American Associations of Geographers Annual Conference 2023 - 2nd Call for Panelists
Title: Pluralities of Transnational Identities and Sexualities
Sponsors: Queer and Trans Geographies SG, Cultural Geographies SG, Feminist Geographies SG, Latinx Geographies SG
Discussant: Debanuj DasGupta (University of California, Santa Barbara)
In a world defined through globalization, cultural structures and social relations are perceived and enacted through an unstable international lens. Transnational lives may occur across nation-states, or locally as people enact social and material change. Not only are singular and traditional categories of identity challenged, but experiences of self are put into flux, as the abstraction of space and time is made more palpable. As Dorren Massey (2005) claims, "The regulation of the world into a single trajectory, via the temporal convening of space, was, and still often is, a way of refusing to address the essential multiplicity of the spatial. It is the imposition of a single universal." Geographers are tasked with considering the implications of ever-shifting spatial-temporal contexts, and developing frameworks that identify and embrace pluralistic approaches to research and understandings of the world.
As such, we take up feminist transnational approaches. M. Jacqui Alexander (2005) advocates for a "pedagogies of crossing" which puts into question imperialist/capitalist structures and boundaries that often flatten difference in favor of singular, teleological renderings of transnational life. By examining hegemonic shifts that demand we build connections outside of ourselves, Alexander calls for theorizing from positions that challenge the centering of Christianity's hegemony and its influence on modernity and heteronormativity, and the resulting categorical logics that structure hierarchy in the Western world and academy.
Given the breadth of transnational research in Geography and the increasing body of sexuality/feminist/queer focused work, this call for papers will bring together these two bodies of scholarship to examine the relationship between transnationality, queerness, gender, racialization, and sexualized experiences (and other axes of difference).
We seek panelists that are eager to enage with the following, but not limited to, questions:
-What does a transnational identity mean for the borders that define the construction of a human experience, whether it be along the lines of race, gender, sexuality, class, or any other subjectivity?
-What role does sexuality play in transnational experiences of self?
-How do transnational identities influence experiences of sexuality?
-How do identities move transnationally?
-How can transnationality expand or constrict notions of identity and sexuality?
-What happens in local places for transnational lives?
-How can we think about multiplicity in transnational identities and sexualities?
Please send your name, background information, and brief description of talking points/abstract to Norman Ornelas Jr ([log in to unmask]) and Edgar Sandoval ([log in to unmask]) by November 7th, 2022. The session is expected to take place in-person.
References:
Alexander, M. Jacqui. 2005. Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred. Perverse Modernities. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Massey, Doreen. 2008. For Space. London: SAGE Publications Ltd.
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