Authenticating Queer Space: Citizenship, Urbanism and Governance

Bell, David; Binnie, Jon

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“…Chang [50] particularly argued a (Northern) focus on marriage rights as a form of neocolonialism dominates global LGBT activism. Further, geographer Jon Binnie critiqued Altman's creation of the "other" to global gay or transgender subjects within his assertion of a cosmopolitan discourse [47,53]-where those with non-realised diverse LGBT identities were to be cast as duped by their own lack of consciousness and localised cultures [47]. Binnie writes of a "general failure (...) to adequately address questions of nationalism" [47], arguing that Queer Theory and post-modernism have more to offer accounts of globalisation than liberationists like Altman, Warner, and Drucker allowed.…”

Section: Southern Queer Perspectives and Key Informant Interviewsmentioning

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Researching and Working for Transgender Youth: Contexts, Problems and Solutions

Jones

2016

Social Sciences

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Abstract:In May 2016, two events epitomized the complexities of working for global transgender youth rights. First, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) hosted a ministerial event in which education ministers from around the world released a call to action for protection of students on the basis of their gender identity and expression in schools. Second, the United Nations (UN) hosted an event celebrating the family, attended by conservative ministers and activists who mobilized family protectionist discourse against transgender students. This article contemplates, in light of transgender activist Raewyn Connell's Southern Theory contributions, the complexity of global research and work for transgender youth. It considers key informant interviews with 50 stakeholders in the global push for transgender student rights in education, including members of government and non-government organisations, and academics from Northern and Southern countries. Problems in aiding transgender youth at the global level included safety concerns, the impacts of conservative advocates and media backlash (within family and national protectionist discourses), cultural complexities hampering engagement and translation, dissemination hindrances pertaining to established publishing biases, and financial and collaboration barriers. Solutions including virtual work; multi-level leadership; alliance-building; representation; visibility of transgender youth citizenship and family membership; and legal, financial and capacity-building aid are considered.

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Section: Southern Queer Perspectives and Key Informant Interviewsmentioning

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Researching and Working for Transgender Youth: Contexts, Problems and Solutions

Jones

2016

Social Sciences

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“…These observations also suggest that 'assimilationist' approaches to gay culture and sexual normativity may work to reinforce class and race-based inequalities (see Bell and Binnie, 2004;Oswin, 2008). The presence of 'queer space' in this context is internally differentiated through the heterogeneity of its users but is also connected with multiple structures of power that transcend binary or simplistic classifi cations of sexual identity or the privileging of sexual identities over other categories of difference.…”

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Queer Ecology: Nature, Sexuality, and Heterotopic Alliances

Gandy

2012

Environ Plan D

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Abstract. This paper explores the interdisciplinary terrain of 'queer ecology' by using the example of an urban cemetery in North London as an empirical and conceptual starting point. Though the term 'queer ecology' has cropped up a few times it has yet to be addressed directly in order to consider how the seemingly disparate fi elds of queer theory and urban ecology might benefi t from closer interaction. It will be suggested that the theoretical synthesis represented by queer ecology serves to expand the conceptual and material scope of both fi elds: queer theory is revealed to have only a partially developed engagement with urban nature whilst critical strands of urban ecology such as urban political ecology have yet to connect in a systematic way with queer theory, posthumanism, or new conceptions of complexity emerging from within the science of ecology itself. It is concluded that queer ecology may enrich our understanding of both urban materiality and the role of metaphors in urban theory. In particular, the idea of queer ecology illuminates the possibility for site-specifi c 'heterotopic alliances' in the contemporary city.

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“…Lesbianas y gays han sido con frecuencia representados como los pioneros de la gentrificación (Knopp, 1990;Lauria y Knopp, 1985) y como ciudadanos modelo para el consumo (Bell y Binnie, 2004). Mientras algunos autores critican la comercialización de las luchas LGTB (Bell y Binnie, 2004;Duggan, 2003), otros, como Hoggart y Woltersdorff (citados en Binnie, 2014: 245) ofrecen una perspectiva más ambivalente respecto a la relación entre la política LGTB y el neoliberalismo. Entre los efectos de esa relación se encuentra el de la exclusión de determinados sectores LGTB como consecuencia de la predominancia del consumo (Zukin, 2008;Peñaloza y Venkatesh, 2006;Binnie, 2014).…”

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Protesta, mercado e identidad en las celebraciones del Orgullo LGTB en España

Grau

2017

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On the first Saturday of July, Madrid hosts the State LGTB (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) Pride Demonstration with participants from LGTB activist groups, trade unions, political parties, NGOs and entrepreneurship. It involves around one million people and generates a profit of around 110 million euros. The participation of commercially sponsored floats along with the large influx of tourists that visit Madrid feed the discussions on the commercialization of the event and on the relationship between neoliberalism, identity and protest. These debates refer to the old tensions between critical activism and assimilationist activism. This article is based on a continued ethnographic fieldwork that combines participant observation, digital ethnography and in-depth interviews. We propose that the tensions between protest, activism, market and spectacle can be productive -as the Spanish LGTB movement has proved-and can create a new landscape of inclusive, hybrid and vindicating identity conceptions. Key words:LGTB identities, marketization, new models for protest, hybridization. Resumen: El primer sábado de julio Madrid acoge la Manifestación Estatal del Orgullo LGTB (Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales y personas Transgénero) en la que participan grupos activistas LGTB, partidos políticos y sindicatos, ONG y grupos empresariales. Asiste aproximadamente un millón de personas y genera unos beneficios que rondan los 110 millones de euros. Las carrozas esponsorizadas por empresas y la gran afluencia de turistas que recibe Madrid espolean los debates sobre la mercantilización de este evento y sobre la relación entre neoliberalismo, identidad y protesta. Dichos debates se inscriben en las tensiones entre el activismo identitario crítico y el asimilacionista. En este artículo, que se basa en un trabajo de campo etnográfico continuado que combina observación participante, etnografía digital y entrevistas en profundidad, proponemos que la tensión entre protesta, activismo, mercado y espectáculo puede ser productiva -como el movimiento LGTB ha demostrado en España-y puede generar concepciones identitarias inclusivas, híbridas y reivindicativas. Palabras clave: identidades LGTB, mercantilización, nuevos modelos de protesta, hibridación. Sociales, núm. 73, 2017 Desde 1977, año de la primera manifestación por la liberación homosexual del Estado español, hasta la actualidad, el activismo LGTB en nuestro país ha sufrido importantes cambios, muchos de ellos como consecuencia de los avances legislativos obtenidos, como la legalización del matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo en 2005. Esos cambios se pueden trazar a partir del estudio de las manifestaciones por la liberación homosexual/ Orgullo LGTB, pues éstas suponen la mayor y mejor expresión de visibilidad del colectivo LGTB, además del "acto activista LGTB por excelencia" (Toni Poveda 2 ). Las manifestaciones por el Orgullo LGTB tienen lugar cada año en más de 26 ciudades españolas como conmemoración de las revueltas de Stonewall (Nueva York, 1969). Entre ellas, de...

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Authenticating Queer Space: Citizenship, Urbanism and Governance

Cited by 298 publications

References 27 publications

Researching and Working for Transgender Youth: Contexts, Problems and Solutions

Researching and Working for Transgender Youth: Contexts, Problems and Solutions

Queer Ecology: Nature, Sexuality, and Heterotopic Alliances

Protesta, mercado e identidad en las celebraciones del Orgullo LGTB en España

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