Call for papers – Deadline to submitt papers: March 27th, 2022
Studies on space predominantly focus on applying dual and opposed categories to structure knowledge and understanding of human relations and practices. A production of space that fails to capture a myriad of minority and subaltern realities that challenge preconceived and prescriptive categories.
Over the last decade, a growing literature of feminist and queer geographies has suggested to rethink the binary spatial categories that lock the understanding of territories in fixist and reductive models. In the vein of this approach, this session proposes to highlight queer and feminist critique that charts new paths for understanding space through hybridization and assemblage rather than in traditional categories. To this end, this session fosters a reflection on the epistemological and conceptual reformulation of the multiscale thematic couples that shape knowledge on space, including but not limited to: North/South, local/global, urban/rural, center/periphery, private/public.
Rethinking thematic binarism in research does not only imply theoretical standpoints but addresses the whole research process, including methodologies, data collection, writing and dissemination. To this end, this session welcomes papers based on scientific research, reflexive presentations, or various forms of empirical work. As epistemic frameworks vary and are addressed differently (but often complementarily) depending on research fields and contexts, speakers from different countries and academic backgrounds are encouraged to apply. This session welcomes submissions in English with an attention to papers from the field of geography and related disciplines (sociology, anthropology, urbanism, and architecture).
Session chairs:
Jean Makhlouta – Architect, Ph.D. candidate in geography affiliated to University Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne and research unit Géographie-cités.
Clément Nicolle – Ph.D. candidate in geography affiliated to University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and research unit Géographie-cités.
Submission process:
Paper proposals can be submitted until March 27th, 2022. Each proposal should include a title, an abstract (250 words), keywords (5 maximum) and a short bibliography (5 references maximum). Please submit your proposal by email to jeanhmakhlouta@gmail.com.
Key references:
BLIDON Marianne, “Moving to Paris! Gays and Lesbians: Paths, Experiences and Projects”, in The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities, Routledge, 2016, pp. 201-212.
BROWNE Kath & Catherine Nash (dir.), Queer Methods and Methodologies: Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research, Farnham/Burlington, Ashgate, 2010.
CATTAN Nadine & CLERVAL Anne, « Un droit à la ville ? Réseaux virtuels et centralités éphémères des lesbiennes à Paris », Justice spatiale – Spatial justice, n. 3, 2011, last seen on 10 October 2021. http://www.jssj.org/article/un-droit-a-laville-reseaux-virtuels-et-centralites-ephemeres-des- lesbiennes-a-paris/
CATTAN Nadine, « Trans-territoire. Repenser le lieu par les pratiques spatiales de populations en position de minorité », L’Information géographique, vol. 76, n. 2, 2012, pp. 57-71.
DEMPSEY Jessica & Geraldine Pratt, “Wiggle Room”, in Keywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50, Hoboken, Wiley-Blackwell, 2019, pp. 274-279.
GHAZIANI Amin, There Goes The Gayborhood?, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2014.
KNOPP Larry, “On the Relationship Between Queer and Feminist Geographies”, The Professional Geographer, vol. 59, 2007, pp. 47-55.
MUÑOZ Lorena, “Brown, Queer and Gendered: Queering the Latino/a ‘Street-Scapes’ in Los Angeles”, in Kath Browne et Catherine Nash (dir.), Queer Methods and Methodologies: Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research, Farnham/Burlington, Ashgate, 2010, pp. 55-66.
NASH Catherine, “Trans Experiences in Lesbian and Queer Space”, Canadian Geographer, vol. 55, n. 2, 2011, pp. 192-207.
OSWIN Natalie, “Critical Geographies and the Uses of Sexuality: Deconstructing Queer Space”,
Progress in Human Geography, vol. 32, n. 1, 2008, pp. 89-103.
RODO DE ZARATE Maria, “Managing fear in public space: young feminists’ intersectional experiences through Participatory Action Research”, Les cahiers du CEDREF, vol. 2, n. 21, 2014, last seen on 15 October 2021. http://journals.openedition.org/cedref/967
STONE Amy L., “The Geography of Research on LGBTQ Life: Why sociologists should study the South, rural queers, and ordinary cities”, Sociology Compass, vol. 12, no 11, 2018, pp. 1-15.
VALENTINE Gill, “Negotiating and Managing Multiple Sexual Identities: Lesbian Time-Space Strategies”, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, vol. 18, no 2, [Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), Wiley], 1993, pp. 237-248.
