Hi Kim,
Welcome to this list! I think you'll find there's quite a few of us here who are also on LaDiDah and other more 'activist' lists that you are also on.
Your idea for the queer portal comes at an interesting time for us, as we have been talking about setting up a website/wiki as a means of networking people doing sexuality and space research internationally. This is likely to include an opportunity for people to add details of their research interests to a directory of researchers...
Your research sounds interesting. Have you read any of Ben Anderson's work on affect and listening to music?
Anderson, B. (2002). A principle of hope: recorded music, listening practices and the immanence of Utopia. Geografiska Annaler 84 B (3-4), 211 – 227.
Good luck
Gavin
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From: Sexualities, Space and Queer Geographies [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Foale [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 07 March 2008 13:01
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Subject: Re: queer portal
On Tuesday 04 March 2008 12:41:57 J.S. Hutta wrote:
> Don't know exactly where this comes from and who Kim, the author, is, but
> sounds fun...
> simon
Haha that's me. I'm new to this list and quite surprised to find my emails
forwarded to here :D
I'm just started a PhD at Salford Uni (UK) in "Soundscapes, Gender and the
Built Environment". So I'm looking at how gender identity is affected and
reflected by the soundscape; how existing soundscape research is lacking in
an appreciation of gender; and what makes up our personal, gendered
soundscapes. Although possibly only 1 of these by the time I get a bit
further on!
If anyone can think of anything fof the top of their head that links into this
it would be great. As far as I (and my tutor) are aware it's an untapped
field, so I'm reading all kinds of things - musical sociology, conversation
analysis, soundscape studies, acoustics and psychoacoustics, queer theory and
gender performativity, etc!
If anyone's interested in my research I can send them my first, rough, paper,
but it's more an outline than anything else.
I also have a history of being involved in queer activism, but due to ill
health and onset of PhD, the website project is my way of staying in touch
with stuff but being able to distance myself too. It'd be great to get some
people off this academic list involved: I really feel like there's a huge gap
in terms of good quality, free or open source queer information on the
Internet. The sort of thing your "average joe" can read about on the
Internet, or local councils etc can turn to for advice, and in general a
front for a queer lobby. If anyone has time to get invoveld as a developer or
content editor that would be totally great!
Also, does anyone have any advice on changing their name in an academic
setting? I tend to go by "Kim" nowadays, don't really want to publish
as "David" (system name), But don't really feel ready to do the deed poll
thing yet. Does anyone know if universities respect this kind of naming?
Personally I'm happy to have multiple identities but institutions kinda make
you choose - If anyone can give me advice on or off list that would be great.
And there's the email thing too. If only we could do symlinks in RL!
Thanks for reading! thought it was time I stopped lurking.
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Kim (David Foale)
Room G11, Newton Building, Salford University
Phone 0774 3917404
My GPG public key: http://alliscalm.net/dfoale.asc
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