Spaces are constituted through the enactment, negation and contestation of norms of appropriate sexual conduct Flashcards
“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?
That you need to see spaces as constructing sexuality as a process
What do Brown, Browne and Lim say and when?
2007 they say you can only understand sexuality by understanding the spaces in which it is made
What are the paragraphs?
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
What is the conclusion
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.
What has queer theory historically done?
geography looked to homosexual spaces during the 1980s (giddens)
What does Binne 1997 say?
geographical knowledge has historically been, and to a certain extent still remains, a heterosexual site of knowledge production
Who agrees with Binne 1997 that geographical knowledge has historically been, and to a certain extent still remains, a heterosexual site of knowledge production
Oswin 2008
What comes after the historical perspectives paragraph?
Normalised spaces paragraph
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?
Normalised spaces, rather than explicitly sexualised spaces need to be looked at
Give an example of someone who extends queer theory beyond the expciityl queer?
Hubbard 2007
Who talks about the lesbian experience of everyday spaces?
Valentine1993
Valentine1993 argues why?
• 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.
Valentine1993 uses which examples?
The home, the workplace and the hotel
How do you extend Valentine1993 argument?
That these spaces are not just made, but still continued to be made and remade
What does Berlant and Warner say and when?
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.
How do you extend the argument of Berlant and Warner 1998?
Just as heterosexuality has been asserted as dominant, so too can it be contested and pluralised
What is there always the presumption of?
Hterosexuality
What needs to be understood about geographical knowledge?
that geographical knowledge can help to the challenge of the norms, just as it once worked to form them
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?
Post structuralism
What is the fourth paragraph?
How queer theory can destabilise this geographical knowledge?
What does Oswin 2008 say?
there is nothing inherently heterosexual about any space. Even some queer spaces are normative and exclusionary
What does Rushbrook say about gay and queer space?
Rushbrook makes the valuable assertion that saying ‘gay space’ or ‘queer space’ denotes a homogeneity that does not actually exist.
Who talks about the similarity between queer and feminist geography?
Knopp 2008
What similarity does Knopp 2008 make between queer and feminist geography
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.
