Queer Sites in Global Contexts

Technologies, Spaces, and Otherness
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-68332-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 365 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Critical Diversities

Queer Sites in Global Contexts showcases a variety of cross-cultural perspectives that foreground the physical and online experiences of LGBTQ+ people living in the Caribbean, South and North America, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia.

The individual chapters—a collection of research-based texts by scholars around the world—provide twelve compelling case studies: queer sites that include buildings, digital networks, natural landscapes, urban spaces, and non-normative bodies. By prioritizing divergent histories and practices of queer life in geographies that are often othered by dominant queer studies in the West—female sex workers, people of color, indigenous populations, Latinx communities, trans identities, migrants—the book constructs thoroughly situated, nuanced discussions on queerness through a variety of research methods.

The book presents tangible examples of empirical research and practice-based work in the fields of queer and gender studies; geography, architectural, and urban theory; and media and digital culture. Responding to the critical absence surrounding experiences of non-White queer folk in Western academia, Queer Sites in Global Contexts acts as a timely resource for scholars, activists, and thinkers interested in queer placemaking practices—both spatial and digital—of diverse cultures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramos, Regner

Mowlabocus, Sharif

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1

REGNER RAMOS AND SHARIF MOWLABOCUS

1 San Juan queer: mobile apps, urban spaces, and LGBTQ identities 14

REGNER RAMOS

2 A Kindr Grindr: moderating race(ism) in techno-spaces of desire 33

SHARIF MOWLABOCUS

3 Learning to become an extremophile: trans symbiosis and survival in Berlin 48

GED RIBAS-GOODY

4 Fluid territories: intersectional subjectivities through hereditary and digital spaces 66

MABIA CAMARGO AND EDUARDO MARTINS

5 Queer infrastructures: LGBTQ+ networks and urban governance in global London 82

BEN CAMPKIN

6 Digital dogma: relating the manifestations of religion online to the practices and experiences of Arab MSMs 102

KHALIDEN ALSALEH

Contents

7 The carceral feminism of SESTA-FOSTA: reproducing spaces of exclusion from IRL to URL 117

JODY LIU

8 Queering the Map: on designing digital queer space 133

LUCAS LAROCHELLE

9 Transformismo: a spatial, cultural, and racial intervention in Chicago’s queer and Latinx communities 148

LILIANA MACIAS

10 Communicating ‘race’ in a digitized gay China 162

OSCAR TIANYANG ZHOU

11 The Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond: instrumentalizing spatial imaginaries in the ‘Trans Debate’ in Britain 179

LO MARSHALL

12 Hear, Here: preserving and sharing the history of queer stories in La Crosse, Wisconsin 198

ARIEL BEAUJOT AND VÍCTOR M. MACÍAS-GONZÁLEZ

Über Autor(innen)

Regner Ramos is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Puerto Rico. His research on the relationship between queerness and space is informed by experimental research methods, shifting between model-making, drawing, and performative writing. He is the Editor-in-Chief of informa journal and the architecture Editor at Glass magazine, and Co-Director of Wet Hard Agency. His current research project, “Cürtopia: Queer Maps for Puerto Rico”, is funded by FIPI.

Sharif Mowlabocus is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. He is the author of Gaydar Culture (2010) and his forthcoming book, Interrogating Homonormativity, explores the British gay male culture in the ‘post-equalities’ era.