Draft:Queer Geography
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Comment: More sources and further context are required for the article. The first sentence claims to be a subset of human geography, however this subset is not ever mentioned at the topic article for human geography. While that's not a requirement by any means, more uses of this term in reliable sources would be a positive. Neither Gill Valentine nor Catherine Nash are described as queer geographers at their articles. Utopes (talk / cont) 05:25, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
Queer geography is a subset of human geography which emerged to challenge heterosexuality within the discipline.[1][2][3] Queer geography seeks to understand the role of "place and space in the production of sexual identities, practices, communities, subjectivities, and embodiments."[4] Queer geography uses queer theory as its basis.[4]
Early work focused on mapping the spaces of gay men and lesbians.[5] Evolving since then, it has expanded to explore the ways that "heterosexuality is often spatially constituted as normative, thus rendering nonheterosexual people out of place or as needing to queer space."[5] Scholars argue that sexual and gender equalities "cannot be understood outside the interconnections between places."[5]
Methods
[edit]Queer geography methods are attuned to the visibility of mapping queer people and communities and the possible harms that this may cause. [6] Research design and methods must be aware of the possible harms that making public these geographies can cause to the queer community. [6]
Notable queer geographers
[edit]- Gill Valentine
- Catherine J. Nash
- Andrew Gorman-Murray
- Scott McKinnon
- John Paul Catungal
- Julie Podmore
References
[edit]- ^ Browne, Kath; Brown, Gavin; Nash, Catherine J. (October 2021). "Geography and sexuality II: Homonormativity and heteroactivism". Progress in Human Geography. 45 (5): 1320–1328. doi:10.1177/03091325211016087. ISSN 0309-1325.
- ^ Oswin, Natalie (2008-02-01). "Critical geographies and the uses of sexuality: deconstructing queer space". Progress in Human Geography. 32 (1): 89–103. doi:10.1177/0309132507085213. ISSN 0309-1325.
- ^ Ahn, Young-Jin; Juraev, Zuhriddin (2025). "Queer Theory and Geography". In Warf, Barney (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 1–10. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-25900-5_222-1. ISBN 978-3-031-25900-5. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ a b "queer geographies". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ^ a b c "University of Toronto Libraries". library.utoronto.ca. doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.10212-0. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
- ^ a b "University of Toronto Libraries". library.utoronto.ca. doi:10.4324/9781003038849-13. Retrieved 2024-03-10.