Queer geography

Andrew Gorman-Murray, Scott McKinnon

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference PaperChapter

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

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Queer geography'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this