Geographies of Sexualities: Theory, Practices and Politics

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Dr Gavin Brown, Dr Jason Lim, Professor Kath Browne
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., Nov 28, 2012 - Social Science - 278 pages

Recent years have seen a dramatic upsurge of interest in the connections between sexualities, space and place. Drawing established and 'founding' figures of the field together with emerging authors, this innovative volume offers a broad, interdisciplinary and international overview of the geographies of sexualities. Incorporating a discussion of queer geographies, Geographies of Sexualities engages with cutting edge agendas and challenges the orthodoxies within geography regarding spatialities and sexualities. It contains original and previously unpublished material that spans the often separated areas of theory, practices and politics. This innovative volume offers a trans-disciplinary engagement with the spatialities of sexualities, intersecting discussions of sexualities with issues such as development, race, gender and other forms of social difference.

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Contents

Introduction or Why Have a Book on Geographies of Sexualities?
1
From Lesbian and Gay to Queer Geographies Pasts Prospects and Possibilities
21
Sexuality the Erotic and Geography Epistemology Methodology and Pedagogy
29
HealthSexualityGeography
39
Queer Critique and the Politics of Affect
53
Developmental Desire andor Transnational Jouissance Reformulating Sexual Subjectivities in Transcultural Contact Zones
69
Fucking Geography Again
81
Playing with Restraints Space Citizenship and BDSM
89
The Queer Unwanted and Their Undesirable Otherness
125
Straights in a Gay Bar Negotiating Boundaries through TimeSpaces
137
Between Transgression and Complicity Or Can the Straight Guy have a Queer Eye?
151
Pussies Declawed Unpacking the Politics of a Queer Womens Bathhouse Raid
159
Religion Identity and Activism Queer Muslim Diasporic Identities
169
HIV+ Bodyspace AIDS and the Queer Politics of Future Negation in AotearoaNew Zealand
181
Autonomy Affinity and Play in the Spaces of Radical Queer Activism
195
Counting on Queer Geography
207

Queer Mixed Race? Interrogating Homonormativity through Thai Interraciality
101
Drag Queens and Drab Dykes Deploying and Deploring Femininities
113
Conclusions and Future Directions or Our Hopes for Geographies of Sexualities and Queer Geographies
215
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Kath Browne is Lecturer in the School of the Environment, University of Brighton, UK. Jason Lim is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Brighton, UK and Gavin Brown is at University of Leicester, UK

Gavin Brown, Kath Browne, Jason Lim, Larry Knopp, Jon Binnie, Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., Hanna Hacker, David Bell, R.D.K. Herman, Jinthana Haritaworn, Mark E. Casey, Tatiana Matejskova, Phil Hubbard, Catherine Jean Nash, Alison L. Bain, Farhang Rouhani, Matthew Sothern, Michael Brown.

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