Call for Papers
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 2004
14th - 19th March 2004, Philadelphia
PLACES OF (P)LEISURE, BUT WHERE'S THE PAIN? SEXUALITIES, SPACE AND POWER
Recently geographies of sexualities have drawn upon queer theories that
explore the fluidity and multiplicity of sexualities. Beyond discourse, and
beyond the mutability of the body, there are still questions of power.
Theories of embodiment, performance and performativity have been deployed
to destablise the 'naturalness' of heterosexual spaces through an
examination of sexualised practices. Relations of power are (re)enacted
through, and (re)create, social norms, regulations, institutions, places,
bodies and practices. In order to (re)explore the material potential for
subversion, transgression, resistance, contingency, disruptions,
disjunctures and 'failed' performativities, the fluidity offered by queer
theories and practices needs to be (re)integrated with the stuff of our
daily lives.
This session seeks to develop a dialogue between cultural and social
geographies through a discussion of the lived, practised and embodied
sexualising of leisure spaces, and the leisure spaces of sexualities.
Constitutive of such spaces are the interplay of regulatory practices with
affective geographies. Bodies become placed into various affective
relations between and beyond attraction and repulsion, and dominance and
submissiveness. We need to ask how pleasure, pain and power are implicated
within one another. Such sexualised and affective geographies intersect
with other dimensions of power such as race, ethnicity, class, gender and
social and cultural capital.
Contributions are sought that explore empirically, theoretically or
emotionally/affectively the pleasure and pain of:
- Spaces of sexualities and sex
- Queer contestations and transgressions
- Practices and performativities of sexualities
- Sexual identities, embodiments and places
- Affective, intimate and sensual geographies and politics
- Bars, nightclubs, and other sexualised 'night' spaces
- Pride, festivals, concerts and other regular and irregular places of
(p)leisure
- Institutions such as school, church, government, media.
- Sites of sexualities and places of tourist (p)leisure
- Researching sex and sexualities
- Everyday life and the mundane 'stuff' of sexualitities
For further information and expressions of interest, please contact us at the
addresses below. Abstracts of upto 250 words to be sent by September 12th
2003; Presenter Identification Numbers to be sent by September 26th 2003.
Dr. Kath Browne
Division of Geography,
The School of the Environment,
University of Brighton,
Cockcroft Building,
Lewes Road,
Brighton, BN2 4GJ,
UK.
Tel: +44 (0) 1273 642377
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Dr. Jason Lim
Department of Geography
University College London
26 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AP
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 5527
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Jason Lim
University College London
26 Bedford Way
London WC1H OAP
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Tel: 020 7679 5527
Fax: 020 7679 7565
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