Spaces are constituted through the enactment, negation and contestation of norms of appropriate sexual conduct

Question 1

“Spaces are constituted through the enactment, negation and contestation of norms of appropriate sexual conduct” (G. Brown, K. Browne and J. Lim, 2007). Discuss with reference to examples from the geographies of sexualities. What are you arguing?

Answer 1

That you need to see spaces as constructing sexuality as a process

Question 2

What do Brown, Browne and Lim say and when?

Answer 2

2007 they say you can only understand sexuality by understanding the spaces in which it is made

Question 3

What are the paragraphs?

Answer 3

1) Historical perspective
2) Normalised spaces
3) Assert that space is constituted by sexuality norms, but that is continued to be constituted by such norms
4) The role of queer theory in destabilising this perspective

Question 4

What is the conclusion

Answer 4

just because a space is constructed in a certain way does not mean that it need to continue to do so. Geography has been complicit in the formation of spaces in such a way, but new trends mean that it can be active in the unwinding of such ideas.

Question 5

What has queer theory historically done?

Answer 5

geography looked to homosexual spaces during the 1980s (giddens)

Question 6

What does Binne 1997 say?

Answer 6

geographical knowledge has historically been, and to a certain extent still remains, a heterosexual site of knowledge production

Question 7

Who agrees with Binne 1997 that geographical knowledge has historically been, and to a certain extent still remains, a heterosexual site of knowledge production

Answer 7

Oswin 2008

Question 8

What comes after the historical perspectives paragraph?

Answer 8

Normalised spaces paragraph

Question 9

As well as saying that you can only understand sexuality by understanding the spaces in which it is made, what else to BRown, Browne and Lim 2007 argue?

Answer 9

Normalised spaces, rather than explicitly sexualised spaces need to be looked at

Question 10

Give an example of someone who extends queer theory beyond the expciityl queer?

Answer 10

Hubbard 2007

Question 11

Who talks about the lesbian experience of everyday spaces?

Answer 11

Valentine1993

Question 12

Valentine1993 argues why?

Answer 12

• Space is organised in a way that is conducive to heterosexuals, and so lesbians feel out of place. Space is key to the reproduction of unequal relations.

Question 13

Valentine1993 uses which examples?

Answer 13

The home, the workplace and the hotel

Question 14

How do you extend Valentine1993 argument?

Answer 14

That these spaces are not just made, but still continued to be made and remade

Question 15

What does Berlant and Warner say and when?

Answer 15

1998 – heterosexuality is a very powerful organising force that works to displace and undermine its other, yet it is still very much active and contested.

Question 16

How do you extend the argument of Berlant and Warner 1998?

Answer 16

Just as heterosexuality has been asserted as dominant, so too can it be contested and pluralised

Question 17

What is there always the presumption of?

Answer 17

Hterosexuality

Question 18

What needs to be understood about geographical knowledge?

Answer 18

that geographical knowledge can help to the challenge of the norms, just as it once worked to form them

Question 19

The idea that that geographical knowledge can help to the challenge of the norms, just as it once worked to form them builds on what theory?

Answer 19

Post structuralism

Question 20

What is the fourth paragraph?

Answer 20

How queer theory can destabilise this geographical knowledge?

Question 21

What does Oswin 2008 say?

Answer 21

there is nothing inherently heterosexual about any space. Even some queer spaces are normative and exclusionary

Question 22

What does Rushbrook say about gay and queer space?

Answer 22

Rushbrook makes the valuable assertion that saying ‘gay space’ or ‘queer space’ denotes a homogeneity that does not actually exist.

Question 23

Who talks about the similarity between queer and feminist geography?

Answer 23

Knopp 2008

Question 24

What similarity does Knopp 2008 make between queer and feminist geography

Answer 24

queer geography like feminist geography is a response to an exclusionary practice that is now queering exclusions in every space and relation, such as the family.