Queer geography

Andrew Gorman-Murray, Scott McKinnon

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    Abstract

    Queer geographies overlap with the geographies of sexualities, but the two fields are not entirely interchangeable. Queer geographies offer an approach that combines queer theory with spatial analytics to describe and analyze the social coconstitution of sexuality and space. This article discusses the contributions of queer geographies to scholarship, focusing on three geographical lenses: scale, mobility, and place-making. The article first charts inter-relations of sexuality and space at the scales of the body, home, city, and nation-state, and then traces queer processes of emplacement and displacement ranging across the local, national, global, urban, and rural.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationInternational Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Volume 19
    EditorsJames D. Wright
    Place of PublicationU.K.
    PublisherElsevier
    Pages759-764
    Number of pages6
    Edition2nd edition
    ISBN (Print)9780080970868
    Publication statusPublished - 2015

    Keywords

    • sexual minority community
    • sexual minorities
    • geography

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