Dear all,

we are delighted to have Jack Gieseking with us next Wednesday as part of 
the International Lecture Series in Cultural Geography at the University of 
Bonn. The lecture will be accessible via Zoom and has the title 'Scale 
Jumping from the Myth of Neighborhood Liberation: When Cis-Metronormativity 
Meets Homonationalism'. You are very welcome to join us in person or online 
at 06:15pm Central European Time.

Zoom Details:
https://uni-bonn.zoom.us/j/92268110531?pwd=NUszNE4wcnp1Q1lZbzNZdVc5VnZMUT09
Meeting-ID: 922 6811 0531
Passcode: 612685

The abstract is below and more details attached.
With best wishes,
Anna



ABSTRACT
Lgbtq activists, the mainstream media, and my lesbian-queer research 
participants in New York City alike often present a limited, territorial 
geographical imagination of "lgbtq spaces." While my lesbian-queer 
participants were quick to describe their central lgbtq spaces as 
gayborhoods, they then described how these neighborhoods failed to meet 
their needs while blaming themselves for these areas' demise. Unmentioned 
was the fact that lesbians and queers fail to attain or retain these spaces 
over generations-often due to lesser political and economic power. In 
earlier work, I argued that the "myth of neighborhood liberation" leads to 
generational cycles of lesbians and queers as gentrifiers and gentrified, 
wherein they are taken in by and reproduce mainstream homonormative 
narratives of (white and well-off) their lives made "better" and 
"legitimate" through property ownership. But what
happens when we shift scales to place the myth of queer urban salvation at 
the scale of the gayborhood to contrast the rural, supposedly anti-lgbtq 
landscape with that of the cosmopolitan and ultra "civilized" city? In this 
talk, I work across scales to examine the relationship between the myth of 
urban neighborhood liberation and the myth of the ever-unwelcoming, 
"backward" rural US South. Drawing on a 15-year media analysis, 
multi-generational interviews with lesbians and queers, and organizational 
records and periodicals from various LGBTQ archives, I situate the work on 
lesbian-queer place-making in conversation with the scholarship around 
homonationalism, I present the idea of cis-metronormativity. 
Cis-metronormativity expands on Halberstam's (2005) notion of 
metronormativity and Puar's (2007) concept of homonationalism to articulate 
the ways mainstream media, politicians, and
corporations portray white, middle-class lesbians, bisexuals, queers, and 
trans people as cosmopolitan citizens in these spaces. Cis-metronormativity 
requires a regional and multiscalar study across the US to articulare the 
political and economic practices that assert urban cosmopolitanism and 
civilization, which therefore reify the racist, settler, and capitalist 
city.


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Dr. Anna Schliehe
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
AG Kulturgeographie | Geographisches Institut Universität Bonn | 
Meckenheimer Allee 176 53115 Bonn |
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MSCA Fellow
Research Group Crime and Carcerality | Carl von Ossietzky Universität 
Oldenburg |  Fakultät I, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften | Ammerländer 
Heerstr. 114 – 118 |26129 Oldenburg
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Visiting Scholar | Prisons Research Centre | Institute of Criminology 
University of Cambridge | Sidgwick Avenue CB3 9DA Cambridge |
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Erreichbar: Montags - Freitags von 07:00 Uhr - 15:00 Uhr CET

I am currently working from 7:00am-3:00pm (CET) and might not be able to 
respond to emails straight away after this time. I will try and reply as 
soon as I can the following working day. Many thanks for your patience!
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