Session organizers: Dr. Alison Bain (York University) and Rae Rosenberg (York University)
In his book Cruising Utopia: The
Then and There of Queer Futurity, Mūnoz (2009) extends an invitation to
render reality differently. For Mūnoz, a collective desire for queerness
motivates, and is motivated by, a political imagination that rejects the
normative value systems and rationalities of the present and aspires to enact
new ways of being in the world. This session is inspired by Mūnoz’s temporal
theorizations of queerness, his active drawing of the past into a field of
possibility in the present, so as to create a different future. We welcome
critical reflection on how the social worlds of LGBTQ2S people in the global
North and global South are rendered ‘present’ in human geographical scholarship
– with what political collective actions, community building initiatives,
(mis)representations, public (in)visibility, and counter-cultural expressions. We
also extend discussion about the possibilities, constraints, and contradictions
of social science methods and methodologies, to variously (re)imagine,
(re)narrate, and (re)present provisional, fluid, and diverse LGBTQ2S subjectivities,
lives, and geographies.
We welcome self-reflexive considerations of research
strategies, power dynamics, and intimacies within geographies of sexualities
scholarship and encourage submissions by queer people of colour, Indigenous
people, and trans and women-identified people.
If you would like to participate in our session please send titles and a
250 word abstract to Alison Bain ([log in to unmask]) and Rae Rosenberg ([log in to unmask]) by Friday, January 27, 2017.
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Rae Rosenberg
Ph.D. Candidate | York University
Critical Human Geography