Queer Geographies: Key Debates and Contending Perspectives(Key Debates and Contending Perspectives series)

This timely book explores queer geographies at a critical juncture of societal and disciplinary self-reflection and transformation. It raises questions of justice and progress in the face of complex and ongoing social exclusions and ecological crises that necessitate change both within and beyond queer geographies. Leading experts incorporate the concepts of reorientation, relationality, replacement, and reconceptualization to provoke collaborative discussion across the globe, revisiting queer geographies’ accomplishments and reworking established concepts. Interdisciplinary in scope, the book provides visual interventions to advance the reconfiguration of queer geographies and invites fluidity, openness, and dialogue across and between disciplines. Ultimately, this book showcases new lines of geographical inquiry and debate to envision alternative disciplinary futures that amplify queer and trans voices while displacing authority and privilege. Queer Geographies is an essential resource for scholars and students of sexual and gender minority life and queer theory, as well as women’s and gender studies, cultural and environmental studies, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.

Table of Contents:
Contents 1 Introduction: The provocations of queer geographical collections 1 Alison L. Bain, Julie A. Podmore, and Chan Arun-Pina PART I REORIENTATIONS 2 Infrastructures of desire: The countercultural commons of Toronto’s queer punk and rave scenes 25 Wiley Sharp 3 Queer geographies beyond the closet 44 Ale Boussalem 4 Queer geographies in French translation: A conversation 61 Karine Duplan, Julie A. Podmore, and Alison L. Bain 5 Liveable lives: A transnational roundtable on liveability from/in India and Ireland 79 Niharika Banerjea, Kath Browne, Nita Mishra, Rohit K. Dasgupta, and Carol Ballantine PART II RELATIONALITIES 6 Unfollowing queer domicidal blueprints 96 Chan Arun-Pina 7 Queering racial capitalism: Abolition geographies beyond quarantine 116 Jin Haritaworn 8 The power of generative dissonance: Creating spaces of and for difference in queer scenes 136 Avery Franken 9 LGBTQ+ friendship and spatial commitments: Queer socialities in the making of a new rural 152 Joe Jukes PART III REPLACEMENTS 10 Digital intimacies and the queer geographies of encounter 169 Regan Koch and Sam Miles 11 Sexual racism on spatial media: Navigating racial differentiation among gay men searching for intimacy 187 Thomas Wimark and Daniel Hedlund 12 (Dis)placing Pride in Copenhagen, or the socio-spatial lives of queer/trans migrant critique 203 Derek Ruez 13 Queerburban place-making/unmaking/remaking 220 Alison L. Bain and Julie A. Podmore PART IV RECONCEPTUALIZATIONS 14 Filmic geographies, urban place-making, and inter-referencing in queer screen cultures 236 Helen Hok-Sze Leung, Julie A. Podmore, and Alison L. Bain 15 Messing up (in) the field: Finding queer-trans ecologies in geographical fieldwork 256 Cleo Wölfle Hazard and Sage Brice 16 For an/other geography: Queering geography’s disciplinary reproduction 277 Eden Kinkaid 17 Conclusion: Queer geographies and the promise of a different disciplinary future 294 Chan Arun-Pina, Julie A. Podmore, and Alison L. Bain References 306 Index 346

About the Author :
Edited by Alison L. Bain, Professor of Geography, York University, Julie A. Podmore, Professor of Geosciences, John Abbott College, and Affiliate Assistant Professor, Concordia University and Chan Arun-Pina, Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar, York University, Canada

Review :
‘Quite simply, this volume queers queer-geography. As it well should. Through the imbricated themes of reorientation, relationality, re-placement, and reconceptualization this compelling book critiques and challenges, but it also proposes new and alternative futures. It is an outstanding collection.’ ‘Queer geographies: Key Debates and Contending Perspectives is as much about queer geographies as it is about the geographies that shape our understanding of the complexities of queerness. This empirically and intellectually rich anthology jointly edited by Alison L. Bain, Julie A. Podmore, and Chan Arun-Pina transforms scholarship on queer geographies through four provocative pillars: reorientations that unsettle tropes such as the closet metaphor; relationalities that probe queer kinship against systematic forces including racial capitalism; socio-spatial replacements that question intimacies in digitally networked spaces and the peripheries of ‘queerurbia’; and reconceptualisations that reconfigure disciplinary boundaries and deconstruct binaries between queer human and non-human geographies. The collection offers thoughtful treatises about various geographies, temporalities, and positionalities beyond Anglo-American hegemonies – from migrants’ perspectives of Copenhagen Pride to transnational narratives of LGBTQ+ liveabilities across India and Ireland, Toronto’s queer punk and rave scenes, to digital racism among gay Swedish men. Alongside Arun-Pina's “trans-imaging” interventions for each chapter contribution, this concerted effort proffers, indeed, contending perspectives that chart “queerer disciplinary futures”. This book belongs on the shelves of anyone who wants to understand more of queer worlds and selves.’ ‘This powerful and provocative book brings forward new lines of queer geographical inquiry and debate. Beautifully illustrated, the original artwork visually represents and introduces each chapter. The result is a stunning collection of chapters which reorient, relate, replace, and reconceptualize queer geographies. The chapters amplify queer and trans voices visually, multi-textually and artistically. There is no other queer geography collection like it!’