

Time and the University, p. 483
Eli Meyerhoff, Elizabeth Johnson, & Bruce Braun

Witnessing Dance in the Streets: Go! Taste the City, p. 508
Katrinka Somdahl-Sands

‘A New Politics of the City’: Locating the Limits of Hospitality and Practicing the City-as-Refuge, p. 534
Julie E.E. Young

Gentrification and Politicization of Nightlife in New York City, p. 564
Laem Hae      (Note: this is a large file: 11.2 MB)


Intervention:

Creativity and project management: a comic, p. 585
Phil Jones & James Evans


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International Standard Serial Number: 1492-9732

ACME is published with the support of the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada)

In this article we stress the need for specifically located understandings of the concept of homonationalism, by introducing an analysis of spatial and political power relations dissecting disparate constructions of LGBT arenas. The article explores three spaces: Tel-Aviv-an urban space of LGBT belonging; Jerusalem-the Israeli capital where being an LGBT individual is problematic both in public and in private spaces; and Kiryat-Shmona-a conservative and peripheral underprivileged town in the north of Israel. By showing how local understandings of queer space shape power relations and translate into subjective spaces within wide-ranging power dynamics, we claim that homonationalism cannot be seen as one unitary, consolidated category or logic. Instead, we argue, homonationalism should be considered a multidirectional and multiscale political stance, manifesting cultural practices and political relationship with the state and society in distinct settings. By expanding considerations of the nuanced interplay of state power and LGBT spaces we aim to elucidate some paradoxes of homonationalism.

บทความชิ้นนี้เป็นการเปิดมุมมองเพื่อมองปรากฏการณ์ทางการเมืองที่เกิดขึ้นในพื้นที่ ที่มีความเกี่ยวข้องกับตัวตนและอัตลักษณ์ โดยเฉพาะเรื่องราวเกี่ยวกับอัตลักษณ์ทางเพศ เมื่อมนุษย์เข้าไปมีปฎิสัมพันธต่อกันและต่อพื้นที่ทั้งพื้นที่ในเชิงกายภาพและพื้นที่ในเชิงนามธรรม พื้นที่จึงกลายเป็นปัจจัยหนึ่งที่กำหนดสร้างตัวตนของผู้ใช้พื้นที่ ในขณะเดียวกันผู้ใช้พื้นที่ได้ใช้ตัวตนของความแตกต่างเป็นเสมือนวัตถุดิบในการใช้สอยหรือผลิตพื้นที่ การคลี่คลายความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างพื้นที่ที่มีความเกี่ยวเนื่องโดยตรงต่ออัตลักษณ์ทางเพศ ถือได้ว่าเป็นการนำเข้าไปสู่ประเด็นทางการเมืองอัตลักษณ์ ที่มีทั้งนัยยะทางอำนาจการครอบงำและนัยยะทางการต่อต้านต่อรอง บทความชิ้นนี้แบ่งออกเป็นสามส่วน ส่วนแรกเป็นการคลี่คลายทางคำนิยามความหมายต่างๆ เพื่อให้เห็น “ความหมาย” ที่ผนวกสร้างเป็นคำๆ นั้น ส่วนที่สองเป็นการคลี่คลายผ่านทางร่างกายในฐานะจุดร่วมระหว่างพื้นที่และอัตลักษณ์ แสดงให้เห็นว่า “ร่างกาย” เป็นร่องรอยของการสืบค้นความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างพื้นที่และอัตลักษณ์ทางเพศได้อย่างไร และส่วนสุดท้ายเป็นแนวคิดเพื่อนำไปสู่ “การใช้ร่างกายและการใช้พื้นที่” ที่เป็นได้ทั้งในฐานะของการปฎิบัติตามสิ่งที่ถูกกรอบกำหนดให้และในฐานะของการปฎิบัติการหรือการต่อรองที่เกิดขึ้นในพื้นที่

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies
Volume 12, issue 2, 2013

Edited by the ACME Editorial Collective

Special Thematic Issue:
Sexual Landscapes, Lives and Livelihoods in Canada
Guest Edited by Catherine J. Nash and John Paul Catungal


Introduction: Sexual Landscapes, Lives and Livelihoods in Canada, pp 181-192
Catherine J. Nash and John Paul Catungal

Queering Neighbourhoods: Politics and Practice in Toronto, pp 193-219
Catherine J. Nash

Lesbians as Village ‘Queers’: The Transformation of Montréal’s Lesbian Nightlife in the 1990s, pp 220-249
Julie A. Podmore

Ethno-Specific Safe Houses in the Liberal Contact Zone: Race Politics, Place-Making and the Genealogies of the AIDS Sector in Global-Multicultural Toronto, pp 250-278
John Paul Catungal

Ordinary (Small) Cities and LGBQ Lives, pp 279-304
Tiffany Muller Myrdahl

Beyond Binary Places: The Social and Spatial Dynamics of Coming Out in Canada, pp 305-330
Nathaniel M. Lewis

Commentary: Canadian Sexualities in Context, pp 331-342
Catherine J. Nash and John Paul Catungal, with Miriam Smith, Eric Olund, and Deborah Cowen


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Keynote Papers of the 6th International Conference of Critical Geography, Frankfurt, Germany, August 16-20, 2011


The 6th International Conference of Critical Geography in Frankfurt, Germany: Introduction to the Keynote Lectures, pp 343-348
Bernd Belina

State, Capital, Crisis, pp 349-365
Heide Gerstenberger

What Does It Mean to Speak of the Actuality of Critical Theory?  pp 366-379
Alex Demirović


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